International interest in the Eastside real-estate market may pose the potential for zombie neighborhoods, already a worry in Vancouver. But trading ideas about the shape of urban life is a rich part of our history.
A new coalition of labor activists, politicians and state employees is working to make all state purchasing sweat-free. But the effort needs a push from incoming governor Jay Inslee.
The Northwest has a long history of promoting freedom in Russia. The latest anti-democracy moves raise questions about how to respond without causing more trouble.
When Scoop Jackson wrote the Environmental Protection Act, no one could have imagined how the Internet would empower activists to dig into something like coal exports.
Guest Opinion: If you look at one study, the easy assumptions that exporting coal will harm the climate could prove backward. Two Stanford researchers raise a point worth looking at.
Commentary: Washington state would be much better off if it did more to integrate immigrants into the education system, business and society. Here is an action plan for the new governor and Legislature.
Like many other cities, Seattle, Edmonds and Marysville are alarmed at the prospect of massive coal trains and their effects on communities. Compounding it all, tracks are already reaching capacity or nearing it.
Overshadowed by Egypt's and Syria's woes, the nation that launched the Arab Spring is now rising up against "moderate Islamists" who may be trying to smother its hard-won freedom. A Tunisian Seattleite who witnessed her homeland's historic election fears America's government is abetting and its media are misreporting the emergence of a new dictatorship.
After Dec. 7, 1941, the now-disappearing Greatest Generation saved democracy, but much that came out of the end of World War II also lies behind our greatest security threats, from Iran to North Korea.
Nearly 60 years after the fact, Japan is commemorating a group of Seattle volunteers who traveled to Hiroshima to build houses in the wake of the atomic bomb. This time with a new museum.
At age 87, Chuck Meachem Sr. recently returned to the Solomon Islands to support construction of a school to honor his comrades and the islanders who heroically helped them fight Japanese aggressors in World War II.
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N. Korea sentences Lynnwood man to 15 years in prison
With the rising Chinese dream propaganda, NPR asks Chinese citizens via Weibo — a China-based social network akin to Twitter — what their Chinese dream looks like.