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ALL MEMBERS »On Monday night I went to see Brett Morgen's Chicago 10, an animated/snatches-of-newsreel documentary on the 1968 Democratic National Convention riots and subsequent Chicago Seven conspiracy trial (the filmmaker rounded the seven up to ten to include attorneys Bill Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass as well as Black Panther leader Bobby Seale).
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWOne of today's top stories is the decline of housing prices in the Seattle area, where the average price has dropped 1.3 percent, comparing January 2008 with the previous January. It's the first such year-over-year drop since 1991. Not to worry, says The Seattle Times' story, "others across the nation fared much worse." Why "worse"? Shouldn't the term be "better"? Haven't we been deploring high housing prices for years, saying how they are driving off residents and preventing our children from ever returning to Seattle? Why don't we think of dropping prices as a blessed public good?
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An Obama supporter and scarred veteran of many Democratic nominating contests outlines the political calculations that keep Clinton's hopes alive.
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Washington state's parties are looking for the silver lining in the top two primary system, but they're not going to find it.
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