Civics and Culture

"Tony!!!" "Hey hey, how's it goin'?" "The man of the hour! Good to see you, my friend. How's it been today?" Tony is the vet mentioned here,...

I'm riding home from Sea-Tac with a dear friend of mine. The last train headed for downtown has already left for the night, and...

When we write about cities, sometimes we do best when we take the metrics away.   In 2011, amid a visit to San Francisco and just...

  I feel like I see so many fragments of universes, the visible tips of deep and storied lives, icebergs whose temperatures and histories we...

On the incredible 3/4 A young man on the other side of Jefferson makes a noise. It's Jermain (from here and here, among other stories). He yells a...

I think her name was Katherine, on her way to a haircut. She was up front, just boarded, watching bright-eyed as I greeted the...

  "How you doin'?" I ask her at Campus Parkway inbound. It's nearing midday, sunny, on a half-full 70. "Swell," she says happily, sounding surprised to...

Several months ago I wrote about why tech workers should care about housing issues. I argued that the tech industry can’t help but alter...