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Civics and Culture

Book Awards Event, 10/12: Free & Open to the Public

Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, 7 – 9 p.m.Seattle Central Library, Level 1: Microsoft AuditoriumFree The title kind of says it all. It's like the Oscars,...

The Boring Truths (It’s Not That Bad)

This post is a care package for my colleagues and anyone else who was scared or otherwise put off by a recent spate of...

Sunday Video: The Real Cost of Cruises

https://youtu.be/0nCT8h8gO1g Hasan Minhaj explains the downsides of the growing cruise ship industry.

A Bus Driver Kind of Mind

Why do I love scruffiness, when I am not scruffy? Because these are the strangers who are consistently nicest to me, who treat me plainly,...

Midweek Video: Why Europe Doesn’t Build Skyscrapers

https://youtu.be/EVJ_rgEUSJE In this video, The B1M explains why European cities do not typically build skyscrapers while the rest of the world is increasingly doing so....

Sunday Video: Kelo v. New London

https://youtu.be/9eZKcPwWVgs Mr. Beat explains the famous land use case over eminent domain in Kelo v. City of New London.

Strife in the Afternoon: Nathan on Fights

It all started so innocently. Each person meant well, but each had a stress inside them, a bitterness, that they turned on the others...

UAW4121 Joins the Youth Climate Strike

As the human tragedy of Hurricane Dorian lingers over the Bahamas, fires devastate Indigenous lands in the world's largest rainforest, and democratic presidential candidates...