The Record

Climate change debates, carbon offsets, and embracing a family’s transformation.

Tricksters of stage, screen, and western Seattle. One business owner on homelessness in SODO. Missing faces at the Seattle International Dance Festival. And what does it mean to travel in an unequal world?

Everyone’s favorite reprobate. Co-ed cheers at Seahawks games. Doug Baldwin on public discourse. And Sara Porkalob on the shape of trust.

Counting the Seattleites living in their vehicles. Engaging with round earth skeptics. And reliving the dread of school dress codes.

Should we wait on backyard cottages and let the voters decide? Amazon calls in union labor. With unemployment so low, why does Seattle have such a homelessness problem? And Karen Russell looks at elsewhere through the lens of here.

Why Don’t We Go For What We Say We Want: Political Centrist Edition. So is socialism the answer instead? And why aren’t people going into the trades?

"The Office" actor joins us to talk about his hometown. Plus, should the Seattle City Council make a major rezoning decision 5 months before the election? How did a bear swim to Orcas Island? And how the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is trying to reach younger audiences.

High anxiety: meet huge, phenomenal, amazing joy. Personalized love notes to Jeff Bezos at the Amazon shareholders meeting, and a check in about Amtrak. Lastly, the notes and the silence in the Fremont bridge.

Why America needs to get on the couch. What to call the sleek, squared surfaces that loom large in the Seattle suburbs. And a look at Four Women, from the vantage point of Nina Simone.

Our shift from a culture of character to a cult of personality. We ask MOHAI’s Clara Berg again: is Seattle fashionable? One reporter looks deeply at domestic violence. And high school students take what might be their last stand.