SAN FRANCISCO — Will Matt Gonzalez soon become the Green Party’s first mayor of a major U.S. city? Gonzalez faces centrist Democrat Gavin Newsom in a Dec. 9 runoff election in San Francisco. And while the smart money is on Newsom, who ran well ahead of Gonzalez in a crowded Nov. 4 general election, there […]
James Goodno
James B. Goodno writes about politics and policy in the American West and Southeast Asia.
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Philippine Folly
Americans don’t fare well in the historic memory of residents of the Sulu Archipelago, a Muslim-dominated group of islands in the far southwestern Philippines. In one 1906 incident, U.S. troops under the command of Gen. Leonard Wood killed more than 1,000 ethnic Tausugs, leaving a bitter animosity that survives to this day. “It is a […]
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Westward Ho!
Pat Williams was happy to get back to Montana. “It was like going to an island of victory to be in Helena,” says the former nine-term member of Congress. A Democratic progressive, Williams witnessed the election-day desperation of his party in the nation’s capital. But in Montana, Democrats gained ground in the state legislature, re-elected […]
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Herrera’s Winning Hand
“Dario [Herrera] is the best one-on-one campaigner I’ve ever seen,” says Paul Brown, Las Vegas coordinator of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN), and after a day going door-to-door with Herrera in the city’s new 3rd Congressional District, I don’t doubt it. A 29-year-old Democrat and a member of the powerful Clark County Commission […]