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Religion in America: Broken Bargains and Cross Purposes

Books Anthony B. Robinson - April 26, 2025 0

Author Rauch now sees Christianity, particular in the historic Protestant varieties that dominated America at its founding, as having been a “load-bearing wall” for American life and democracy.

Politics

Springtime in Olympia: Politically Charged Votes

Paul Queary - April 25, 2025 2

Religion

How Pope Francis Changed the Vatican

Joel Connelly - April 25, 2025 1

Sports

After Some Lean Years, Seahawks need a Score in This Week’s Draft

Art Thiel - April 24, 2025 7

Politics

Democracy Vouchers: Will Voters Renew the Experiment?

Jean Godden - April 23, 2025 0

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 9

Politics

Springtime in Olympia: Politically Charged Votes

Paul Queary - April 25, 2025 2

In a move likely to prove popular with Elon Musk haters, House Democrats passed a tax on the sale of zero-emission vehicle credits, which will fall almost entirely on Tesla in the short term.

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

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

Religion in America: Broken Bargains and Cross Purposes

Anthony B. Robinson - 0

Business

Seattle’s Port Faces a Cargo Slump

Mike Merritt - 5

Religion

How Pope Francis Changed the Vatican

Joel Connelly - 1

Politics

Springtime in Olympia: Politically Charged Votes

Paul Queary - 2

Sports

After Some Lean Years, Seahawks need a Score in This Week’s Draft

Art Thiel - 7

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Technology

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

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.

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

Reconnecting with our Technology Roots @ a Georgetown Museum

Tools or Weapons: What the Internet Hath Wrought

AI was Killing My Career. What To Do?

Health

blog

Blue City Blues: Getting Real on Involuntary Commitment

Sandeep Kaushik and David Hyde - February 28, 2025 2

Freddie deBoer is a cogent critic of recent ideological turns within blue city progressive culture.

The Impatient Patient: An Operating Manual

Joel Connelly - 10

“Incurring the Wrath of a Holy God”: Alabama Court Redefines “Children”

Jean Godden - 5

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

Jean Godden - 3

More Health

How Harold L. Ickes Saved Olympic Peninsula Forests

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!

Joel Connelly -

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

Joel Connelly -

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

Junius Rochester -

Trashing the Planet with Plastic

Joel Connelly -

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.