Interview
On Holidays
Journalist Elizabeth Becker tallies the environmental and social toll our vacations take (Read more...)
Filming poverty in Portland
Breaking the news
As a broadcast journalist, Carole Simpson overcame racism and sexism to tell the biggest stories of the day (Read more...)
War crimes
Historian and author Nick Turse unearths how the U.S. military’s savage policies brutalized countless Vietnamese civilians (Read more...)
Eve Ensler finds hope in healing
Tony-winning playwright Eve Ensler went to the Congo to help women whose bodies were ravaged by sexual violence. Then a cancer diagnosis led Ensler to reconnect with her own body — and the world (Read more...)
Nickelsville and the race for mayor
Rising up and dining out
Labor organizer Saru Jayaraman reveals why the treatment of restaurant workers ought to be the next front in our fight for food justice (Read more...)
Radical in Seattle: Aaron Dixon recalls life as a Black Panther
Aaron Dixon saw ‘the revolution’ close up when he was 19 years old and started the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party (Read more...)
Law of the Land: Roe v. Wade
Sarah Weddington won a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Four decades later, she’s working to educate younger generations (Read more...)
Evolution of an economist
Bainbridge Island economist John Perkins was hired to sell predatory loans to developing nations. Now he's urging business leaders to redefine 'profit' (Read more...)
