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Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian. He is the founder of 48hills.

I first learned about Malcolm Harris’ new book, Palo Alto, when I read a review by Gary Kamiya in The New York Times. Kamiya trashes the book, deriding it for being what it is: A Marxist ...

Mist swirls through soaring Monterey pine trees, threatening to envelop the gated enclosure below. A steep embankment protects a community garden from the wind and fog, offering sanctuary to hundreds ...

48hills.org is the official publication of the non-profit San Francisco Progressive Media Center.

Gold Star Moms, the Great War, the Russian Revolution -- and a memorial that nobody seems to remember or notice This year is the 100-year anniversary of the entry of the United States into World War I ...

Bad history — even when well-intended — gives me a headache, because it so often misses and conceals far more important truths. To wit, in a recent column David Talbot neatly summed up the ...