Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Crosscut blog posts of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Posted Thu, Jul 2, 6 a.m.
The Supreme Court ruling on the New Haven firefighters case, plus the Sotomayor hearings, bring back an issue that once divided liberals. Oddly, the President who started affirmative action was Nixon.
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Posted Sun, Jun 28, noon
It's National Grudge Week, and naturally Seattle is crowded with fun events.
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Posted Tue, Jun 2, 6 a.m.
The Canadian city, enjoying a renaissance, is pedestrian-paced and happy in its diversity. Seattle has urban islands, but in Toronto one fascinating ethnic quilt flows right into the next.
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Posted Fri, May 1, 6 a.m.
An editorial colleague recalls the joyous days of working for the Good Cause, when Bullitt, who died last week, was running the station in the 1960s.
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Posted Tue, Apr 28, 6 a.m.
The Seattle novelist and expert on Martin Luther King Jr. believes that Obama's election is a sea-change moment for America and the world. "So we have evolved in terms of our understanding that excellence is colorblind."
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Posted Thu, Apr 9, 6 a.m.
Can a Pacific Northwest utopia be shaped on the shared belief that nature is sacred? This latest installment in a series on regional identity looks at the patron saint of the environmental movement, John Muir, and how his thinking informs the desire for a new, greener, and elusive entity some call Cascadia.
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Posted Tue, Mar 3, 6 a.m.
The city has a reputation for being nice, but many agree that's a myth. So, why the cold shoulder to newcomers? Here are a few possible reasons.
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Posted Tue, Feb 10, 6 a.m.
God is making a slight comeback in the Pacific Northwest, no longer the most church-averse region in the U.S. Meanwhile, Big-Tent Obama is playing footsie with the seculars.
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Posted Wed, Feb 4, 6 a.m.
To deconstruct this city's personality, look first at its unique navel-gazing nature.
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Posted Fri, Jan 30, 12:18 a.m.
Despite a lot of anger at the 5-2 vote, the decision is likely to stick.
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Posted Mon, Jan 5, 6 a.m.
Our humorist offers a cheap alternative to last year's "staycation."
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Posted Mon, Dec 22, 6 a.m.
In a place where people show up at the opera in fleece, what should beauty look like?
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Posted Thu, Dec 18, 6 a.m.
You start with the obvious choice, Mavis Staples. Then there's the Chicago connection, and world music.
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Posted Wed, Dec 3, 1:19 p.m.
An effort to change the name in Chelan County has run into resistance, and the episode raises the quite complex issues of updating names to modern sensibilities.
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Posted Thu, Nov 27, 6 a.m.
Lines Ballet of San Francisco explores the commonalities of Chinese monks and modern American dance. Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance Theater dances across the intractable Israeli-Palestinian divide.
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Posted Sat, Nov 8, midnight
Painfully white but joyfully happy on election night, a party-goer is enlightened during the ride home.
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Posted Fri, Nov 7, midnight
Black history is now American history.
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Posted Wed, Nov 5, 12:59 a.m.
Savoring Sen. Barack Obama's achievement, and the grace with which he accomplished it.
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Posted Sat, Nov 1, midnight
He's a decent man who inherited more problems than he could turn around in his brief tenure, argues this UW alum.
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Posted Sat, Oct 11, midnight
The tragic, unintended consequences of Seattle's best intentions.
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Posted Wed, Jun 3, 6 a.m.
Excuse the term, but here's how the region breaks down in terms of class structure
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Statistics in Vancouver raise the question: Why do so many Chinese immigrants say they have no religion?
MOREPosted Tue, Mar 31, 4:31 p.m.
George came to Seattle with a poor plan, but he left with a good one
MOREPosted Thu, Feb 19, 6 a.m.
A snappy Atlantic piece brands us, again, as the pale place
MOREPosted Sat, Jan 3, 3 p.m.
Is Portland the "beardiest" city in America? Should Prince William shave his new whiskers? And what will the impact of a baby-faced Obama be on facial hair fashion?
MOREPosted Wed, Dec 17, noon 2008
African American poet Mona Lisa Saloy defends reading her poem "The "N" Word at Lakeside School.
MOREPosted Mon, Dec 15, 11 a.m. 2008
An African-American poet stirs up a Seattle private school by using a word that is "antithetical to Lakeside’s spirit."
MOREPosted Tue, Nov 18, 11:02 p.m. 2008
Some of the secrets of Norwegian Seattle revealed.
MOREPosted Tue, Nov 18, 10:53 p.m. 2008
There's progress to report on efforts to save two Seattle landmarks.
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