Category: Politics

Who’ll be truly empowered in Seattle City Hall during a Jenny Durkan mayoralty? Jeff Stevens follows the money.

While the U.S. promises to “renegotiate” NAFTA to their own benefit, Canada has other ideas, including progressive labor rights. Dean Baker writes.

Mark Taylor-Canfield makes his case for Cary Moon for Mayor.

Ariel Dorfman considers the worlds of the two Donalds.

Why is the Department of Homeland Security keeping a permanent database of naturalized citizens? Sophia Cope looks below the hood.

After pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong last week comes the inevitable backlash. Oiwan Lam reports.

R.V. Murphy delves into the fifty-year history of Seattle’s feminist collective, Radical Women.

What’s the real cost of single-payer healthcare, economically and politically? Dean Baker lays it down for you.

Enforcement of antitrust in the United States has been weak for decades. Do we need something else? Harold Feld writes.

A way to curb the redistribution of wealth to the 1%? Dean Baker considers.