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Arts & Life

Our Film Critic Explores Why The Harrowing Afghanistan Images May Feel Familiar

Bob Mondello reflects on the portrayal and the despair of Afghanistan's story, as shown on film for decades — in The Man Who Would Be King, Rambo III, Charlie Wilson's War, Zero Dark Thirty and more.
Bob Mondello
Government

A Seattle-area Afghan American reacts to ‘stolen hope’

‘Every time I think about it, I get super emotional, because I remember the time when my mom got off the plane. It was the first time that she had been back since she left, and she kissed the ground.’
Paige Browning

John O'Brien
'You can go to the Imam and the therapist.' Mental health in my Somali community

Talking about mental health in the Somali community is hard. There's a stigma — especially around seeking professional help. But mental health is something that many in the Somali community struggle with. RadioActive youth producer Kouther Ahmed shares a story from her community about why it's important to talk about your mental health.
Kouther Ahmed
A poem for my mother, a Vietnam boat refugee

At just 8 years old, my mom, Diem Pham, became a refugee of the Vietnam War. Her parents put her on a small boat, where she spent 10 days at sea and six months at a refugee camp in Malaysia. Decades later, I interviewed her about that experience, and wove her answers into a spoken-word poem.
Sah Pham
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.
Heidi Glenn
Arts & Life

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.
Hong Ta
Politics

'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.
Casey Martin
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.
Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
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.
Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong

Bill Radke
Arts & Life

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.
Katherine Banwell

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