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The Unhyphenated Family
The question my 9-year-old grandson brought home from school just after the election was all the evidence I needed that the members of my vibrant, multiracial family have become canaries in Donald Trump’s toxic new America. More …
Gay Marriage — God’s Rules and Caesar’s
Meg Whitman has a problem with our right to marry, but it’s not at all clear what that problem is. More …
The March: A View From the Crowd
Five decades ago this year, I participated in the March on Washington. More …
The Other Hands on the Barrel
Politicians and commentators have been quick to caution that the horrific shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and more than a dozen others was likely less a political act than the work of a deranged individual, and we’re sure to hear more such bromides in the days ahead. More …
Gatesgate: A lesson plan
The police officer who arrested eminent Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. is said to be an excellent and sensitive cop. He teaches a class in racial profiling. Here are a few discussion points he might want to add to the syllabus. More …
Meg Whitman: Save Marriage
Meg Whitman has a problem with our right to marry, but it’s not at all clear what that problem is. More …
Take Me to Your Editor
Huffington Post is a noble and necessary experiment in citizen journalism — and indeed in journalism itself — and I have been pleased to be a contributor, however infrequent. But like all path-breaking experiments, it can be led astray by its very success, and I wonder if it is now in danger of being blinded by the dazzle of one of its own innovations. More …
The Politics of Outrage
For decades the voters of California have been freezing their peeves of the moment into constitutional permanence. Now the state’s voters are asked to solve the ensuing budgetary mess by once again creating a rigid, permanent constitutional fix for a transient fiscal crisis. More …
Confessions of a CyberScab
The invitation to join SFGate’s new corps of bloggers called City Brights offers the opportunity to reach a substantial audience, a prospect no journalist or professional writer turns down easily. But it carries troubling implications. More …
Bye Bye Bush: The Shoe
It may have been the most important product placement in history, surpassing the American colonists’ dumping of crates of East India tea into Boston Harbor 235 years ago. More …
Management by Chaos
Before participating in the first presidential debate of the campaign, John McCain dropped a bomb on the political process by announcing unilaterally that he was suspending his campaign activities and canceling his debate participation until he could help fashion a ‘bailout’ agreement. More …