In search of powerful citizenship? Try Civic Saturday Civic Saturday is the brainchild of Eric Liu and Jená Cane, co-founders of the Seattle-based non-profit Citizen University. They call it the civic... John O'Brien
The antidote for America’s fractured democracy? More democracy! Before Chris Hayes became an Emmy Award-winning MSNBC host and a best-selling author, he was a kid trying to navigate New York City in the 1990s. His... Sonya Harris
Still crazy about Betty MacDonald after all these years There are many reasons to be thankful for the life and work of author Betty MacDonald. If you have a love/hate relationship with chickens, her best... John O'Brien
A onetime Vietnamese refugee on the complex road to American greatness Before Viet Thanh Nguyen became the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel “The Sympathizers,” he was a 4-year-old boy uprooted from war-torn... John O'Brien
How to keep young readers from ditching Dickens and chucking Chaucer Breaking up with Shakespeare? Done with Dickens? Between misrepresentations, boring language, and distracting covers, reading classical literature can... Soraya Marashi Zuheera Ali Milla Espinoza
Two professors prove that you don't know how a toilet works Bill Radke talks with professor Philip Fernbach, co-author of the new book "The Knowledge Illusion ," about how people don't know nearly as much as they... Bill Radke Shane Mehling
George Saunders: What happens when you die? What happens when we die? Writer George Saunders speculates on what happens to Abraham Lincoln’s young son Willie when he dies in his first novel ... Ross Reynolds
John Lewis on a life committed to change, and the change still to come In 1963, John Lewis was 23 years old when he addressed a crowd of over 200,000 people at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Lewis was already... John O'Brien
Roxane Gay on strong women (and other brilliant things she says) “What did you have for breakfast this morning?” It was a question to set microphone levels, the first question put to Roxane Gay, feminist-writer rock... Jeannie Yandel
Nancy Pearl says you're never too old for picture books Despite the allure of technology, librarian Nancy Pearl says picture books still draw in readers of all ages. She tells KUOW's Marcie Sillman about two... Marcie Sillman
