Uneasy Rhetoric

A cool breeze and temperatures down into the frigid mid-80s have probably made last week’s heat wave a distant memory for many. But according an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, we can expect a lot more heat waves in the near (not in the far, oh so distant) future.
According to the article, by [...]

If you’re a policy wonk like me, you’re constantly on the lookout for juicy studies, briefs, and toilet paper. A couple of people at UC Berkeley have taken it upon themselves to compile “a quick and easy update on what’s new in California public policy research.”
The California Policy Inbox aggregates research from several dozen [...]

I’m a pretty liberal guy. Line up all my political issues and interests and you’ll find my boat listing to the left. But when the President is in town, you won’t find me on a freeway overpass waving a hand-painted sign about Iraq or anything else. I won’t be the guy on [...]

If there is one thing that is changing faster than the global climate, it is the rate at which scientists (and by “scientists” I am most definitely not including economists) and even nonscientists are abandoning the stance that global warming may not be at least a partial byproduct of human activity.
In today’s Bee, Dan Weintraub [...]

I’m a bit late to the whole immigration debate, but bear with me. My own opinions on the issue of illegal immigration run the gamut from understanding that it is against the law to understanding that illegal immigrants are an integral part of our economy. At its core though, I believe that illegal [...]