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Yakima's population is nearly half Latinx, yet it took a tumultuous voting rights battle to open the door to more Latinx elected officials. Now the city council has just one.

Despite the turbulence of recent years, we can make the power of the people felt for good in Seattle and King County.

Legislative caucuses are off limits to the press and public, including anthropologists.

State Sen. Andy Hill, a prototypical Washington legislator: white, male, well-educated and well to do. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Laws about taxing or not taxing online sales are an example of a cultural invention that dictates the way we view and behave in the "real" world.

Facial expressions and posture send signals about relationships and power dynamics.

An anthropologist in the capital, studying state lawmakers in their natural habitat.