Blue City Blues: Getting Real on Involuntary Commitment
Freddie deBoer is a cogent critic of recent ideological turns within blue city progressive culture.
Thoughts and Prayers? Nah. Not when you can Spread Conspiracy Theories
A conspiracy theory, fabricated a far-right news site, was reposted on “X” — the former Twitter — by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, as well as by state Republican chair Jim Walsh and the Washington State GOP.
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Counter-Intelligence: Clean Your Surfaces
By the new sun, everything wants attention, the windows, the sills, your forearms, your pillows. It is time, metaphorically and literally, to clean your counters. Back to their bones, back to their very basics.
The Northwest’s First Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
One of the most popular teachers on campus because of his "Socratic" classroom method, Vernon Parrington quietly pursued his research, tended his garden, raised two daughters and a son with his wife Julia, and wrote prodigiously.
How Russian Explorers Led Exploration of the Northwest
Following Bering's discovery of sea-otter riches, an almost endless train of adventurers and brigands struck out from Asia for North America with wild dreams of staggering wealth.
Democratically Undemocratic? The UW Prof and his Critique of the US Constitution
Locally, the debate over Smith's book became so acrimonious (shades of today's attack on "woke" academies) that several state legislators in 1915 introduced an amendment to a University Appropriations Bill abolishing Smith's department.
Local Heroes: Steve Anderson, Master of the Hurdles
Upon entering the University of Washington Anderson's natural speed and athletic ability impressed the famous track and field coach Clarence S. "Hec" Edmondson.
The Art of Food Kitchens
These are charities that formed to engage the scandalous scale of today’s hunger problem. Working with insightful architects, both organizations have been able to build transformative facilities.
Back When Everyone had Shacks, Houses or Big Houses
One of the privileges of living past 80 is that we can remember a time when housing was not seen as a problem, and “homelessness” was not a word.
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