MERCURY NEWS, Jan. 22, 2022
If the state wants to show it is taking the drought seriously, it should provide more funds to expand rebates.
MERCURY NEWS, Jan. 22, 2022
If the state wants to show it is taking the drought seriously, it should provide more funds to expand rebates.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Oct. 24, 2021
This outsized scrutiny has allowed another set of key actors to go underinvestigated.
POLITICO, May 26, 2021
When one young journalist was fired, the incident revealed a problem deeper than bad social media policies.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Feb. 7, 2021
Journalists are challenged on how to cover the crazies in Congress. Beneath the absurdity and craziness lurk threats to truth and democracy.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Jan. 18, 2021
Writers, athletes, politicians, actors, lawyers and activists weigh in on this most consequential unknown — what happens once Trump leaves office.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Nov. 8, 2020
For me, the most critical question to ask to figure out the answer will be: What were Trump voters reading, watching and listening to the past four years?
LAWFARE, Oct. 21, 2020
With indications that another hack-and-leak operation is likely, what would it take to make America more resilient against propaganda campaigns?
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, July 14, 2020
“Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President’s Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies” encapsulates the duplicity we’ve been subjected to these past 3½ years in a way that hopefully will deter our future leaders from thinking truth-telling is optional.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, June 28, 2020
The Trump administration’s battle with Silicon Valley over content moderation escalated when the Justice Department urged Congress to strip some immunity protections from social media platforms for content they host.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Aug. 31, 2019
Fewer than 15 months before the U.S. presidential election, there is shockingly little national discussion of how to prevent the Russians — and other adversaries — from attacking our democracy with another round of information warfare.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, March 22, 2018
Facebook’s sense of responsibility — or its abilities — has not grown in tandem with its influence. It has failed to anticipate threats. And when it solves one security problem, another pops up. It has already shown it cannot completely prevent its service from being used for bad purposes.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Dec. 5, 2017
President Trump appears to be inching closer to announcing he is beginning the process of relocating the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and declaring it Israel’s capital.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Oct. 27, 2017
When it comes to shaping our national discourse, there may be no institution with more influence than social media. There may be no institution as vulnerable to covert manipulation either.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Sept. 19, 2017
In his speech before the U.N. General Assembly, President Trump triggered gasps in the building when he declared if the United States “is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Aug. 31, 2017
Consuming the news is only going to become more complex if we don’t educate people about the difference between credible fact-based reporting and its opposite.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, April 13, 2017
In my career as a diplomatic and foreign correspondent, I have had the opportunity to interview many senior U.S. officials. It is essential to be prepared, focused on the most essential questions, and unafraid to ask the toughest ones.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, March 31, 2017
Israel has turned back ardent critics at the border before. But formalizing a political litmus test for entry shows just how threatened it feels by the boycott campaign and just how far to the right the country has moved.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, July 22, 2016
In summer 2009, I accompanied Clinton as Bloomberg News’ diplomatic correspondent on a 12-day, seven-country swing through Africa where she negotiated trade deals, lectured dictators on corruption and sought to shine a spotlight on rape.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, November 24, 2015
Iran said last Sunday that Jason Rezaian, a Bay Area native and Washington Post Tehran correspondent held in the country’s notorious Evin prison for more than 16 months, had been sentenced.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, February 13, 2015
Amid a wave of personal-data hackings, President Obama came to Silicon Valley on Friday to plead with technology firms to work with the government on what he called one of the “most serious economic national security challenges that we face as a nation.”
WASHINGTON POST, August 11, 2014
Israel wrapped up its ground offensive in Gaza last week and declared its tactical objective achieved: All of Hamas’s known “terror tunnels” were destroyed. But given the devastation this military operation caused in Gaza — hundreds of innocent Palestinians killed, thousands injured and displaced, whole neighborhoods flattened — and the cost to Israel in military casualties and international reputation, it’s worth asking: Was there another way to solve the problem?
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, March 8, 2014
As California’s drought took hold this winter, and farmers and officials bickered over water allocations, I wondered: Where are the Israelis? Nearly two decades ago, as a reporter based in Israel, I traveled around the country’s southern Negev Desert to investigate how Israelis were making a parched terrain bloom.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, October 21, 2013
Washington isn’t innovating. It isn’t evolving. It isn’t carrying out strategic thinking on how the U.S. economy is going to counterbalance the Chinese or how we are going to save our schools or how America is going to remain the world’s top cop or how – or if – we are going to save the planet. Luckily, in a dramatic shift westward, Silicon Valley, our most prosperous and innovative region, is trying to fill some of the void.
WASHINGTON POST, January 11, 2013
Riyadh’s Criminal Court is scheduled to announce a verdict Wednesday in a trial of two of Saudi Arabia’s leading human rights activists. Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani and Abdullah al-Hamid face 11 criminal charges, including tarnishing the reputation of the state and providing false information to international organizations about thousands of Saudis who have been arbitrarily detained.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, December 1, 2012
Social media is no longer simply a fun way to share updates on the harmless idiosyncrasies of our lives. It can undermine national security, and there ought to be a more robust discussion between the Bay Area technology world and Washington on what to do about it.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Oct. 27, 2017
When it comes to shaping our national discourse, there may be no institution with more influence than social media. There may be no institution as vulnerable to covert manipulation either.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Sept. 19, 2017
In his speech before the U.N. General Assembly, President Trump triggered gasps in the building when he declared if the United States “is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Aug. 31, 2017
Consuming the news is only going to become more complex if we don’t educate people about the difference between credible fact-based reporting and its opposite.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, April 13, 2017
In my career as a diplomatic and foreign correspondent, I have had the opportunity to interview many senior U.S. officials. It is essential to be prepared, focused on the most essential questions, and unafraid to ask the toughest ones.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, March 31, 2017
Israel has turned back ardent critics at the border before. But formalizing a political litmus test for entry shows just how threatened it feels by the boycott campaign and just how far to the right the country has moved.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, July 22, 2016
In summer 2009, I accompanied Clinton as Bloomberg News’ diplomatic correspondent on a 12-day, seven-country swing through Africa where she negotiated trade deals, lectured dictators on corruption and sought to shine a spotlight on rape.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, November 24, 2015
Iran said last Sunday that Jason Rezaian, a Bay Area native and Washington Post Tehran correspondent held in the country’s notorious Evin prison for more than 16 months, had been sentenced.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, February 13, 2015
Amid a wave of personal-data hackings, President Obama came to Silicon Valley on Friday to plead with technology firms to work with the government on what he called one of the “most serious economic national security challenges that we face as a nation.”
WASHINGTON POST, August 11, 2014
Israel wrapped up its ground offensive in Gaza last week and declared its tactical objective achieved: All of Hamas’s known “terror tunnels” were destroyed. But given the devastation this military operation caused in Gaza — hundreds of innocent Palestinians killed, thousands injured and displaced, whole neighborhoods flattened — and the cost to Israel in military casualties and international reputation, it’s worth asking: Was there another way to solve the problem?
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, March 8, 2014
As California’s drought took hold this winter, and farmers and officials bickered over water allocations, I wondered: Where are the Israelis? Nearly two decades ago, as a reporter based in Israel, I traveled around the country’s southern Negev Desert to investigate how Israelis were making a parched terrain bloom.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, October 21, 2013
Washington isn’t innovating. It isn’t evolving. It isn’t carrying out strategic thinking on how the U.S. economy is going to counterbalance the Chinese or how we are going to save our schools or how America is going to remain the world’s top cop or how – or if – we are going to save the planet. Luckily, in a dramatic shift westward, Silicon Valley, our most prosperous and innovative region, is trying to fill some of the void.
WASHINGTON POST, January 11, 2013
Riyadh’s Criminal Court is scheduled to announce a verdict Wednesday in a trial of two of Saudi Arabia’s leading human rights activists. Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani and Abdullah al-Hamid face 11 criminal charges, including tarnishing the reputation of the state and providing false information to international organizations about thousands of Saudis who have been arbitrarily detained.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, December 1, 2012
Social media is no longer simply a fun way to share updates on the harmless idiosyncrasies of our lives. It can undermine national security, and there ought to be a more robust discussion between the Bay Area technology world and Washington on what to do about it.