Can it happen here?

We blew into New York City/Newark Airport in the middle of the night after delayed cross country flights. Oblivious Californians that we are...

The young people on the street last week at the education funding march are the future of California. Sure, they can be cute. But there is ...

It's raining. I'm wrestling unhappily with a writing project. Outside on the wall alongside the front steps, these guys are slowly e...

Haitians can rebuild their country -- we can help. [2:16]

The Democratic Senator from Arkansas is at it again. On labor issues, she represents Walmart better than workers; she has also been a nasty ...

Seen in a doorway yesterday, taking advantage of a weak spring sun.

One of my secrets is that I don't read newspapers every day. Enough news flies by at various blogs and other sites that I frequent that ...

Given the number of things I find myself advocating for (and against), I find it almost embarrassing to be posting this. But the cliché is t...

The San Francisco Chronicle asked candidates for California governor to respond to Toyota's closure of the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont. ...

The President's men are putting out trial balloons that he intends to cave in to admitted war criminal Dick Cheney's whining and ove...

(This is a guest post from Rebecca Gordon, a member of the WarTimes group who teaches ethics at the University of San Francisco. WarTimes/...

Neera Tanden, an executive at the Center for American Progress thinktank who worked in the Obama and Clinton administrations, assures conser...

If you think getting most of us access to some kind of health care is hard ... you haven't yet contemplated how hard it is in this count...

Unabashedly lifted from Ezra Klein . I'm busy today making a little "democratic" noise alongside students and teachers for con...

Today Obama laid it on the line, finally insisting that Democratic majorities in Congress pass something : At stake right now is not j...

Okay, time to get back to the business of changing the country for the better. The Obama administration can't or won't do much unles...

Last night, at the urging of some smart friends, I attended a showing of the film Switch: A Community in Transition at the San Francisco LG...

Perhaps someone should have thought a little harder about how to pitch this meeting. Via RAG.

For a lot of us in the United States, Europe (not including Russia) isn't an area that ever grabbed our political attention. When my gen...

San Francisco gardeners can be a reasonable and hopeful bunch. Sign observed on Bernal Hill. I'm off to a photography class today, but I...