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The past several months have brought major developments in Oakland, particularly for the city's political landscape and police department, which is heading into its twenty-second year of court-ordered reforms with no end in sight. A number of local outlets have done a stellar job covering this story -

It's been a few weeks of radio silence, for which I apologize (in part). Everyone's gotta take a break now and then, and vacation is a rare but deeply enjoyable occasion for me. Particularly this year as current affairs continue their morose drift. I don'

Some weeks it's so hot that the basic daily tasks seem like a chore. Guess we can firmly say the second half of summer is well and truly upon us, if not the dog days and hurricane season (cross your fingers though: Hurricane Beryl gave us an early

The United States had our modern day John Hinckley Jr. moment last weekend: a gun-crazy kid from Western Pennsylvania took and missed his shot, sparking a two day media cycle (crazy how quick that happens). The wild speculation about the shooter's motivation will take some time to settle,

After a nail-biting few weeks and repeated entreaties from France's semi-finalist football team, France's voters dealt the Neo-Fascist Rassemblement National a shock defeat in yesterday's parliamentary elections, with the Nouvelle Front Populaire left wing coalition coming in first. Add that to Labor's

Oh it's bad. It's definitely worse than you thought. Forget for a moment about the Neo-Nixonian Supreme Court effectively declaring presidents to be above the law for any 'official act' committed in office (killing your own Attorney General, ordering members of Congress to be