With the public gravitating toward insular hostile camps, bipartisan cooperation is rare in our current politics. Mónica Guzmán building a bridge between such groups....
An interview with David Heath, author of Longshot, reveals that government, businesses, and many researchers discounted the science that made the COVID vaccine possible.
“Longshot: The...
In the last 12 months, Professor Jelani Cobb, a staff writer for the New Yorker, has authored three groundbreaking books on race in America. The Matter of...
Since the Sixties, college students have disrupted our politics and culture. On-campus, their activism has reshaped our higher education institutions; off-campus, they have expanded...
Originally published in the Seattle Times on 7/27/21
In opening Eric Dean Wilson’s book, “After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of...
Syndicated talk show host and bestselling author Thom Hartmann returns with a new book, The Hidden History of American Oligarchy — Reclaiming our Democracy...
Originally published October 20, 2019, in the Seattle Times
In Civilized to Death – The Price of Progress, author Christopher Ryan proposes the most controversial...
Hillary Clinton is the most famous woman politician of the twenty-first century, despite not becoming President of the U.S. Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel Rodham (Random House $28)...
Each discusses strategies on how the election could address minority and racial injustices that have long been ignored.
The recent killings of unarmed Black citizens...
I often read the inspiring tale of The Little Train That Could to my two-year-old granddaughter. When she gets older, I should read her Bob Wodnik’s...
Douglas Smith is a Seattle-based independent Russian scholar. His 2018 book, The Russian Job – The forgotten story of how America saved the Soviet Union...
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“Seattle's Medic One: How We Don't Die” by Dr. Richard Rapport can be read as an informative account of Seattle’s pioneering public health services,...
Gentrification is a natural byproduct of capital investments guiding urban development
Urban planners are either praised or criticized for designing our cities. Planner Samuel Stein’s Capital...