Democrats should begin to prepare for the 2026 midterms. Before we get started, we need to understand what broke in 2024. 1.Democrats didn’t get out the vote. In 2020, there were 155 million voters; ...

On my kitchen wall there’s a poster with a slogan from World War II Britain: “Keep Calm and Carry On.” In the wake of the recent presidential debate (also known as The Debacle), pundit wannabes could ...

Berkeley City Hall’s efforts to enable the University of California's expansion in Berkeley have taken a new turn. Having already facilitated the school’s colonization of residential areas in ...

May 4 and May 5 are the free in person Bringing Back the Natives Garden tours from 10 am – 5 pm. Visit gardens planned around butterflies, hummingbirds, and caterpillars (baby bird food). Previewing ...

When I started writing the Activist’s Diary in October 2020, I was already watching the slow erosion of Berkeley as a city turning away from its former progressive leadership, but I did not expect to ...

Now that I have been so slow to finish off this Activist’s Diary and fallen into covering two weeks of meetings, it feels like the world has shifted again. Trump’s visit with Viktor Orban at ...

They don’t all agree, but in a couple of races there’s more than one pretty good candidate. Note I say “pretty” good. We’ve gotten ourselves here in California into being the equivalent of a single ...

I'm an activist and Democrat running for State Assembly District 14 because I object to the housing laws that Buffy Wicks, our Assembly member, votes for. It's market-rate high-rise housing we see ...

After multiple stops and starts, I hope to finally get this off my desk. It has taken nearly three weeks from my first day of COVID episode two (the first was Delta in 2021) to feel normal again. I am ...

Two disturbing responses to last night's City Council meeting. The first, Sophie Hahn's shocking statement at Kate Harrison's resignation. Ms Harrison carefully delineated her principled stand in her ...

Update: Councilmember Harrison has informed the Planet that she is continuing her campaign for Mayor of Berkeley. The election for that office is in November. I have decided to resign from the ...

The plight of hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians, now in Rafah, waiting for hours in line for minimal food, paints a distressing picture. The severe backlog of aid trucks at the Rafah ...