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Tug of War: Covering the Crisis in the Middle East
CNN’s Tug of War podcast brings listeners into the heart of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Providing perspective on the attacks of October 7 and the subsequent outbreak of war, CNN reporters take us on the ground to document the escalating conflict and what it means for the rest of the world.
Advocates say Seattle’s $1.45B transportation tax isn’t enough
Within Seattle’s 84 square miles, repaving roads, building bike lanes, repairing sidewalks, maintaining bridges, planting street trees and generally keeping the transportation system functional is a multibillion-dollar proposition. For the past nine years, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has relied on a $930 million property-tax levy to pay...
AI is already impacting the 2024 elections. Experts are nervous.
Do you know President Joe Biden’s voice well enough to tell it apart from an AI imposter?. That was the challenge audience members were tasked with during a live taping of the Radio Atlantic podcast at this year’s Cascade PBS Ideas Festival for an episode about artificial intelligence’s potential impact on elections.
Mossback’s Northwest: Early WA eco-advocacy captured in color
On the Court, Douglas was a great advocate for wilderness preservation – helping to “save wild areas all across America from the Potomac to the Pacific,” Berger points out, but always retaining a special fondness for his Northwest roots. “In the 1950s,” Berger continues, “[Douglas] led a group of activists and enthusiastic hikers down the wild Pacific coast of Washington from Cape Alava to La Push … to protest a proposed highway down that coast.”
Podcast | The protest hike that stopped an Olympic coast highway
Today, more than 73 miles of Washington’s rugged Olympic Coast is still rugged. It’s accessible only to hikers, not cars. Part of the reason for that is a famous 1958 beach hike led by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice – and Washington resident – William O. Douglas.
ArtSEA: Seattle arts venues are putting a good face on it
If you’ve spent any time checking out the red carpet looks from the Met Gala this past weekend, you know the high-fashion museum fundraiser was aglow with sparkles and aflutter with curious headpieces. (I especially enjoyed the large bouquet hat plopped on Zendaya’s head, and hope to see people following her lead at Pike Place Market flower stalls this summer.)
Ta-Nehisi Coates on “apartheid” Israel and support for Gaza
Ta-Nehisi Coates said it took only one day into his 10-day trip across Palestine and Israel to call it what it is. “I first thought about it and said – well, these people have actually advanced past Jim Crow by segregating water itself,” said the prominent author and activist before the keynote crowd at Cascade PBS’ Ideas Festival. Coates, drawing on his experiences in the West Bank, was referring to an Israeli policy on water cisterns that he witnessed firsthand, effectively restricting Palestinian access to water resources and water-related infrastructure.
Your Last Meal | The Leftovers with Jesse Tyler Ferguson
If waiting two whole weeks for a new episode of Your Last Meal is way too long, we’ve got something to tide you over. On the weeks we’re not releasing a full-length episode of Your Last Meal, we’re airing The Leftovers, featuring never-before-heard audio leftovers from last week’s interview. Which means you will now be getting a little taste of Your Last Meal every single Thursday!
Tensions escalate between UW demonstrators and Charlie Kirk fans
A tense day on the University of Washington campus ended in a confrontation between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and fans of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk following his speaking event on the Seattle campus. Surrounding a barricaded east entrance to the Quad, where demonstrators have established their “Popular University for Gaza,” both Trump...
Mayor Bruce Harrell talks SCOTUS homelessness case and SPD culture
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell likes to look at every challenge from a variety of directions, including the perspective he gained growing up in Seattle in a multi-racial working-class family. Everything from his childhood and his education to his other life and work experiences have informed how he approaches the job...
The American economy is booming, if not in most voters’ minds
Poll after poll finds Americans overwhelmingly pessimistic about the state of the economy and distrustful of the elites in charge of steering it, although many tell pollsters their personal financial situation is OK. Perhaps the person most affected by the jumbled economic picture is President Biden, whose re-election chances hinge...
Podcast | Sitting down with Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell
The mayor of Seattle talked all things Emerald City in his recent conversation with Cascade PBS. Bruce Harrell was first elected to lead the city in 2021, though he had served as interim mayor in 2017. He also spent years on Seattle’s City Council, including as its president. Subscribe...
Confronting political polarization: Student protests to elections
University student protests against the Israel-Hamas war became the through line of discussion at last weekend’s Cascade PBS Ideas Festival. The topic filling newscasts and newspapers right now came up during conversations ranging from the 2024 election to racism in America today. And not surprisingly it was a focus of the live recording of the podcast Left, Right & Center, KCRW’s weekly politics show hosted by David Greene.
Moses Sun
At the end of a series of twisty hallways in the basement of a Brighton synagogue sits the studio of Seattle-based artist, curator and muralist Moses Sun. The large carpeted space feels like stepping directly into Sun’s mind. On one end, light beams in through the windows, filtered in such a way that a stack of Sun’s signature vibrant abstract paintings seem to glow.
From the practical to the policy in the national gun control debate
As you might expect, life and death came into the conversation numerous times during a session on gun violence at last weekend’s Cascade PBS Ideas Festival. From a somewhat gruesome description of Washington, D.C., trauma surgeon Dr. Babak Sarani’s work day, including data on the average holes in gunshot victims’ bodies. To the passionate declaration that ended Malcolm Gladwell’s live interview for the “Revisionist History” podcast.
Podcast | Listen in on the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival
This year’s Cascade PBS Ideas Festival has officially wrapped. But the insightful conversations that took place on May 4, 2024, are coming soon to a podcast app near you. To help launch this season of the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival podcast (formerly Crosscut Talks), host Paris Jackson sat down with events director Jake Newman to chat about this year’s approach to the festival, some of the luminaries who attended and what we can expect to hear in the coming weeks.
UW pro-Gaza encampment expands to over 100, remains peaceful
An encampment on the University of Washington campus has grown to more than 100 demonstrators after a second group set up a protest zone in solidarity with Gaza. Both groups are calling on the University to cut ties with Israel and Boeing. The initial encampment established Monday morning by UW’s...
The multimillion-dollar fight over WA’s cap-and-invest program
Bolstered by an almost $5 million war chest, supporters of Washington’s cap-and-invest program have begun their efforts to keep the state’s carbon pricing system, which is facing a November recall referendum. “We’re going to make sure we have the resources needed to defeat 2117,“ said No On 2117...
Mossback’s Northwest: Seattle loved Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show
Back before Taylor Swift filled stadiums on multiple nights, another touring show drew huge crowds. It was pure spectacle, part circus, rodeo, melodrama and pageant. It was the Wild West Show. The mold was set by William F. Cody — the frontier Barnum known as Buffalo Bill. A scout,...
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