Gen. McChrystal's Advice To Trump On Coronavirus: 'Fight It As An American Fight' Retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal's leadership guidance for managing the coronavirus crisis: instill confidence, tell the truth and fight it like a war.
RadioActive The secret diaries my grandma snuck out of a Communist prison in Vietnam My grandfather was a South Vietnamese soldier during the Vietnam War. After the war ended, the Communist government imprisoned him in an re-education camp. As a way to connect with his family, he secretly wrote letters, poems and stories.
KUOW Newsroom 'They betrayed us, stabbed us in the back.' Seattle Kurds protest U.S. withdraw from Syria Seattle's Kurdish community protested Turkish military strikes in Syria this weekend.
The Record Do media images of dead bodies make it harder for you to care? Interrogating our media consumption of images of the dead – whose bodies are shown, whose aren’t, and what (if anything) that will change.
The Record Poet Ocean Vuong's new novel is more than Briefly Gorgeous "To be queer is to fail into your pleasure." The book, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, is a letter from a son to his mother, who can't read. The poet says it's a monument to failure, to violence, to labor, to silence, to America.
Throwback City What's that big yellow box perched on Phinney Ridge? The air raid siren is about the size of a VW Beetle, weighs almost 3 tons and was loud enough to be heard a mile and a half away.
RadioActive My aunt was 16 when she ran off to join the Eritrean Liberation Front The Eritrean War of Independence started in 1961 and lasted for 30 years, until the Eritrean People's Liberation Front defeated Ethiopian forces in 1991. Nearly one-third of all soldiers in the Eritrean People's Liberation Front were women, including my relative, Akberet Asfaha.
Speakers Forum How Daniel Ellsberg learned to start worrying and hate the bomb The acronym MAD stands for mutual assured destruction. The concept has been a cornerstone of U.S. military security policy since the creation of nuclear...
RadioActive War destroyed our family. Facebook brought us back together. My great aunt, Milagros Ortiz, has an air about her that's warm and calm. Her laugh is loud, and when she speaks, it's right to your soul. In her house...
