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David Harvey’s work over the years has looked at the economy in radical ways, linking how we earn and spend with, say, geography. Among his fresh frameworks is something called "spatial justice." Steve Paulson asked Harvey what he means by that.

The widespread view on the left that Marx had adopted an extreme productivist view of the human domination of nature—and hence had failed to perceive the…

How toxic containers lost in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Seattle Parks asking to phase out its gas-powered leaf blowers, and an anti-capitalist reading of a T.S. Eliot poem all chime together on this gray day.

And why is the new and very expensive Highway 99 tunnel closing this weekend? The answer, provided by Seattle Times' transportation reporter Mike Lindblom, basically comes down to this: It should not have been made in the first place. The tunnel has flaws "leftover from construction in early 2019" and it's also leaking. The whole Montlake Boulevard mess will also be closed this weekend due to construction. The things we do for cars, the things...