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The Plame affair, it seems, really has Republicans snarling, their usual response when backed into a corner. You can tell that because now t...

You know, in rereading Michelle Malkin's In Defense of Internment, I'm so relieved to reread the passage in which she adamantly ins...

We had a nice turnout for the Strawberry Days signing at the University Book Store last night, including a surprise visit from one of my in...

Hope you all have a chance to check out this week's airing of the P.O.V. documentary, "The Fire Next Time," which examines a ...

Well, reviews don't come much more glowing than David Takami's piece on Strawberry Days for the Seattle Times , calling it "su...

The pieces on my new book, Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community , are starting to roll in, and so far the...

One of the peculiarities of the way extremism works is that you'll often find bizarre confluences of the far right and far left, as in t...

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 ...