Can it happen here?

I've mentioned before that the City by the Bay seems to have been overrun by salesmen for ornamental lions. Never would have known that ...

If anyone thinks the content around here has become a little thin lately, I agree. You see, this month I am beating my tired old body into s...

Morty and Tokyo are achieving something more like wary coexistence than harmony. He remains offended that someone else has appeared in his d...

For anyone who is looking for a truly educational, truly fascinating, truly understandable long read (18 hours in the less expensive audio e...

I suppose I should have guessed that something like this would be true, but I'm nonetheless a little surprised. Pew Research has a mild...

made some tiny emoji art to mark this moment pic.twitter.com/Flk5ZT3Xp4 — laura olin (@lauraolin) June 8, 2016

This display of topical piñatas in the Mission seems about right to me. The crazy in this year's election has everything to do with Ba...

It would be tempting to think that legalization of marriage equality and general easing of mainstream recoil from gay people and our lives w...

If you missed Erudite Partner speaking about American Nuremberg at the Bay Area Book Fair on Saturday (seen here with co-panelist David Day...

As this endless primary season sputters to a close, I'd be remiss if I didn't call out something that did not happen. There's b...

Nothing to add to the reminiscences of Muhammad Ali but this: when I was a young person in the Sixties, his willingness to buck the draft an...

the pain does not end. Here Refugio Nieto tells the story of his son Alex Nieto , murdered by the SFPD on March 21, 2014. Lorena Melgarejo ...

How's this for a perversion of the intent of a law? As far as I can figure out, from reading news accounts here and here , in the after...

Ms. Meow (aka Tokyo) luxuriates in this new bed and breakfast where she is visiting for a season. Morty is not sure about the interloper. Bu...

A police chief is out, but San Francisco still has a police force that, over the last two years, has shot five people of color, (3 Latino ...

According to Priceonomics, impersonating a presidential candidate has not been good for The Donald's hotels: Bookings at Trump Hotels a...

In this nasty electoral season, I'm pondering the observations of two smart, decent men who've lived through similar electoral t...

For this Memorial Day, here are some thoughts from J. Kael Weston who served the U.S. State Department at the UN and deployed as a politic...

Since we're enduring an election, I'm giving a lot of attention to 538 Politics, the site where Nate Silver has landed his "...

The tourist with the camera may think he's capturing a manifestation of a worthy working class cause in front of City Hall here in Left ...