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This is my cat, KT, shortly after we got her in November 1988. KT stood for "Kitty Trouble" -- she had a mischievous spirit, which...

It's appearing likely that recent shooting death in Seattle -- a popular tennis coach gunned down by a West Seattle roadside -- was, jud...

Well, things are starting to bubble up for my new book, Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community, released e...

One of the cornerstones of the Republican attack on liberals as "weak on terrorism" -- voiced most notoriously by Karl Rove last w...

This bumper sticker was spotted by Left in SF over the weekend -- disturbingly, on an SUV parked among a crowd of cars out for a gay-pride ...

Well, as promised, I appeared this afternoon on Michael Medved's radio show on KTTH-AM in Seattle to talk about hate crimes. We used m...

Fresh on the heels of news stories that Bush administration officials tampered with government climate reports, this story in the Los Angele...

I'm venturing into hostile territory today, at the studios of the local right-wing talk-show station KTTH-AM in Seattle, where I'll...

The media keep sending love letters to the Minutemen, this time in the form of a remarkably nearsighted Monterey Weekly piece that offere...

Everyone is taking a stab at answering the question, "Why did we invade Iraq?" See, especially, Matt Yglesias' take, which p...

This man is simply a piece of excrement, a piece of waste that needs to be scraped off the sidewalk and eliminated. -- KVI's John Carlso...

I'm going to be interviewed tomorrow by Richard Estes, host of Speaking in Tongues , on KDVS 90.3 FM in Davis, Calif. The interview is ...

[An unsigned painting, originating in Kansas, from the 1920s.] Those three burned crosses in North Carolina of a couple weeks ago sure got ...

There are hollow gestures, and then there are appallingly hollow gestures that only highlight the grotesque incompetence of our nation's...

At least one authority has decided to say no to the Minutemen. Sure, it may just be a Native American tribe -- but it's a start. Accordi...

One of the more fortunate generic personality traits of right-wing extremists is that they are all so ego-driven, power-hungry, and insecure...

A few years ago, then-Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho) made headlines when she dismissed salmon-recovery efforts by saying: "How...