December 2025 was marked by catastrophic flooding across Western Washington. Highways crumbled, levees failed, and homes were submerged. Roughly 100,000 people were displaced, and a fatality was recorded.

Eric Salathé, professor and department chair of UW Bothell’s School of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics and an expert in climate change, explained the root causes of the flooding. According to Salathé, as the environment has continued to warm, snowcaps melted faster, and what...

If you’ve ever searched for part-time work on the Ave or around the U-District, you know firsthand how difficult it is to find anywhere that’s hiring. Not only that, but if you do manage to land a job, you’re more likely than not to be met with conditions that are less-than-ideal — if not borderline exploitative.

These jobs are primarily staffed by students, which makes sense: Most of the people who live in the U-District, and near the Ave especially, are UW students.

College students are very...

The world was stunned upon the revelation of the satellite images of Sudan, where the bloodied sands were so prominent they were visible from space. But the horrors unfolding in El-Fasher are only a glimpse of the pain, trauma, and torture that the Sudanese people have endured for the last two-and-a-half years.

Nearly 13 million people have been displaced, and that number is rising. Many of their abandoned homes have been looted and destroyed. Famine and food insecurity are ubiquitous, leaving...