“Feminism and the Common Good: The California Health Care Case,” Dissent, Winter 1997
“Mime Troupe Show Lacks Essential Ingredient: Politics,” Review of San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Veronique of the Mounties, Berkeley Daily Planet, July 18, 2003
“Nowhere Woman,” Review of Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy, edited by Arlie Russell Hochschild and Barbara Ehrenreich, Dissent, Spring 2004
“Jane Jacobs, Democrat With a Small ‘D’,” Berkeley Daily Planet, May 25, 2004
“Governing Berkeley by Questionnaire and Fiat,” Berkeley Daily Planet, April 12, 2005
“Planners’ Alchemy,” Berkeley Daily Planet, July 19, 2005
“Mao Spelled Backwards,” Berkeley Daily Planet, August 16, 2005
“Why Bother With Environmental Impact Reports?,” Berkeley Daily Planet, November 8, 2005
“The University of California and the Walmart Effect,” Berkeley Daily Planet, December 6, 2005
“Is Berkeley on the Verge of a Civic Identity Crisis?“, Berkeley Daily Planet, February 7, 2006
“A Pro-Business, Pro-Berkeley Agenda,” Berkeley Daily Planet, June 30, 2006
“Welcome to Animal Farm,” Berkeley Daily Planet, June 26, 2007
“The Theater of Gentrification,” Review of Danny Hoch’s solo show at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, Berkeley Daily Planet, February 12, 2008
“Mayor Bates: Raise City Manager Salary to $232,020 (And Counting),” Berkeley Daily Planet, January 22, 2009
“The City Manager’s Raise: Fact and Fiction,” Berkeley Daily Planet, February 11, 2009
“East Bay Green Corridor: Green for All?,” Part One, BeyondChron, July 7, 2009
“East Bay Green Corridor: Green for All?,” Part Two, BeyondChron, July 13, 2009
“Politics’ Fatal Therapeutic Turn,” Dissent, Summer 2011
“Berkeley’s ‘New’ Downtown: Behind the Brand,” BeyondChron, April 30, 2012
“Cooperation and Cunning,” Review of Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation, by Richard Sennett, Dissent, Summer 2012
“The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951,” Review of exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, BeyondChron, November 28, 2012