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The Lessons of East Timor

San Francisco Bay Guardian | March 29, 2006

The U.S. acted effectively to end the suffering of East Timor because it finally required that one of our allies live up to the ideals we demand of our enemies.

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Pelosi Backs Bush on Iran Plansnew

How in the world does the representative of perhaps the most antiwar city in the country sign off on the United States doing this to another nation?

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Tom Gallagher | 07-31-2008 | Commentary

Tags: Bush administration, Iran, Nancy Pelosi, foreign policy

The Case for Kucinichnew

If you don't vote in February for what you believe in, you won't get to vote for it in November.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Tom Gallagher | 12-19-2007 | Commentary

Tags: 2008 presidential election, Dennis Kucinich

'Tearing Down the Gates' Examines School Inequitiesnew

Peter Sacks, a former community college teacher and longtime independent critic of American education, reminds readers that school decline as the class divide increases.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Tom Gallagher | 09-12-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Peter Sacks, Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education, Nonfiction Reviews

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The Fall of Leland Yeenew

How an FBI probe of organized crime in San Francisco's Chinatown took down a senator and well-connected political consultant.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Steven T. Jones | 04-04-2014 | Politics

Tags: Leland Yee

States Push Back on Citizens United Rulingnew

A California Assembly member is pushing a bill to ensure that corporate entities making political donations are required to at least disclose those contributions. Other states have taken even bolder steps.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Lisa Carmack | 01-17-2012 | Politics

Tags: Campaign Finance, Super PAC, Citizens United ruling

Is San Francisco Moving to the Right?new

The demographic makeup of San Francisco is changing, and has been for a while.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Tim Redmond | 11-11-2011 | Commentary

Tags: Political Ideology in San Francisco, San Francisco Demographics, San Francisco Politics

DADT Ruling Gives Obama an Opportunity to Leadnew

Obama has a chance to demonstrate to voters on the left that this administration is actually willing to take a stand on an issue that is important to progressives and other believers in social justice.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Steven T. Jones | 10-13-2010 | Commentary

Tags: Barack Obama, DADT

PG&E and Mercury Insurance are Spending Millions to Try to Trick California Votersnew

California voters are about to be bombarded by more than $50 million in political advertising designed to convince them to approve a pair of measures desperately sought by two powerful corporations with a long history of lies and political corruption.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Rebecca Bowe and Steven T. Jones | 03-17-2010 | Politics

Tags: corporate interests, Mercury Insurance, California, PG&E, voters

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