Seattle's missions to China, our key trading partner, mean coping with a powerful new force in global economics: state-driven capitalism. Conservative politics and our state constitution often stand in the way.
In a more connected world, even the most-favored regions need to improve their transportation systems and their ability to move goods and people, and to educate skilled workers.
How will the economy do this year? How will the economy impact presidential race? Is Seattle really in an economic growth zone? Here are some answers to your questions about 2012 for the our pocketbooks, the nation, and Seattle.
On the eve of a crisis meeting in Brussels, new data underlines the darker possibility behind the endless political wrangling: a lost generation of young people.
Radical U.S. environmentalists are out to get Canada! And seize the energy, oil, and wood businesses for the U.S.! Or, so a hypocritical government says.
Mazatlan meets Mahler, and two formerly frantic freelance viola players from Seattle find steady work and communal musical bliss in Mexico, where orchestras thrive while their counterparts in the U.S. are struggling.
Northeast Seattleites are cooking up momentum for a simple, cost-efficient technology that stops deforestation, greenhouse emissions, and lethal cookfire smoke. Why doesn't it get more respect elsewhere?
During the Velvet Revolution, the late Czech leader's speech was irresistible, even if you didn't understand the words. Then the crowd broke into a long-forbidden song.
Soaring emissions, especially in China; hopeful news from the Great Ice Age; dire forecasts from the IEA; extra-innings diplomacy at Durban. So whre's the coverage in our two "Times"?
Welcome to Kent, frontline for the forces transforming America's suburbs: poverty and hardship, global diversity, and exciting new energy and innovation.
A World War II fighter, George McGovern, who suffered a fall last week, went on to run for president as a peace candidate. He's stayed active in large part because he worries about the young people who are still being sent off to war.
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.