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Civilized to Death – The Price of Progress

Originally published October 20, 2019, in the Seattle Times In Civilized to Death – The Price of Progress, author Christopher Ryan proposes the most controversial...

Book Review of Rodham – An Insight On How She Became President and He Did Not

  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)...

Three Books on the 2020 Presidential Election and their relevance to the Black Live Matter Protests

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...

A Very Stable Genius: Donald Trump’s Testing of America

William Galston, a Brookings Institution senior fellow, said that “we are a government of men and not law.” It has no force until people...

Book Review of ‘Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism’ by Sharyl Attkisson

One out of three adult Americans have no trust in our mass media, according to a September 2020 Gallup poll. Sharyl Attkisson attempts to...

On Fire by Naomi Klein

    Reading Naomi Klein’s new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, is similar to watching a mega-disaster movie in a theater....

Back on Track – Seattle’s Urban Light Rail Story

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...

The Russian Job – Book Review

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...

Seattle’s Medic One

/ “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,...

Capital City & Gentrification by Samuel Stein

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...

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