In the dozens of postmortems that have already been written about Hillary Clinton's failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, and the dozens more undoubtedly about to be written in the wake of last night's final primaries, one reason for her surprising fall from inevitability has been consistently downplayed (or...

In an unprecedented action, rank and file members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) shut down shipping ports up and down the West Coast yesterday to protest the War in Iraq. Organizers said it was the first time a labor union has taken such an action. On a...

This coming Thursday, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) are planning a historic May Day shutdown of 29 West Coast ports to protest the Iraq War. Here in San Francisco, ILWU's local affiliate will host a protest march down the Embarcadero in support of the work stoppage....

In his new book Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries), popular economist Jared Bernstein deconstructs the hidden, usually conservative, biases built into most analysis of the U.S. economy. Structured around a series of common "everything you ever wanted to know about money but...

The following piece is published on Pop and Politics as well as HuffPost's OffTheBus.

Twenty-four years ago, San Francisco hosted the Democratic National Convention. At the GOP's gathering that same year, Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick used the city's leftist leanings to coin one of the most damning political

JB Powell interviews Air America dj Thom Hartmann, who has a new book out about American political discourse called Cracking the Code. This interview is published on Pop and Politics as well as HuffPost's OffTheBus.

JBP: You say that after 9-11, George W. Bush was...