The Cost of Being Poor, as Told by Toilet Paper
The cycle of poverty isn’t just an abstraction. It’s about toilet paper…and boots. Sara Kassabian explains.
June 1, 1981: Domingo and Viernes
Seattle’s long history of labor strife has occasionally turned tragic. Jeff Stevens tells the story of the 1981 assassination of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes here at the Star.
As Opioid Epidemic Continues, Steps to Curb It Multiply
The overdose death toll from opioids has almost quadrupled since 1999. Charles Ornstein investigates ways to curb the trend.
User Content Platforms Take the Heat for Artists’ Struggles at WIPO
Electronic Frontier Foundation goes to Switzerland, where technology once again is being blamed for not keeping alive the industries it was designed to replace. The word from WIPO.
Namaste Inc.
Namaste for tourism. Ansh Patel explores the marketing of India to the Western bourgeois, who have been sold on the idea that their impressions will be made real by compliant natives.
Four things we can do now to unlock the cure for cancer
Creative Commons’ CEO Ryan Merkley continues the fight for cancer, with easy steps toward a real solution.
Transforming the Politics of Makeup
Umber Ghauri considers the path of drag in reclaiming identity.
Transforming finance can help to tackle the biggest problems of society
The current financial system is part of the problem, not part of the solution. So what’s to be done? Chris Hewlett writes.
May 4, 1969: Hit the Highway, Freeway
On this date in 1969, one of Seattle’s most successful citizen activist campaigns gathered crucial force in the Washington Park Arboretum. Jeff Stevens remembers avidly.
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