'Illegal' European immigrants targeted in Santa Monica
Because, after all, white people were the original illegal immigrants.
Judy Lightfoot
Judy Lightfoot writes about how the region's people confront a variety of challenges. She often draws on her weekly one-on-one coffees with individuals sharing our public spaces who are socially isola
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Seeing Venice through the eyes of Mary McCarthy
A Seattle writer in Italy finds terrific company in former Seattleite Mary McCarthy's 'Venice Observed.'
Crosscut Tout: Buy a birthday book at Open Books and support local libraries
One of only two bookstores in the U.S. exclusively devoted to poetry is celebrating its 15th birthday.
A Northwest internment story that still stuns the imagination
In "Camp Harmony," Seattle historian Louis Fiset tells how local Japanese Americans were sent to an internment camp, now the grounds for the Puyallup Fair, in the early months of World War II.
A cheerful scold about how things are made and discarded
Seattle native Annie Leonard studies the life cycle of consumer products, from mines and oil wells to mountains of waste, and calls on citizens to take greater responsibility.