Rookie Seattle police officer Daniel Perez Puga, 25, received a 15-day suspension for threatening to slash his ex-girlfriend’s tires and a series of alleged DV incidents in 2020 and 2021, according to a report released by SPD’s oversight body on Thursday. The report quotes a text from Puga warning her…

After a long series of hearings filled with many frustrating episodes of foolishness from the Republican opposition, Ketanji Brown Jackson was finally confirmed as the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court. It’s a moment as historic as it is inconsequential. Of course, that’s no knock on Jackson…

Last Friday, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush stopped by a Ukrainian church in Chicago. When they got there, the two former presidents delivered a bouquet of sunflowers, the country’s national flower, along with some remarks denouncing Russia’s “unjustified and unprovoked” invasion. …

A man who was mistakenly held at gunpoint and handcuffed by Seattle police responding to a hoax suicide call in 2018 is suing the city for physical and psychological damages, according to documents filed on July 29. The plaintiff, Reymon Leavell, is a man with visible physical and mental disabilities…

In 2018, Robert Bowers carried out the deadliest antisemitic hate crime in US history, killing 11 Jewish worshippers in Pittsburgh. He chose the Tree of Life synagogue as the target for his massacre because of its work with refugees. …

Capital freely crosses borders — people should too. — News about the thousands of Haitian refugees at the Texas border has dominated the national conversation in the past week. On the margins of the standard mainstream discourse about immigration reform, there has been a parallel discussion on the left about abolishing borders altogether. …

The Democrats are the party that stands for immigrants and other marginalized groups — so long as there are no political costs involved. During the presidential campaign, Joe Biden denounced the naked cruelty of Donald Trump’s immigration policy loudly and often. …

From Satanic panic to critical race theory, one psychological phenomenon helps explain why the right gets so riled up so fast. — A year ago, almost nobody knew what critical race theory was. This arcane academic niche was the dominion of a tiny group of left-leaning legal scholars until very recently. Today, it’s practically all conservatives talk about. Pundits rail against it from their bully pulpits on cable news. …

Our “awareness” is about as “raised” as it’s going to get. Now what? — The designer “Tax the Rich” dress that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore to the Met Gala sure pumped a lot of fuel into the ol’ discourse machine. Everybody had a take. Conservatives were calling it hypocritical. Critics to her left dismissed it as performative. …