Can it happen here?

I may be naïve, but I sure hope it matters. Today the Senate, via Senator Lindsay Graham's legal dodge and good dose of obfuscation see...

December 15 is Bill of Rights Day. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed it, in 1941, just a week after the country was thrust into...

Left: Tirhas Habtegiris; Right: Naqsha Bibi First, death: A Dallas TV station reports that a Plano hospital gave the family of a patien...

Before After Somehow I don't think this transformation is going to make much difference. For the last couple of months, major renovation...

Marchers break bread at liturgy outside Guantanamo gate Published by Witness Against Torture. Photo by Scott Langley. This post is an upda...

This morning in San Francisco Municipal Court, I watched an acquaintance (I'll call him JPW) receive a sentence of 16 months in state pr...

This silly exercise has been floating around the blogosphere. I'm ready to bite. You enter your first name and word "needs" in...

The comprehensive private care facility's opening this week in Tijuana drew VIPs, some of whom arrived in this Rolls-Royce. Photo: Jim ...

Twenty-five Christians in the nonviolent tradition of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement have been marching for four days from San...

That question is really what is being argued when Republican politicians attack 'birthright citizenship.' Birthright citizenship is...

Billie is an enthusiastic youngster. Griveny is grizzled old guy. Both beauties; both their own cats.

Gary Delagnes of the San Francisco Police Officers Asssociation This is yet another post in which I'll bring some history to bear on cur...

Yesterday a jury in Tampa, Florida acquitted Dr. Sami Al-Arian on 8 of 17 charges involving supporting Palestinian Islamic Jihad. They we...

On Tuesday, Venezuelan and U.S. officials helped pump the first delivery of heating oil into a building in the Bronx. Photo Credit: By Rick ...

So few of us now belong to a labor organization that most of us probably don't even ask ourselves that question. If we do, we may think ...

James Loney, one of the four Christian Peacemakers kidnapped in Iraq, doing what peacemakers must do: giving voice to the voiceless, in thi...

Watch him get bounced around here. If he starts to get stuck, you can help keep him going by dragging with your mouse. Hat tip to sastreman...

A line forms at a polling place in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo Credit: By Howard Yanes -- Reuters Major U.S. newspaper were full of stories to...

Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson This Yale Press book is ins...

The situation in which [former New Orleans] residents find themselves is an extreme example of a trend underway for a quarter-century,...