My quarantine house holds three generations | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
Somehow, in a blip of conformity during the 1950s, the multigenerational family came to be stigmatized.
Bill Gates is the most interesting man in the world | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
“It tires me to talk to rich men,” said Teddy Roosevelt, himself a product of wealth. “You expect a man of millions, the head of...
I wasted my vote in a state that finally matters | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
My experience is shared by millions of people, especially in California, who voted before the landscape shifted sharply. In essence, we are disenfranchised by our...
The American experiment is not dead | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
The big story of the American experiment, a nation that is not an ethnic, racial or religious state but an idea, is not dead. It’s...
How the insufferably woke help President Trump | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
It’s no mystery why so many Democrats can no longer connect to the white working class. Progressives promise free college, free health care, free child...
Why doesn’t Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg get it? | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
If Facebook were a religion, it would be the world’s largest faith, with just under a third of the planet, 2.4 billion people, tied into...
The West Coast is crushing it against Trump | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
Using the law to fight a bully, the Constitution to challenge an authoritarian, and facts against Fox News-driven fantasy, California, Oregon and Washington have stalled...
The beginning of the end of America’s best idea | Tim Egan / Syndicated columnist
AGOURA HILLS, Calif. — When I was a little kid I passed through a ghost forest in Montana, the blackened, standing skeletons of the largest...
Down and Out in San Francisco on $117,000 | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
The entire West Coast, from San Diego to Vancouver, British Columbia, is a string of gilded megalopolises. These are the tomorrow cities — the tech...
The secret life and value of trees | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
In this moment of mercenary politics, those of us who are out-proud tree-huggers have taken to citing the bottom line. The clean water, timber, cultural...