Q & A Who watches the watchers? Lately, it’s been Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). Who watches Wyden? Zeke Johnson. Johnson is the director of Amnesty International USA’s Security with Human Rights More
Hotseat: Zeke Johnson
The Amnesty International activist applauds Ron Wyden—but says the Oregon senator needs to do more.
Q & A Who watches the watchers? Lately, it’s been Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). Who watches Wyden? Zeke Johnson. Johnson is the director of Amnesty International USA’s Security with Human Rights More
Hotseat: Michael Kazin
The editor of Dissent—and former Portland journalist—talks about the future, and naiveté, of the left.
Q & A In 1970, Michael Kazin wanted to get to Portland so badly, he hitchhiked his way across the USA. It took Kazin, then in his early 20s, a week to thumb it from New York to Portland, where he wrot More
Hotseat: Vanessa Timmons
She’s pressing Salem to open state pocketbooks for abused women.
Q & A Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence director Vanessa Timmons is fighting in Salem to get state leaders to combat domestic violence. And she wants them to do it with more money. More
Hotseat: Daryl Turner
The Portland Police union boss talks about the new order in City Hall.
Q & A Portland Police Association president Daryl Turner has a framed cartoon drawing in his office of him pulling the pants off a surprised Sam Adams.
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Hotseat: Baruti Artharee
The city’s new cops czar talks about making the police safer for his grandkids.
Q & A A lot of people in City Hall have interacted with police, but Baruti Artharee may be the only one who can say he’s had the business end of a cop’s gun pressed against his head. That was a lo More
Hotseat: Gary Johnson
The Libertarian candidate for president says he’s all about momentum.
Q & A Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president, isn’t going to win in November. But were... More
Hotseat: Leal Sundet
The union behind the slowdown at the port breaks its silence.
Q & A Leal Sundet says it’s bad enough that the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union is getting a raw deal at the Port of Portland. He thinks also it’s getting a bum rap. For more than a More
Hotseat: Rep. Peter Defazio
The Oregon Democrat talks about his disappointment with Obama and the cost of the CRC.
Hotseat: F.W. de Klerk
The Nobel Laureate and last white president of South Africa talks cultural identity and Obama’s prize.
Q & A In South Africa, F.W. de Klerk was an unlikely reformer. He had risen in that country’s white-minority power politics... More
Hotseat: Mikey Kampmann
Portland drops at the South Pole.
Q & A In late October, Mikey Kampmann left Southeast Portland’s Clinton Street neighborhood for a summer vacation of sorts. Kampmann, a 25-year-old comic and occasional Portlandia cast member, is sp More
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Hotseat: Cecile Richards
Planned Parenthood’s president on Congress, the HPV vaccine and why men use her group’s clinics. Dwight Holton
Oregon’s top federal prosecutor on the JTTF, Portland City Council and the iPad. Sarah Weddington
What the lawyer who argued Roe V. Wade in the 1970s now thinks about the women’s movement and Barack Obama. Hotseat: David Fidanque
The head of Oregon’s ACLU calls B.S. On JTTF. Marcus Griffith
The reporter who first called B.S. on the Bethany Storro acid attack. Hotseat: Jarrett Walker
A Portland transit expert says we shouldn’t fall in love with trains when buses will do. Hotseat: Tamim Ansary
Afghanistan-born author will tell Portlanders about another history—one that’s Islamic-centered. Rev. Mark Kiyimba
On the front lines of the fight for gay rights in Uganda. Tina Franklin
Why this woman likes having other people’s babies. Hotseat: Mikey Kampmann
Portland drops at the South Pole.
Planned Parenthood’s president on Congress, the HPV vaccine and why men use her group’s clinics. Dwight Holton
Oregon’s top federal prosecutor on the JTTF, Portland City Council and the iPad. Sarah Weddington
What the lawyer who argued Roe V. Wade in the 1970s now thinks about the women’s movement and Barack Obama. Hotseat: David Fidanque
The head of Oregon’s ACLU calls B.S. On JTTF. Marcus Griffith
The reporter who first called B.S. on the Bethany Storro acid attack. Hotseat: Jarrett Walker
A Portland transit expert says we shouldn’t fall in love with trains when buses will do. Hotseat: Tamim Ansary
Afghanistan-born author will tell Portlanders about another history—one that’s Islamic-centered. Rev. Mark Kiyimba
On the front lines of the fight for gay rights in Uganda. Tina Franklin
Why this woman likes having other people’s babies. Hotseat: Mikey Kampmann
Portland drops at the South Pole.
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