Knute Berger Column

Who Was the Real Chief Seattle? A New Biography Separates Man From Myth

Who Was the Real Chief Seattle? A New Biography Separates Man From Myth

Knute Berger considers historian David Buerge's in-depth book that puts flesh on the city’s namesake

A new biography of Chief Seattle separates man from myth

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Progressive Northwest? White Supremacists Think It's the Perfect Place to Sow Hatred

Progressive Northwest? White Supremacists Think It’s the Perfect Place to Sow Hatred

Our progressive region may seem like an odd place for the alt-right. But Knute Berger explains why that’s a myth.

Here it is, 2018, and we’re talking about Nazis. It’s hard to believe. Divisions over race in this country suggest that the American Civil War is not yet settled more than 150 years after Appomattox. But there’s unsettling evidence that that isn’t our only unresolved war: We’re apparently still fighting WWII. The Pacific Northwest has…

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