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As the Trump administration ponders launching what will no doubt be an expensive war with Iran – as well are proposing a record $1 trillion defense budget, it make me wonder what an independent Cascadia could do with all those wasted resources. Washington and Oregon together pay $37 billion more in
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Support my newsletter for just $5 per month Like others in my generation, as a child, I was sometimes spanked. It wasn't a regular occurrence, something only used in exceptional circumstances. But when it happened, it was terrifying. I remember times locking myself in the bathroom to escape
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Sign up for the free newsletter One day after a crowd of protesters defied a raid by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in a Latino neighborhood of Minneapolis, and several days after another crowd shouting "Shame!" surrounded ICE agents attempting to detain people at two restaurants
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In the past four decades, the Pacific Northwest has been a hotbed of musical creativity. Most of us know the trajectory of Nirvana and Seattle grunge in the 1990s, which produced memorable, noisy music from Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Mudhoney, and Screaming Trees. And a lot of us can point
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The Trump administration loves to create a phony crisis. No, the Tren de Aragua gang isn't taking over the US. There's no "energy emergency" that demands more oil drilling. And peaceful protesters challenging the genocide in Gaza aren't an existential threat to
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Sign up for the free Cascadia Journal e-newsletter by Andrew Engelson, Drew Alcoser, and Brandon Letsinger Earlier this month, there was a pivotal moment in Donald Trump’s four-month attack on democracy and the rule of law in the United States. When asked by Meet The Press interviewer
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There's a person who lives on my block in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood who regularly sits on the street corner and yells. It's an angry monologue, disjointed and incoherent, but sincere. She's a middle-aged black woman – and yes, this matters. I&
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At the westernmost point of what we now call Washington State, I like to sit and think about the past. Cape Alava is magical place where forests of Sitka spruce meet the rocky shores of the Pacific. It's a landscape where deer wander into the surf, tide pools
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Sign up for a free subscription Washington state is a crossroads. And governor Bob Ferguson and the legislature have chosen to take the path that dead ends in noxious weeds. Ever since the second Trump administration took power in January, they've engaged in a merciless onslaught of illegal
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Place names are heated political topic these days. After a decades-long battle to officially re-name North America's highest peak, Alaska's Denali, in 2015 – one of Donald Trump's first executive orders was to officially rename it Mount McKinley again. And the Associated Press
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On Monday, the US Supreme Court issued a 5-4 ruling that allows the Trump administration to continue to kidnap Venezuelan immigrants living in the US and send them to prisons in El Salvador without due process. It's just one of a thousand cuts this administration has inflicted