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The Curse of the California Governor's Race Continues Aug. 18, 2026
SAN DIEGO — In politics, biography is destiny. It can also be deceiving. Just look at the Cal... Read More
Presidential Chutzpah Aug. 15, 2026
When Truth Social, President Donald Trump's media mouthpiece, announced that it would be selling adv... Read More
Iran is Teaching Trump a Painful Version of the Art of the Deal Aug. 11, 2026
SAN DIEGO — President Donald Trump didn't want to be compared to one failed president, and so ... Read More
Gavin's Old Girlfriend Jul. 30, 2026
Gavin Newsom is a case study of why not to run for president. For starters, his wife is the target o... Read More
Pete Hegseth's War Jul. 23, 2026
So far, the number is $37.5 billion. That's how much we've spent so far on the war against Iran. Wh... Read More
Reading Time is Not Over, But We Need to End the Stigma for Those Who Struggle With It Jul. 16, 2026
SAN DIEGO — Here is something you didn't need a library card to figure out. Americans read fe... Read More
Apology Tour: Americans Abroad Experience Humility and Humiliation Jun. 16, 2026
For Americans traveling in Western Europe this summer, it's a time of real humility, and some humili... Read More
The Gilded Age of Billion-Dollar Political Bribery Jun. 10, 2026
Remember long, long ago in the old-timey days of politics, way back ... maybe 10 years or so? In th... Read More
GOP Becomes Party of Victims, Conspiracy Theorists and Sore Losers Jun. 09, 2026
SAN DIEGO — Republicans need a new mascot that is more in sync with their current vibe. Like a... Read More
Californians Overcome Another Disaster: Their Primary Election Jun. 04, 2026
SAN DIEGO — Here's a political postcard from California, where the scenery is beautiful, but t... Read More
The Reality of the Virtual Metaverse Apr. 01, 2026
Our future was pronounced dead last week. I mean that glorious future of "The Metaverse," promised t... Read More
Trump Exposed the Crazy Things Democrats Believe Mar. 02, 2026
It shouldn't have been a difficult decision. During his Tuesday State of the Union address, Preside... Read More
Peggy Noonan Loses Her Noodle Over Washington Post Layoffs Feb. 11, 2026
Editorial writers can have a solipsistic tendency to think journalism jobs are the most essential jo... Read More
Don't Cry for The Washington Post, It Helped Destroy Media Feb. 06, 2026
In December of 2016, The Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. elect... Read More
Why Is the Pentagon Barring Soldiers From Repairing Their Weapons? Jan. 28, 2026
The U.S. military has long been an easy mark — for our own avaricious corporate contractors, t... Read More
The Status Quo vs. The Alternative Jan. 23, 2026
The last two weeks have been, like the preceding weeks, nuts. The president insisted the United Stat... Read More
Another Hellacious Idea from the Texas Laboratory of Bad Government Oct. 29, 2025
Texas: What the Hell? The Lone Star State's government, a wholly owned corporate subsidiary, solidif... Read More
Can Feisty Journalists Rescue Their Newspaper from Corporate Greed ... Again? Aug. 06, 2025
In 2018 my newspaper died. Well, actually, the emaciated carcass of the Austin American Statesman st... Read More
Soldiers Say It's Hard to Eat a $45 Million Parade Jun. 25, 2025
How embarrassing. Our showbiz president's glorious $45 million military parade — fssssst ̵... Read More
Grocery Prices Will Go Up Apr. 11, 2025
We don't grow much coffee within the United States. Only Hawaii and Puerto Rico are really capable o... Read More
