Saturday Night Live’s complicated political legacy
The right has long despised the legendary sketch show for its supposed “liberal bias.” But the show’s history tells a ...
A Look At SNL Season 50’s Most Iconic Moments
Season 50 was full of viral moments, cameos and not to be missed sketches. Take a look back before the 'Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special.' ...
We found the Chronicle’s first Nancy Pelosi photos. They had a surprising twist
A local icon. A symbol of San Francisco politics. A Speaker emerita. A matriarch. A badass. So when retired Chronicle librarian Bill Van Niekerken found 1972 photos of the former Speaker of the House ...
California’s big, storied past gets a nuanced, superbly researched retelling in one volume
Michael Hiltzik tells California's story with a journalist’s reluctance to take anything at face value and a distrust of ...
How Linda McMahon’s mission to dismantle the Education Department could affect California
Linda McMahon, President Trump’s education secretary nominee, wants to dismantle the department. What that means for ...
Trump's counter-revolutions are already changing the face of the US
The Trump administration is striving, not without brutality, to purge the federal state, impose societal conservatism, and ...