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How prison debt ensnares offenders
A new book by the UW's Alexes Harris (sociology) chronicles how scores of former inmates and the people they harmed are jointly cheated by a cyclical and cynical state-sponsored debt spiral.06/02/2016 | The Atlantic -
The necessary choice
The Greek economy has shrunk by a staggering 25 percent since 2006, and the unemployment rate closed at 24.4 percent in January and is predicted to rise after the new package of austerity measures.06/01/2016 | Huffington Post -
Airbnb bans N. Carolina host as accounts of racism rise
Airbnb banned a host in North Carolina Wednesday after he used racist language to tell a woman who had just booked a room she was not welcome because she was black.06/01/2016 | USA Today -
UW cuts social science TA jobs as more undergrads shift to math, science
College students are flocking to science and math, and leaving behind the social sciences, leading the University of Washington to cut teaching positions in history, political science and other fields06/01/2016 | Seattle Times -
The gay Cuban-American breaking barriers in Washington
University leaders might talk about the virtues of diversity but they don't often embody it.05/31/2016 | BBC -
'Jurassic Park' paleontologist retiring from museum he built
Jack Horner is leaving the Montana museum he spent decades filling with fossils from across the globe. Horner will help open the UW's new Burke Museum as a part-time research associate.05/31/2016 | New York Times -
It’s Not About the Moon: The Military and Economic Logics to South Korean Space Exploration
Ph.D. Candidates Clint Work and Seonhee Kim co-published a piece on developments in South Korea’s space program, highlighting the military and economic logics.05/31/2016 | Sino NK -
Opinion | South China Sea tensions: How do we know what's really happening?
"Here is the problem, simply put: there are not enough analysts to make sense of every ship or activity at sea; nor enough government assets to persistently monitor them all,"05/30/2016 | Forbes -
Geopolitics moves to center stage of Obama trade deal push
Trade supporters are pushing the geopolitical importance of a sweeping Asia-Pacific agreement in an effort to save the deal from defeat. Fabio Ghironi, professor of economics at the UW, is quoted.05/30/2016 | The Hill -
Diverse groups join forces against oil terminal
City councils, local businesses and Indian tribes have turned against plans for the nation’s largest oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver.05/29/2016 | Bloomberg