George W. Bush

Unruly Tenants: Moving Day at 1600 Pennsylvania Can Be Rough

The on-again-off-again détente between the outgoing and incoming administrations was off before apparently being on again—at least, as of this writing—with The Donald tweeting last week, “Doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory President O statements and roadblocks. Thought it was going to be a smooth transition - NOT!” only to reverse himself a few hours later when he told reporters that the transition was going “very, very smoothly.”

So has it always been this awkward? Read more about Unruly Tenants: Moving Day at 1600 Pennsylvania Can Be Rough »

Posted on January 4, 2017 - 2:43pm

Provoking the Latino Vote: Early Signs that Trump Is Triggering a Backlash

Much ado has been made of the Latino demographic in this election year. Democrats see reports of rising voter registration and immigrant naturalization rates among Latinos in Texas, California and elsewhere as good news, given that Latino voters tend to skew Democratic. Read more about Provoking the Latino Vote: Early Signs that Trump Is Triggering a Backlash »

Posted on May 13, 2016 - 3:50pm

Angels, Protesters and Patriots: What a Long-Ago Skirmish Says About Love of Country

Lately, I’ve been thinking about an incident that happened in 1965, seven years before I was born. It centered on an antiwar protest in Berkeley, one of the first of countless such protests to come. Though just a blip in the grand scheme of Vietnam era turmoil, it seems to point to something important about America and the nature of patriotism.

It starts with a guy named “Tiny.” Tiny was 6’7” and 300 pounds. And he really liked to fight. Read more about Angels, Protesters and Patriots: What a Long-Ago Skirmish Says About Love of Country »

From the Spring 2016 War Stories issue of California.

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In The Starship or the Canoe: Where Will Our Future Adaptations Be?: Hi Ned, you make some fair points here. Thanks for bringing them up. Freeman Dyson is indeed skeptical of the idea that climate change is...

— PJ :: 6/22/2017 12:04pm

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— Ned Leiba :: 6/22/2017 11:07am

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