News Podcast | A Seattle hotline supports sex trafficking survivors June Guzman and Audrey Baedke offer housing and emotional support through the nonprofit Real Escape from the Sex Trade (REST). by Sara Bernard / January 31, 2024
News Podcast | Why a WA mom's child support payments never arrived Reporter Brandon Block shares an example of how the state intercepts parental assistance to people who also receive TANF, or welfare. by Sara Bernard / February 7, 2024
News Podcast | Is the Washington Legislature ready to curb rent hikes? A Bellingham tenant and a housing advocate explain how steep rent increases are hurting state residents, and how HB 2114 could help. by Sara Bernard / February 13, 2024
News Podcast | Palestinian, Israeli women talk peace and hope amid war The two, who met years ago through a peace organization, spoke about their lives before and after Oct. 7 at a Town Hall Seattle event on Friday. by Sara Bernard / March 13, 2024
Mossback Podcast | Deadly avalanches that made Pacific Northwest history Back-to-back disasters in Washington and B.C. killed more than 150 people in 1910. Knute Berger digs into the traumatic circumstances and their fallout. by Sara Bernard / April 9, 2024
Politics When the debris crashed into her car, the world changed. And the law. In a new book, Maria Federici's story is told by her mother, Robin Abel, and writer Peggy Sturdivant. by Joann Byrd / June 17, 2010
Politics Gay marriage, the incremental approach All benefits (and punishments), just shy of the word "marriage" by C.R. Douglas / February 2, 2009
Politics Tim Burgess makes a fast start at City Council Tim Burgess failed the progressive litmus test. by C.R. Douglas / December 9, 2008
Crosscut's online journalism has print's caliber Why a newspaper person is now a Crosscut reader, supporter, and occasional writer. by Joann Byrd / September 26, 2010
Politics UW's freshmen all must read (gasp!) poetry The University of Washington by Joann Byrd / September 21, 2010