The 'pizza burrito' is an affront to both pizzas and burritos
The 2010s have brought us many a haphazard food mashup, often announced to great fanfare: The cronut. The cruffin. The tacro. The donut burrito. Boba pizza. And this week, the pizza burrito, a pizza...
View ArticleOpinion: Dear tech bros, stop asking me to pay your way to Burning Man.
As Burning Man has moved from the fringes of counterculture — from a bunch of naked people frolicking on Baker Beach in 1986 to a place where Google execs can eat fresh lobster in a compound filled...
View ArticleOpinion: Nikki Haley's resignation is no surprise
Count me among those least surprised that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is departing. I've repeatedly urged she do just that to preserve her reputation and political viability and...
View ArticleRefugees should not be political fodder
In the madness of the Trump era, terrible things happen with almost no notice. An announcement is made, some news stories are written, and the issue quickly disappears, engulfed in a storm of crazy...
View ArticleTrump deflects, Feinstein debates ... we analyze
Selective outrage: As our editorial notes, President Trump sure seems to give the benefit of the doubt to privileged men accused of crimes. Even so, his reticence to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for...
View ArticleIs the high school letterman's jacket a sign of the patriarchy?
Has the American teenager's once ubiquitous cloak of status and personal achievement been relegated to the Goodwill rack of history? The Letterman's Jacket has been the uniform of American...
View ArticleGOP tax cut failed the middle class, increased federal deficit
The Republican tax cut is a big, fat failure. It has achieved none of the things that Republicans promised it would. It didn’t reduce deficits. It didn’t target the middle class. And it didn’t win...
View ArticleHating government won’t improve it
Our core problem is a dogmatic antigovernment attitude that arose in the 1970s and ’80s. This makes it impossible for us to have a constructive debate about what government is for.
View ArticleEditorial: Attorney General Barr’s misplaced loyalties
Attorney General William Barr has been acting as if he’s President Trump’s personal attorney, not the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. His disgraceful handling of the Mueller report has shown...
View ArticleGOP's frontal assault on Roe v. Wade shows they understand power
Just in time for the 2020 election, state-level Republicans have decided to stop being cautious and force the Supreme Court to decide whether to uphold Roe v. Wade. After the passage of a series of...
View ArticleNo masking it: The best way to avoid the scary coronavirus? Wash your hands
Americans are watching with alarm as a new coronavirus spreads in China and cases pop up in the United States. They are barraged with information about what kinds of masks are best to prevent viral...
View ArticleNote from the editorial page editor
An Open Forum piece posted Feb. 19 was removed after its main premise – that former San Francisco Giants player Aubrey Huff was being banished from an on-field ceremony because of his support of...
View ArticleI left the Bay Area to pursue a PhD. Now, it's all gone online.
In the fall, I left my full-time job at SFGATE and started a PhD program in Southern California. What a year it has been. I am lucky that my friends, myself and my family are in good health, but I,...
View ArticleAn Oakland public school teacher on the failure of Proposition 15
California is the fifth-largest economy in the world yet 39th in the U.S. in school funding when adjusted for cost of living.
View ArticleTenderloin nonprofit leader on the traffic safety silver lining of...
COVID-19 has changed many of our lives in heartbreaking, isolating, arduous ways. But it also has made changes possible that are good and should last.
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