Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
Stories
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Think data privacy is dead? Try replacing the word 'privacy' with 'consent'
"Mr. Zuckerberg, would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?" Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seemed taken...
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Bringing the migrant crisis home, one impossible monument at a time
Last Saturday’s biological weapons attack in Syria set off yet another wave of involuntary migration. Lebanese-American artist Mary Ann Peters says that...
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This reason for the City of Seattle's gender wage gap may surprise you
April 11 was a rather unfortunate holiday: Equal Pay Day. It's the day when a woman's salary catches up to what the average man earned in the previous...
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Mr. Zuckerberg goes to Washington
In the wake of revelations that the data of 87 million users was exposed to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg...
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'Epic Works' light up Seattle
The cherry blossoms have emerged - and so has the artwork of Michael Spafford. The prolific painter has simultaneous shows in three galleries, and a...
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Should you #DeleteFacebook? More importantly: can you?
#DeleteFacebook is trending right now… on Twitter. And that’s part of the problem, says Abby Ohlheiser. She reports on digital culture for the...
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How Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy lives on in King County
Fifty years ago today, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. Decades later, a motion passed in the King...
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Is the Sinclair Media anchor script 'extremely dangerous to our democracy'?
Seattle’s KOMO and other local affiliates were swept up in controversy after they were required to read a script written by the conservative Sinclair...
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Tara Westover, author of 'Educated, A Memoir' on being raised by religious radicals
Tara Westover grew up in Idaho in a family that practiced a radical form of Mormonism. She never went to school, never saw a doctor, and studied her way into Brigham Young University at 17.
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Is Amazon really skirting antitrust law?
In 1890, the Sherman Act was passed. Its purpose was to preserve a competitive marketplace against potential consumer abuses. But the law isn't supposed...