Frank Viviano
Dec 8, 20172 min read
Letter from Europe / Brexit, the Irish Dream Made Real by the Tories
I've been reading the fine print in this morning's first-phase Brexit agreement between the UK and the EU. Put simply, a road map for...
Jan Reid
Oct 31, 20174 min read
Spain's Troubles
Because my novel Sins of the Younger Sons delves into Basque separatism in Spain, several friends and readers have asked for my outlook...
Michael Ventura
Sep 16, 20175 min read
Ventura at 4am .. Charlottesville, Arpiao, DACA
Event supersedes event. History on fast-forward. Because of what I did for so long -– forty years of commentary –- I’m moved to give an...
Frank Viviano
Aug 17, 20172 min read
A Deplorable Situation
Another bone to the deplorable dogs: he's now on record that it's "foolish" to tear down Confederate statues. Once someone goes after...
Admin
May 30, 20175 min read
Still Relevant / The Naked Truth
My drawing here was done in early 1974 as the Watergate scandal was really heating up. This was, in fact, my very first political...
Shelly Gehshan
May 2, 20174 min read
Signs of Our Times .... the People's Climate March
“It’s already hot enough in NC” “April is the new August” “91 degrees in April. SAD!” It was fitting that the temperature for the Climate...
Michael Ventura
Mar 14, 20179 min read
Ventura at 4am / March!
This piece introduces a new series of essays, ventura_at_4am, specifically focused on Resistance and Vision during this crisis of the...
Various writers
Mar 7, 20176 min read
Open Forum / Ideas for Surviving a Dark Age
Donald Trump, global warming, spreading fascism ... the world is growing dark. This space is an open forum for anyone who wants to offer...
the Lunch Guys
Mar 2, 201715 min read
The Lunch Guys / Trump & the Press
Every Thursday for the last 20+ years a group of artists, scientists, writers and one bail bondsman have gotten together in the Mission...
Various writers
Feb 24, 201715 min read
Opinion / Facing Fascism
This is an ongoing compendium of articles concerning the election of 2016 and its aftermath: "But, despite populism’s seeming ubiquity,...
Tamim Ansary
Feb 17, 20179 min read
The Answer to Trump
When Ronald Reagan was running for re-election in 1984, most of the people I hung out with thought he would lose. He’d railed at the...
Steve Weissman
Jan 11, 20173 min read
Opinion / From the Folks Who Brought You Iraq's WMDs, Vietnam, and the first Cold War: The Putin
Like TV's worst reality show, the Putin-Trump Show rolls on with a new report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence...
Steve Weissman
Dec 22, 20164 min read
Trump and Le Pen: What Would Hitler Say?
Donald Trump poses many dangers, high among them the way he plays to the economic rage of workers losing their jobs to globalization and...