Can it happen here?

This is just so much to the point, I find I can't retreat into needed rest without amplifying it. Just as in January, Minnesota is show...

If anyone has wondered where I disappeared to, the picture tells the story: Last Friday, at the end of a six mile walk in Golden Gate Park, ...

Okay -- I can't make a case that this woman is going to win her campaign. (Maybe someone from Florida can show me I'm too pessimisti...

Erudite Partner is at it again. The syndication platform  Tom Dispatch has moved to the Intercept and today publishes her latest: It’s Tim...

Things I didn't have a mental picture of, but am glad to have learned -- from basketball great and good man Kareem Abdul Jabbar:  Wudu i...

A Canadian friend posted this warning yesterday. It seems about right to me.  Growing up on the US-Canada border, our big neighbor to the no...

Still a little brain fogged from the long trip back from Mongolia. But I encourage readers to click on this short introduction to Senator Ro...

In the auditorium of San Francisco's Mission High School, a leftish segment of the Bay Area activist population was in the house this mo...

  At one of the farms we visited in Mongolia, an inquisitive kitten checked us all out. She ran around the place, approaching every person a...

I'm back to San Francisco, refreshed mentally though not physically, after nearly two weeks as a tourist in Mongolia with a delightful s...

We're off to see the world until late August. This isn't politics; it's curiosity. The destination is Mongolia, visiting sheep h...

Tonight -- the first Tuesday in August -- we'll find out who won the Michigan Democratic Party primary for the chance to contest an open...