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Lindy West on being fat, internet trolls and cancer

BOOK REVIEW | In her memoir, 'Shrill,' Seattle writer calls people to task but also into dialogue If two people are sitting in broken chairs and they fall, who takes the blame? Is it the chair? Or the person? Seattle author and former staff wr ...

19 Sep 2016 - Aaron Burkhalter
How social services, tech are merging to help people on the streets

Apps like PDXShelter are cropping up nationwide to address gaps in services for people experiencing homelessness It seems there’s always “an app for that.” They range from the practical — paying for parking, communicating with friends, navigating a new ar ...

7 Jul 2016 - Rianna Hidalgo
Book review: Dorothy Van Soest explores foster care system’s responsibilities, challenges

The novel ‘At the Center’ portrays the vagaries of a bureaucratic system responsible for addressing society’s ills Sixty-year-old Sylvia Jensen is a veteran social worker and supervisor of a crucial program responsible for the placement of vulnerable chil ...

12 Nov 2015 - Joe Martin
The whale doesn't win: how the Navy used fear tactics to gut concerns about marine mammal health

After years as a loner adrift in his own world, Ken (Balcomb) had finally found a peer group and a mission,” writes Joshua Horwitz in his new book. Balcomb was the first to do in-depth studies of the various pods of orca whales that live in Washington’s P ...

25 Feb 2015 - Megan Wildhood
Foot soldiers of the Civil Rights era, past and present

History is written by the victors.” At least, that’s what a famous quote tells us. Trouble is, there’s no real agreement on who spoke or wrote those words. Maybe it was Niccolò Machiavelli, author of the 16th-century work of political philosophy, “The Pri ...

3 Feb 2015 - Rosette Royale
Children of the core; Jesse Hagopian discusses his new book on the drawbacks of standardized testing

If you’re not in some way involved with public schools, you may not be aware of the explosion of standardized testing in schools over the past 10 years. Preparing for and taking these tests has significantly affected teaching and learning on all levels in ...

28 Jan 2015 - Mike Wold
Integration of church and state: Mussolini and Pope Pius XI

The history of fascim in Italy has been too kind to the Roman Catholic Church and its leader at the time, Pope Pius XI. In his book “ The Pope and Mussolini,” professor David I. Kertzer provides a sharp corrective to the record in his groundbreaking, acce ...

9 Jan 2015 - George Howland Jr
Home, sweet anarchist home

In the late 1800s, three families pooled their resources to create Home, an anarchist community on a peninsula in Puget Sound where they embraced radical views and free love. Historian Justin Wadland writes about the radical experiment that went awry. In ...

6 Jan 2015 - George Howland Jr
Musician, actor, activist — Belafonte followed his own beat

One singer you won’t likely hear on a ’50s oldies station is Harry Belafonte, yet he was one of the most popular singers of that decade. He made a name for himself in the emerging folk music genre, with five gold albums between 1955 and 1963. For a time, ...

6 Dec 2014 - Mike Wold
George Packer on The Divided States of America

It’s hard to say just when it began, the unravelling of the American Dream. Did it start in the ’70s, with the slow dismantling of industrial jobs in the Midwest? Can it be traced to the era of Reaganomics, that time period in the ’80s of reduced governme ...

20 Nov 2014 - Rosette Royale