Category: Politics
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Last Minute Voter’s Guide
We throw down our last-minute voting guide for the lazy, the perplexed, the poor, the huddled masses.
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Following Jenny’s Money
Who’ll be truly empowered in Seattle City Hall during a Jenny Durkan mayoralty? Jeff Stevens follows the money.
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Canada’s NAFTA Labor Plank
While the U.S. promises to “renegotiate” NAFTA to their own benefit, Canada has other ideas, including progressive labor rights. Dean Baker writes.
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DHS Should Stop the Social Media Surveillance of Immigrants
Why is the Department of Homeland Security keeping a permanent database of naturalized citizens? Sophia Cope looks below the hood.
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Speaking of Independence is Getting Harder for Hong Kong
After pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong last week comes the inevitable backlash. Oiwan Lam reports.
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Radical Women Celebrate A Half Century of Hell-Raising
R.V. Murphy delves into the fifty-year history of Seattle’s feminist collective, Radical Women.
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Can We Pay for Single Payer?
What’s the real cost of single-payer healthcare, economically and politically? Dean Baker lays it down for you.
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Amazon in Review: What the Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Tells Us About Antitrust Law
Enforcement of antitrust in the United States has been weak for decades. Do we need something else? Harold Feld writes.

