Can it happen here?

Does history really have "turning points? The more deeply one looks into it, the less apt that metaphor seems. Human history is a long ...

Click to enlarge. I look at this informative map of COVID death densities from the New York Times and I see our US history of inequity and d...

Still neutral on the Dem presidential hopefuls -- I need a shorthand nickname for this gaggle. Any suggestions? But if Elizabeth Warren c...

This is a testing time. When commentators talk about “denialism” in Trump’s presidency, they tend to mean denial that climate change is re...

Erudite Partner teaches ethics at the University of San Francisco . That's the Jesuit institution, not the state school. She often tells...

Here's a strong Bernie Sanders clip (5:38). It is worth watching the candidate being articulate and passionate about what he cares about...

When Robert D. Putnam talks, policy makers listen (or at least pretend to). In his new book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, the em...

Yesterday the Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community Committee with Black Lives Matter converged on San Francisco City Hall to force ...

Back in San Francisco, I'm once again at ground zero for a novel and painful urban transformation. The Google buses transporting affluen...

The Latino Democratic Club reminds Mission residents that this is their chance to show they are still here and not going anywhere. San Fran...

Another prescription for a well-functioning republic to which I was pointed by reading The Founding Fathers (American Presidents) : In every...

Over the long weekend, I had time to read Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Case for Reparations. Don't miss it. Take the time. I have no tro...

The net regulator, the FCC, is threatening to ratify the practice by service providers of selling a few big companies fast service -- and ...

Anyone who reads here knows that I have mixed feelings about my Congresscritter, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. On the one hand, I...

A friend with whom I've worked to increase voter participation in communities of color asked for comments on this insightful article a...

This: leads to this: Considering that where I live in the San Francisco Mission district is ground zero for this conflict, I have...

If you read Thomas Edsall's New York Times opinion columns -- and you should if you care about intelligent presentation of data about t...

That blog headline states the message of an Associated Press story proliferating around the world as we enter 2014. Make no mistake -- the...

As Mayor Bloomberg's tenure in New York City reaches an end, Chrystia Freeland makes an observation. Part of the appeal of plutocratic ...

For starters, many of them seem to deny this is "our" world. They assume they make it possible for the rest of us to survive in t...