One key aspect of Maddesyn George’s case exposes legal legacies of colonialism that exist to this day, and prevent Native victims of violent crimes from holding perpetrators accountable.
A Southern California oil spill that sent an estimated 144,000 gallons of crude oil gushing into the Pacific Ocean last weekend added pressure on the Biden administration to take meaningful action on carbon-based fuels.
This week we discuss the tremendous challenge of climate change and the impacts of that challenge on mental health — especially the mental health of young people, who will bear a disproportionate trauma and hardship from our collective inaction.
The 4,000-plus people who gathered at Riverfront Park last Saturday for an anti-mask-and-vaccine-mandate “Rally for Medical Freedom” marched with signs that had messages like “Don’t Drink the Cool-Aid [sic],” “My Body My Choice #freedom,” and “Coercion is not Consent.”
On this week’s episode, we speak with Jeff Ketchel, Executive Director of the Washington State Public Health Association, about the state of public health 18-plus months into a centenary pandemic.
This week, in the wake of a horrific tragedy, justice activists pushed the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women into the spotlight of online discourse, if not national news coverage.
Many of our local law enforcement officials have expressed concerns about a set of new laws (HB 1310, HB 1054) that, among other things, require stricter standards for probable cause when detaining someone, require de-escalation during encounters, ban chokeholds and significantly restrict the use of
