“Haiti is like an accordion,” said the great Haitian painter, Andre Pierre. “Sometimes it is stretched very big, and sometimes it is squeezed very small.” For the last several months Haiti has been in its big phase, generating daily headlines to the tune of: “A once popular regime collapses,” “”˜Rebels’ take over provincial towns,” “protesters shot,” “boat people turned back by the U.S. Read more...

I’m from the South; Florida, to be exact. I saw the signs that said “colored” and “white” above water fountains and bathroom doors. I was there as a first-year Florida student in 1965, the year after the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee was disbanded, following eight years of terrorizing both National Association for the Advancement of Colored People members and homosexual professors in the state’s universities. Read more...

At first glance, Proposition 57 and Proposition 58 would seem to make sense. After all, nobody denies the fact that while in office, former Gov. Gray Davis and the Legislature spent every penny they took in ““ and a whole lot more ““ to create a massive operating deficit. Read more...

California faces a cash flow crisis in a little over 100 days. The state’s bills come due on June 16, and if we don’t have enough money to pay them, we will be forced to make drastic cuts to the services that Californians care most about. Read more...

Negative views about gay marriage, such as the recent submission by Adam Partridge (“Legalizing gay marriage not so simple,” Feb. 24), are nothing new. But attacks on gay marriage are unfounded. Read more...

The objections of the Jewish community to Mel Gibson’s movie were, unfortunately, poorly characterized in Nick Dang’s column, “It’s not anti-Semitic; it’s just a movie” (Feb. Read more...

I support Ralph Nader’s independent campaign for president, but I will not be voting for him. My support for his candidacy doesn’t come from a belief that he’d be a good president ““ in fact, I think he would not be much of a president at all. Read more...