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Foreign Correspondent: The US occupation of northern Syria

Reese Erlich - February 11, 2018

When President Obama started bombing Syria in 2014, he enjoyed bipartisan support in Washington. Americans were appalled by the atrocities of the Islamic State,...

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Trump’s offshore oil plan is a hostile act by a rogue nation

Steven T. Jones - January 31, 2018

We can’t overstate just how much President Trump’s offshore drilling offensive threatens the planet and its inhabitants. Not only is he inviting dirty drilling...

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Foreign Correspondent: Cuba’s ‘sonic attack’ on diplomats is pure science fiction

Reese Erlich - January 28, 2018

HAVANA -- The mainstream media stories were straight out of a science fiction movie. Somebody in Cuba was aiming a super sophisticated "sonic weapon"...

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Foreign Correspondent: Make Saudi Arabia great again!

Reese Erlich - November 18, 2017

I stood in front of a mosque in the city of Qatif, Saudi Arabia, interviewing people for a story. Suddenly, two city police cars...

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Foreign Correspondent: US sells out the Kurds — again

Reese Erlich - November 4, 2017

I stood at a border crossing as thousands of Yazidis and other refugees fled ISIS attacks on Mosul and nearby cities. Tens of thousands...

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59 dead. Hundreds maimed. And we still can’t get real gun control

Tim Redmond - October 2, 2017

The best analysis I’ve seen so far of the horrific killings in Las Vegas is from Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker, who notes: If...

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OPINION: Jerry Brown can help police accountability

Susan Leff - September 18, 2017

Imagine you are in your neighborhood when you see a police officer interacting with a civilian. You are confused by what you see, but you...

Arts + Culture

Dolores Huerta, filling the screen

Caitlin Donohue - August 29, 2017

In 1962, political organizer Dolores Huerta was a twice-divorced mother of seven. She had also just told Cesar Chávez that she would join him...

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Is Trump planning permanent occupation of Afghanistan?

Reese Erlich - August 22, 2017

On my first reporting trip to Afghanistan, I was surprised to find that so many people supported the US invasion. They loved President George...

Arts + Culture

Tearing down the ‘Walls’

Caitlin Donohue - June 30, 2017

ONSTAGE San Francisco Mime Troupe groupies (Troupies?) had a moment this week when the veteran political theater troupe's 2017 production Walls landed on Conservative...

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