Tom Foley's death is a worthy time to think about the late 20th century transition in western politics. Foley was really the last of a generation of western politicians who could come from rural areas but support a progressive agenda, including on environmental issues. He...
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It's no secret that the United States has an aging and increasingly dangerous infrastructure. An embarrassment compared to Europe or Japan, Americans have decided that it is far more important.
Much credit to Seattle teachers at Garfield and Ballard High Schools for refusing to give a flawed standardized test to their students. Laura Clawson: The MAP appears to be a.
While it's good to see Oregon and Washington on this list, I recall argument in the early part of the decade that the UW campus was regarded as a less safe LGBT space than the rest of Seattle. This was in large part because of...
The people of the Evergreen State are really, really bitter about the Thunder advancing to the finals. Make sure you read below the lead headline as well.
Joshua Frank has a superb story at Alternet (I think it originally appeared in the Seattle Weekly) on the incompetent and dangerous nuclear clean-up procedures at Hanford, in southeastern Washington..
When this blog was launched nearly six long years ago, it was a Seattle-based blog, as all three 'founders' were graduate students in the political science department at the University of Washington. Shortly thereafter my two founding co-bloggers headed east to take tenure track positions...
Joe Posnanski points out the rather amazing statistical quirk that Washington's NFL franchise won't play a team that will have won a game until the seventh week of the season.
Consider: The Washington State Cougars are currently 1-10, with only a victory over Portland State to their credit. The Washington Huskies are 0-10, and likely to lose at Cal. The.
The Washington Post has a story today about Murat Kurnaz, a German man of Turkish origin who wasted away in Guantanamo for four years despite conclusive intelligence reports that he is not an enemy combatant or a terrorist. He was finally released in May 2006....