Post Alley | Seattle

Putting the Joy in Daily Life

Elsewhere Mark Hinshaw - August 16, 2026 1

The second half of summer is a time when Italian cities and towns come alive with festivals, street markets, night markets, and ceremonial competitions such as coordinated flag-tossing and group drumming in full marching formation.

Cities

Growth at any Cost? Seattle’s Sense of Place is at Risk

Iskra Johnson - August 14, 2026 58

Politics

Terms of Agreement: How the Democrats can Come Together

Dick Lilly - August 13, 2026 5

Sports

Mariners sure throw a Swell Party. Can they hit a Baseball?

Art Thiel - August 12, 2026 4

Journalism

Reporting or Propaganda? Why Listening to China Matters

Bruce Ramsey - August 11, 2026 3

Politics

Trump Outrage Watch: An Attorney General, A Pointless War, A Co-opted Post Office

Mort Kondracke - August 10, 2026 2

Politics

How the Republican Party found its way to Trump

Fred Jarrett - August 9, 2026 4

Politics

Under Fire: A Petition to Recall Mayor Katie Wilson

Jean Godden - August 15, 2026 3

There are questions and concerns over Mayor Katie Wilson’s actions, compounded by a troubling lack of information from the mayor’s office.

Terms of Agreement: How the Democrats can Come Together

Dick Lilly - August 13, 2026 5

Trump Outrage Watch: An Attorney General, A Pointless War, A Co-opted Post Office

Mort Kondracke - August 10, 2026 2

How the Republican Party found its way to Trump

Fred Jarrett - August 9, 2026 4

Washington State Primary Results Suggest Republican Wipeout

Chris Vance - August 7, 2026 19

More Politics

Arts

An Epic Odyssey: Who Gets to tell What Story When

Sally J. McMillan - July 25, 2026

Review: The Seattle Symphony Takes on Mahler Seven

Theodore Deacon - June 23, 2026

Is Trump’s Wreckage of the Kennedy Center an Opportunity for Something Better?

Douglas McLennan - June 4, 2026

LACMA’s New Museum: What’s the point of Art in a Museum?

Douglas McLennan -

Hijacking the Kennedy Center

Nick Licata -

The Once and Future Kennedy Center: An Architectural Story

Paul Kidder -

When “Better Than” meets “Good Enough”

Douglas McLennan -

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PULSE

Review: The Seattle Symphony Takes on Mahler Seven

Theodore Deacon - June 23, 2026 2

Murder Most Foul

Jean Godden - June 17, 2026 5

Post Up: Finally the Games 6.11

Post Alley - June 13, 2026 0

A Story for Memorial Day

Ted Olinger - May 25, 2026 7

Seattle’s Father Ryan Reports on his Meeting with Pope Leo XIV

Joel Connelly - March 20, 2026 5

Washington’s Women Trailblazers

Jean Godden - March 10, 2026 0

Seattle Mayor Wilson Makes Her First Serious Misstep in City Light

Jean Godden - March 6, 2026 25

Growth at any Cost? Seattle’s Sense of Place is at Risk

Iskra Johnson - 58

Elsewhere

Putting the Joy in Daily Life

Mark Hinshaw - 1

Politics

Under Fire: A Petition to Recall Mayor Katie Wilson

Jean Godden - 3

blog

Seattle Mayor Wilson Makes Her First Serious Misstep in City Light

Jean Godden - 25

Politics

Terms of Agreement: How the Democrats can Come Together

Dick Lilly - 5

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Technology

Datacenters over America: The Power Dance with AI (Part II)

Tom Corddry - July 23, 2026 2

Some in the industry have suggested that datacenters could be using 50 percent of today’s total electrical energy generation capacity by 2040.

Datacenters over America: Enormous Bets on Needs Unmet (Part I)

Trump let Nvidia Sell Advanced Chips to China. Here’s How Chinese Citizens are Reacting

Clock’s Ticking: Six Reasons Why TikTok Shouldn’t be Banned

The Big Sort: How Will AI Affect Submissions to Magazines?

Health

blog

By the Numbers: More Babies Than Ever are Homeless

Barry Mitzman - February 7, 2026 2

Based on data gathered by the University of Michigan, SchoolHouse Connection estimates that homelessness among infants and toddlers in the U.S. increased by 23 percent between 2021 and 2023.

How Governments have Caused Homelessness

Michael Caplow - 3

A New Book: Autism and a Fulfilling Life

Joe Martin - 2

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is Creating Havoc in Public Health

Joel Connelly - 2

A Happy Pooper is a Healthy Pooper

Barry Mitzman - 1

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Environment

Salish Sea Tribes say they want to take Control of National Wildlife Refuges

Al Bergstein - June 25, 2026

Oil Crisis? How about we Reduce Demand? Here’s How

James S. Russell - May 5, 2026

David Suzuki: Still Fighting for the Planet at 90

Joel Connelly - March 27, 2026

A Cryin’ Bloody Shame: DOGE and Storm Pummel Our Public Forests

Joel Connelly -

The Data: Breathing May Be Hazardous to Your Health

Barry Mitzman -

Reckoning with Northwest Flooding: We need to think about this Differently

Sydnee Chapman -

Dam it All: The Intractable Knots in the Snake River

Dan Chasan -

Cities

Growth at any Cost? Seattle’s Sense of Place is at Risk

Iskra Johnson - August 14, 2026 58

Not only are we not getting affordable housing, we are losing everything that has made Seattle a uniquely livable city.

Taking a Bite out of Seattle

Jean Godden - 1

SODO Housing Battle takes a New Turn

Mike Merritt - 1

Surveying Trump’s Damage to the National Mall

James S. Russell - 0

Only Suckers Pay?

Anthony B. Robinson - 3

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People

Inspired Mayhem: The Life and Lunacy of Adman Terry Heckler

Kathy Cain - July 26, 2026 4

Terry Heckler died on May 5 this year, a little less than a year after his friend and former business partner Gordon Bowker passed away. Their era is over but their legacy of inspired lunacy lives on.