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Unlike chimps, bonobos offer hope that maybe we can all get along

Chimps are notorious for hostility toward chimps from another group. Is that part of the human makeup as well? A new study of bonobos, our other closest relative, offers a more cooperative vision.
Ari Daniel
Tensions run high at UW pro-Palestine rally

The University of Washington’s Red Square echoed with hundreds of activists Thursday, chanting, “Free, free, Palestine, within our lifetime.” People climbed the railings of the Suzzallo Library and waved the Palestinian flag. Many held signs reading “Free Palestine.”
Natalie Akane Newcomb

Juan Pablo Chiquiza
Seattle passes grim milestone with record high homicides
Catharine Smith
A slightly sadistic experiment aims to find out why heat drives up global conflict

The subjects were assigned to one of two rooms: 68 degrees or a sweat-inducing 86 degrees. Then they were told to play a computer game that can bring out the worst in human nature.
Nurith Aizenman
How the PNW's history of far-right extremism played a role on Jan. 6

The extremist views behind the Jan. 6 insurrection have a long history right here in the Pacific Northwest.
Katie Campbell

Angela King
Examining the role of guns and violence in the American West

Bryce Andrews grew up obsessed with the cowboy lifestyle. As a kid his parents would drive him from Seattle to Montana, where he shot his first guns on the prairie with his godfather. He eventually moved out to the Montana countryside, a city boy trying to fit in as a ranch hand.
Libby Denkmann

Alec Cowan
Missed crime lab evidence could've stopped Green River Killer decades earlier, investigation finds

During the 1980s and 1990s, detectives struggled to catch the suspect known as the Green River Killer. But according to some new investigative reporting, the Washington State Crime Lab overlooked some key evidence that could have linked Gary Ridgway to the killings as far back as the 1980s, before he took more lives.
Kim Malcolm

Andy Hurst
Week in Review: Guns, gig workers, and carbon emissions

Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Insider’s Katherine Long, The Seattle Times Jonathan Martin, and Everett Herald’s Isabella Breda.
Bill Radke

Kevin Kniestedt
The Charleena Lyles settlement, COVID-19, and Mt. Baker Shootings, this week.

Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Seattle Met Deputy Editor Allison Williams, South Seattle Emerald Publisher and Seattle Times columnist Marcus Green, and New York Times technology correspondent Karen Weise.
Bill Radke

Alec Cowan

Sarah Leibovitz

Kevin Kniestedt
Seattle Mayor Durkan calls for more officers after string of deadly shootings

After multiple fatal shootings around Seattle that left at least five people dead, Mayor Jenny Durkan said that the city must support its police officers to keep up with the pace of crime. Durkan also highlighted new legislation she’s proposed to curb gun violence.
Casey Martin

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