Can it happen here?

Here's a map of the city's new supervisor districts (red), overlaid on the old districts (purple). Getting there via the Redistricti...

The small, enthusiastic crowd assembling at 24th Street to march to join the main festivities at Civic Center reminded me how much I love my...

We need to admit to ourselves that, though everyday life and its pleasures and anxieties flow on, this country is now a party to a war ignit...

Our progressive District Attorney has many supporters who understand he's doing the work to make all of us safer. Meet a few here.

  He was all the way across the "gate," under the far pier of the Golden Gate Bridge.   That's bold.   Here he comes. The bay ...

A girl, her cat and their home destroyed by Russia #Chernihiv Photo: Oleh Tolmachov, h/t UkraineNow, Via Twitter Way back on April 3, (it se...

As San Franciscans know, or will be learning if they pay any attention to their political mail, we're about to vote on whether to recall...

Preparing to write my previous post about sanctions in international affairs, I came across two contemporary commentaries that seem worth ...

Nicholas Mulder's timing was perfect. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War came out in January 2022, just...

Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens -- except when Congress decides to discriminate against residents of the island territory. That's the ef...

I don't expect anything I care about or anyone in politics who I support to get the endorsement of the local bird cage liner. (Does anyo...

Click to enlarge Because the Orthodox Church in most of its permutations tells time on the Julian calendar, Easter in Orthodox lands takes p...

Don't be so fearful.   The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Libr...

Janeway is a born hunter. Since she's long since killed or frightened off any mice stupid enough to try living here, she's left with...

This is so wrong. In order to score political points, Republicans have been willing to cast public health interventions against the pandemic...

I have to admit, I'm not sure I understand why. To me, he looks to be doing a decent job of the work of being president. Sure there...

Folks from the National Union of Healthcare Workers were knocking on doors today in the Mission. We'll see soon enough whether buckets ...

An occasional list of links to provoking commentary. Some annotated by me. Barbara F. Walter writing at The New Republic: "...The Uni...

Sofika Zielyk, a Ukrainian-American ethnographer and artist, tells the story of pysanky , traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs. "There is ...

The descent into Hell, from a 1609 Armenian Gospel miniature Christ is risen from the dead,  trampling d...