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We've heard the jokes on late night about President Donald Trump taking on dictator-like qualities. But what is comedy really like under an authoritarian regime?

Seattle has gotten hot under the collar about the proposed head tax for homelessness services, and the debate continued today at another city council hearing. KUOW’s Amy Radil joined us live from the meeting with an update.

Have you been watching the videos from Hawaii — molten lava eating up telephone poles and cars — and then turning towards that big range of volcanoes we have in our own backyard? Could that happen here? We talk to Seth Moran, scientist-in-charge at the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, to see if we should live in fear of Baker, Rainier, St. Helens...

Would a tax credit that encourages businesses to donate to social services be more effective in solving the city's affordability and homelessness crisis than a new head tax? Bill Radke talks to Saul Spady, president of Cre8ive Empowerment (and grandson of Dick's Drive-In co-founder Dick Spady) about why he and other area business owners are against the proposed Seattle employee head tax.

Imani Sims is KUOW’s inaugural #NewsPoet – a program in which Pacific Northwest poets respond in verse to what the station airs. Below is an excerpt of her poem "Better than Captivity." Greet the open: surrender. Inhale hummingbird hymns. Play without apology. Loosen hips in red Silk. We have become Our ancestors whisper Against constellation sky. The inspiration was a Record segment on our discomfort with discussing race; the imagery was born of the Marvel film "Black Panther." To some extent,

After threatening to do so since early in his campaign, President Trump just took the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal. Europe has already expressed an intention to negotiate directly with Iran to keep the deal alive. What does all of that mean? Professor Resat Kasaba, head of the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies, explains.

Bill Radke talks to Resat Kasaba, head of the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, about President Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement.

Imani Sims is KUOW’s inaugural #NewsPoet – a program in which Pacific Northwest poets respond in verse to what the station airs. Below is an excerpt of her poem "Better than Captivity."

Last fall’s #metoo moment shone a light on what many women already knew: workplaces across all industries can be susceptible to toxic dynamics and sexism. One alternative is to build a workplace with no men.

Bill Radke discusses the stories that had people buzzing over the weekend, from a tweet by Jeff Bezos, to the new single from Childish Gambino. Our guests are Valerie Curtis-Newton, professor in acting and directing and head of performance at the University of Washington School of Drama, and Seattle politics blogger Mellina White Cusack, of The Seattle Conservative.