Kirsten Gillibrand might take a local experiment across the country. Is it possible to consume in a carbon neutral way? A look at how the values that made America great are now bringing America down. And what happens when the roller derby leaves your town.

Tia Powell tells us about how to focus on care over cure when it comes to dementia. We also look at how sea stars are making a comeback in the Salish Sea. And we talk to a University of Washington professor who's making "social emotional learning" a middle school class. Plus: How big money funders can "movement capture" small activist organizations.

How worried should you be when you look up? Is the Jeopardy! crown being passed to a successor? What exactly happened in the dark of the night in Olympia? And soon, cameras may be watching you from the supermarket aisles: how does it affect your privacy?

A state map in poems. Deportation flights in a sanctuary city. Is there an evangelical case for climate change activism? And what one Democrat thinks of impeachment.

How to survive a horror movie. The nuance Seattle is Dying may have missed. And when does political tolerance become political silencing?

The dangers of hard borders around identity. WA takes the lead as the cleanest state in the nation. A look behind the scenes of Nirvana. And a new city counselor – for now.

Not such a dreamy ride in the skies. One retailer results in more criminal charges for shoplifting than any other – and it’s not who you might think. Could we geoengineer our way to a cooler planet? And Ruth Reichl asks us to save her the plums.

The report is out: what does it tell us, and what doesn’t it say? What are we truly grieving when we mourn Notre Dame? Should we really be approaching mental health one day at a time? And a conversation about upzoning in Eastlake.

The stories behind the telescopes. How is youth mental health changing? We also chat with the man behind “Seattle is Dying” and a woman behind an attempted Seattle dating renaissance.

We all have them. And you might be able to learn more about yours if you take shame out of the equation. What would happen if buses of asylum seekers arrived in Seattle? Why is the 1040 so extra? And speaking to a megaphone of revolution.