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Democracy Vouchers: Will Voters Renew the Experiment?

Politics Jean Godden - April 23, 2025 0

The “Honest Elections” promise of “keeping big wealth out of politics” was thus not fully realized. It fell victim to the Citizens United decision that permits PACs to spend unlimited amounts.

International

Trump Said he’d End the Ukraine War in a Day. There Have Been 92 of Them While he’s been President

Carol J Williams - April 22, 2025 4

Politics

Canada’s Restless West

Joel Connelly - April 21, 2025 2

Education

Gentler Time: When a Rookie Teacher was Tossed into a Brooklyn School

Spider Kedelsky - April 20, 2025 3

Politics

Fifth Column: The Right Wing Think Tank behind Subversion of the Justice Department

Nick Licata - April 19, 2025 6

Politics

America is Losing its Superpower: The World’s Trust

Jean Godden - April 19, 2025 3

Books

Wake Up Call: Opposition in the Trump Era

Anthony B. Robinson - April 18, 2025 4

Politics

Democracy Vouchers: Will Voters Renew the Experiment?

Jean Godden - April 23, 2025 0

Fifth Column: The Right Wing Think Tank behind Subversion of the Justice Department

Nick Licata - April 19, 2025 6

America is Losing its Superpower: The World’s Trust

Jean Godden - April 19, 2025 3

Olympia Report: The ways Legislators Are trying to Raise Money

Sara Kassabian - April 18, 2025 0

More Politics

The Sculptor who made Seattle Center’s Controversial “Doughboy”

Junius Rochester - April 17, 2025

A Blind Pianist and an Uzbek Conductor at the Seattle Symphony

James C. Whitson - April 10, 2025

The Seattle Symphony’s New Music Director Takes a Bow

Theodore Deacon - April 2, 2025

Only Murders in the Building: A House-full of Enablers

Anthony B. Robinson -

Passing Through: Some Writers Who Stopped Here

Junius Rochester -

Review: Pianist Jeremy Denk makes his Case for Bach

James C. Whitson -

When Alice B. Toklas Lived in Seattle

Junius Rochester -

More Arts

PULSE

Central Player: How the Timber Economy Made Washington State

Junius Rochester - April 22, 2025 1

Join Us for a Discussion of Local Journalism this Wednesday

Linda Kramer Jenning - April 21, 2025 2

The Sculptor who made Seattle Center’s Controversial “Doughboy”

Junius Rochester - April 17, 2025 1

The Aspirational Birth of Washington’s University

Junius Rochester - April 12, 2025 2

My Personal Deficit Solution: Tariffs for All!

Steve Clifford - April 11, 2025 3

A Blind Pianist and an Uzbek Conductor at the Seattle Symphony

James C. Whitson - April 10, 2025 0

Mary McCarthy’s Unfond Memories of Growing up in Seattle

Junius Rochester - April 6, 2025 2

Central Player: How the Timber Economy Made Washington State

Junius Rochester - 1

International

Trump Said he’d End the Ukraine War in a Day. There Have Been 92 of Them While he’s been President

Carol J Williams - 4

Politics

Democracy Vouchers: Will Voters Renew the Experiment?

Jean Godden - 0

Arts

The Sculptor who made Seattle Center’s Controversial “Doughboy”

Junius Rochester - 1

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Wendy Liu - January 9, 2025 9

As The New York Times characterized it, this is a case of threats to national security vs protection of free speech.

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Jean Godden - 5

A Year Later: What to do about the Dobbs Abortion Setback

Jean Godden - 3

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Junius Rochester - March 17, 2025

What Trump’s Hiring Freeze means to our Stressed National Parks

Joel Connelly - February 13, 2025

The Battle for Preserving Hells Canyon

Joel Connelly - January 27, 2025

Hoaxes and Blaming and Climate Change, Oh My!

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Monument-Building: Biden Protects 100s of Millions of Acres of Offshore Land on his Way Out

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Washington is Home to Some of the Nation’s Largest Trees

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Trashing the Planet with Plastic

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Cities

An Unusually Painful Process: City Council Votes For SoDo Housing

Mike Merritt - April 8, 2025 7

It was a surprising defeat for the Port of Seattle and its longshore union allies, who had turned back housing and commercial development there for about 20 years, as well as stopping Hansen’s basketball arena project.