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Foreign Correspondent: US beats the drums of war in Iran

While the world focuses on the coronavirus pandemic, tensions between the US and Iran are heating up. The two countries are engaging in tit-for-tat military...

In Hong Kong, protests and precautions at Chinese New Year

My wife (she prefers that label) and I travel to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region each year to visit her relatives, in particular,...

Foreign correspondent: I was under a brief coronavirus quarantine

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. On February 22, I left Iran after a week of covering the country’s parliamentary elections. Ten days...

Foreign correspondent: Hardliners win in Iran but turnout was extremely low

TEHRAN—The parliamentary candidates had rented a large hall for a campaign rally, but only a few hundred supporters showed up. They came to see...

Review: ‘Mimi’s Suitcase’ packs a lot in, but destination is cloudy

Even before the play begins, a red suitcase is in full view, slightly stage right, on an otherwise empty set. During the course of the...

Playwright Ana Bayat lets us peek inside her ‘Mimi’s Suitcase’

Many Iranian families who could, left Iran during the revolution in 1979. But Ana Bayat’s family members did things a little differently. They left...

Foreign correspondent: Trump backs down, but Iran conflict continues

Trump blinked. After threatening to bomb military and cultural sites in Iran, President Donald Trump has apparently backed down on further escalation in his quasi-war...

Scenes from an anti-war protest: Here we go again

Code Pink, ANSWER, chants of "US Out of Iraq!"... For some of us it felt like a real (and depressing) timewarp back to the...

What’s really going on with the US and Iran?

On Jan. 2 a US drone fired a missile on a car caravan leaving the Baghdad airport, killing Iranian Major General Qassem Suleimani and...

Where to protest US actions in Iraq

A rally/march is being organized Saturday, January 4, at noon, at Powell and Market Streets in downtown San Francisco. It's part of coordinated protest...