Harris plays to the center; Pence plays to the base
It's sad that the Democratic Party feels it has to defend fracking and hide from the Green New Deal.
Democrat in D7 race helps pay for Republican candidate’s mailer
Joel Engardio is on a one-two slate with right-wing GOP hopeful -- and the mayor is now endorsing both Engardio and Myrna Melgar.
Wiener tries to look progressive in debate
But that requires a bit of historical revisionism, since his record has always been very moderate on police, housing, and homelessness.
Finally, a state Senate debate
Plus: The municipal corruption scandal and the state of the city's economy. That's The Agenda for Sept. 28-Oct. 4
The most important political story of 2020 that nearly every campaign is ignoring
The very rich stole $50 trillion from the rest of us in the past 45 years. Why aren't we all outraged?
From the RNC to Kenosha: racism and death
Two days after a pair of gun-toting white vigilantes got a prime-time speaking slot at the Republican National Convention, a gun-toting white vigilante shot and killed two people in...
The horror that is the RNC
I almost couldn’t watch. And I’ve watched a lot of bad politics.
The Republican Convention has been something different, a new low beyond the worst of my lifetime as a...
Biden’s convention: Powerful images, powerful speeches ….
Wednesday night was about fighting back. The speakers took on Donald Trump, with former President Barack Obama – normally the calm, measured voice of moderation – launching what may...
Convention, Day One: It’s all about “together.”
The word of the day was “together.” We hear it all the time in Democratic Party circles, usually from the more centrist side. It’s up there with “unite.” (Remember...
Why the Post Office matters
When I arrived in San Francisco in 1981, the Post Office on Clayton street was my lifeline. We used to call Clayton “Post Office Street.”
I was young and broke....
