Can it happen here?

Lots of people whose opinions I value find Joshua Marshall of Talking Points Memo a pompous ass. Sometimes I agree. But, because I also seem...

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, ...

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...

Here's another San Francisco action from Saturday. I had thought to attend this one also, but accepted that getting to two had to be go...

  San Franciscans gathered Saturday outside the Tesla dealership on Van Ness Avenue. The national movement follows two recent, horrific kil...

On one of the Bulwark podcasts recently (sorry -- can't remember which one), head honcho Sarah Longwell tossed off a throwaway laugh li...

Andrea Pitzer, author of a serious popular book on the history of concentration camps , surveys the literature on authoritarian governments ...

Let us celebrate "a new birth of freedom!"  Sociologist Robert P. Jones makes a suggestion that works for me: ... The period of 1...

Or possibly we've turned a corner? A lot of commentators in DC seem to think so. As Josh Marshall remarks: ... you build autocracies whe...

The weekly resistance Dance Party on the 18th Street overpass over Highway 101 in San Francisco greets the evening traffic. Recorded music c...

  They title this video "Justice." I post this Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee video today, NOT because I think it is ...

Anand Gopal's New Yorker article about how Syrians overthrew their long time dictator Bashir Assad in 2012 and how the new democracy de...

There's plenty of punditry going around in the backwash of the big day. For what it is worth, here's mine. This was big; there are c...

I'm always bemused when the MAGA-ites describe those of us who repudiate their vision for the country as mired in anger. Sure -- we thin...

No Kings, No ICE, No War. A few images:   The people assemble at the Embarcadero Plaza by the old clock tower and the new wire sculpture. An...

Next Saturday, March 28, will be the largest one day peaceful (we hope) protest in US history at over 3000 sites around the country and beyo...

Yesterday's post chronicled the brutal history of concentration camps . But it made scarcely a mention of resistance to these facilities...

A Pew Research Center survey in twenty-five countries asked respondents "to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country....

Odds are, you have encountered Bruce Springteen's ode to the battle of Minnesota. After all, it's been written up even in the New Yo...

Last October, it looked as if the San Francisco Bay Area was to be next target of Donald Trump's Rambo/ICE thugs. And then we weren'...