People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.

The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.