Rights and Democracy
What I Learned at Pride
Like many cities, San Diego holds its Pride Parade every summer. As a straight woman who hates traffic and crowds, I'd never gone before. This summer I decided to go. It wasn't until I began telling friends about my plans to go that I heard the varying misconceptions...
Don’t Trust Business with Education
Betsy DeVos and her husband Dick are lucky: They inherited a big chunk of the multi-billion-dollar fortune that Dick's dad Richard amassed through his shady Amway corporation. But what they've done with their Amway money is certainly not the American Way. The DeVos...
Trump’s Worst Collusion Isn’t With Russia — It’s With Corporations
I’ve always been a little skeptical that there’d be a smoking gun about the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia. The latest news about Donald Trump, Jr., however, is tantalizingly close. The short version of the story, revealed by emails the New York Times...
The Tax Plan Moms Need
During his speech announcing that the U.S. is ditching the Paris climate accords, President Trump took a strange detour to declare "our tax bill is moving along in Congress, and I believe it's doing very well. I think a lot of people will be very pleasantly...
Tongue Tied
Domestic Terrorism in the Age of Trump
Harassment, intimidation, and physical violence against religious and ethnic minorities is on the rise. And some experts worry the Trump administration is making things worse. The attack on a Portland commuter train by a knife-wielding white nationalist who was...
Gender Studies at Hogwarts
J.K. Rowling, author of the bestselling Harry Potter series, just made headlines for an epic tweetstorm condemning misogyny. Referring to women politicians, she tweeted, "femaleness is not a design flaw." I love J.K. Rowling. I love her books. I've read the entire...
Pinocchio Nose
Trump TV, Coming to a Market Near You
Donald Trump’s favorite local TV chain is about to get a lot bigger thanks to — wait for it — Donald Trump. Trump’s Federal Communications Commission is paving the way for Sinclair Broadcast Group — already the nation’s largest TV conglomerate — to take over Tribune,...
Collective Amnesia Syndrome
