Politics and Government

Thursday’s vote against a pooled sovereignty arrangement, and in favor of a “go-it-alone” strategy suggests a new nationalism.

Tucked in a quiet corner of the UW Quad, Smith Hall is as peaceful as it gets on the Seattle campus. But walk inside and you’ll find torture, incarceration, and assassinations.

The United Kingdom has voted by a close margin to leave the European Union.

I-1515 would amend the state’s discrimination law so that public and private entities could restrict  “private facilities” to “biologically” male or female.

Americans often pay for their crimes twice — first with a prison sentence, then with a lifetime of debt many will never be able to escape.

Samuel K. Wasser, 62, a zoologist at the University of Washington, is a Sherlock Holmes of the wildlife trade. 

The United States has reinstated a broad system of debtors’ prisons, in effect making it a crime to be poor. Alexes Harris, associate professor of sociology at the UW, is quoted.

"A debtor’s prison of court fines and fees needs to be reformed," writes The Seattle Times Editorial Board. Alexes Harris, associate professor of sociology at the UW, is quoted.

Donald Trump's comments about Sen. Elizabeth Warren, calling her to "Pocahontas," have sparked a new discussion in the election dialogue.

The Marshallese community in Oregon hosted a Republic of the Marshall Islands-US Nuclear Legacy Summit over the Memorial Day weekend as part of its annual RMI Constitution Day celebrations.

UW professor Alexes Harris' new book examines how fines and fees keep people imprisoned long after their sentence is through.

Ron and Vanessa Ford are the parents of a 5-year-old transgender child. A recent UW study is referenced.

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.

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.

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.