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... Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Marcie Sillman
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... Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Marcie Sillman
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... Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Bill Radke
Coming out of the broom closet: Real life witches Are you a fan of "Harry Potter"? Or maybe Sabrina the Teenage Witch ? Ever wonder if witchcraft actually involves a wand and broom? Witch culture is... KUOW Staff
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... Bill Radke Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
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. Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Bill Radke
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... Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Bill Radke
Seattle's first-in-time rental law has been struck down. Who wins, who loses? If you’ve rented a new apartment in Seattle in the last year, chances are that you ran into the first-in-time law. It required landlords to rent to the... Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Bill Radke
'An active tide': swimming against the forces of pay inequity Starbucks claims to have solved the thorny problem of pay equity. At least in their current workforce. At least in the US. And this isn’t a final... Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Jeannie Yandel
Gardyloo! The lovable, hateable, fascinating English language "Moist." Did you get a little grossed out reading that? If so, you're not alone. Moist is one of the most hated words in the American English language.... Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Bill Radke
