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| How Twitter Amplified An NRA Lobbyist's Comments | Supporters of a Washington gun control measure on the November ballot may have just gotten a mid-summer boost. They’re capitalizing on an audio recording that recently surfaced. |
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| Does It Matter If Few People Vote? | Ross Reynolds talks with Todd Donovan, professor of political science at Western Washington University, about whether low voter turnout can ruin an election. This is ahead of the election on August 5, in which Seattle voters will decide whether to create a permanent taxing district for city… |
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| NRA Lobbyist Comments Attract Controversy | Supporters of a Washington gun control measure on the November ballot may have just gotten a mid-summer boost. They’re capitalizing on an audio recording that recently surfaced. They say it captures the NRA’s Northwest lobbyist mocking Jewish people who support stricter gun laws. Olympia… |
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| 6th District Senate campaign likely another expensive race | The 6th Legislative District is bound for another expensive campaign season, as Democrat Rich Cowan challenges incumbent Republican state Sen. Mike Baumgartner in November. Although they are the only two candidates in the race, making the Aug. 5 primary election almost inconsequential,… |
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| Governor appoints Carly Roberts as new ²ÝÁñÉçÇø student trustee | |||
| From Window magazine: 'Presidential Wordsmith' | |||
| Managing Conflicts in India: Policies of Coercion and Accommodation | In managing violent rebellions, democracies must often choose between coercion and accommodation. As the world’s largest democracy, India is no stranger to this trade-off: it has struggled over the past several decades to address several domestic insurgencies. A new book by Bidisha Biswas… |
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| Tea Leaf Nation: There were many Tiananmens | Twenty-five years ago in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, a group of small-town high school students listening to shortwave radio heard news of a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators nearly 1,000 miles away in the capital of Beijing. Although it was late at night and pouring… |
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| Put a Label On It: It’s Oregon’s turn (again) to debate the labeling of GMO foods | There’s much to talk about in Ashland—a southern Oregon winter so dry that, for the first time in 50 years, the local ski mountain failed to open, or the fare at this year’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival. |
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| Redistricting: Some states tried to leave out partisanship | A few states have turned to independent or arms-length commissions to limit political influences when redrawing congressional and legislative districts. |