Before co-founding Salon.com, Gary Kamiya was at the San Francisco Examiner for five years, where he worked with David Talbot as senior editor at the paper's Sunday magazine, Image. He also served as the paper's book editor and critic at large, writing critical essays and reviews of books, movies, music, theater and art. Before that he helped found Frisko magazine, where he was senior writer. Kamiya's writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, ArtForum, and Sports Illustrated, among many other publications. He holds an M.A. from U.C. Berkeley, which awarded him its top undergraduate award in English literature, the Mark Schorer Citation, in 1983.

Gary Kamiya's Salon stories

Friday, Jul 31, 2009 03:25 PDT

The sick fight over healthcare

A too-cautious Obama has let the right define the debate -- and now meaningful reform hangs in the balance
Thursday, Jul 9, 2009 03:18 PDT

The poison of celebrity

While the ersatz mourning for Michael Jackson was merely annoying, the fame of lightweight Sarah Palin is dangerous
Thursday, Jul 2, 2009 03:27 PDT

Californians are sinking themselves

An inflexible right wing is allowing the Golden State to drown in debt. But it's not alone
Thursday, Jun 25, 2009 03:25 PDT

The strange nakedness of Mark Sanford

He was an emotional wreck at his press conference, but also something philandering politicians rarely are: Human
Thursday, Jun 18, 2009 16:18 PDT

Night of the living neocons

The shameless fools whose Iraq folly empowered Iran's hard-liners are back, smearing Obama as an appeaser
Thursday, Jun 11, 2009 03:30 PDT

The Fiat-ization of the American male

Can a nation of dudes whose sexual self-image was built on macho Jeeps survive the rise of the Little Mouse?
Friday, Jun 5, 2009 03:40 PDT

Obama changes the Middle East

This American president's empathy with the Arab/Muslim world could be a crucial first step in brokering peace.
Thursday, Jun 4, 2009 03:28 PDT

Obama's Cairo mission: Don't be Bush

Five disastrous Middle East policies that the president must show he's rejected.
Thursday, May 28, 2009 03:28 PDT

In the shadow of Cheney

Obama could spring America from the dank culture of fear spread by Cheney and Bush. So what's holding him back?
Thursday, May 28, 2009 03:28 PDT

In the shadow of Cheney

Obama could spring America from the dank culture of fear spread by Cheney and Bush. So what's holding him back?
Thursday, May 28, 2009 03:28 PDT

In the shadow of Cheney

Obama could spring America from the dank culture of fear spread by Cheney and Bush. So what's holding him back?
Thursday, May 28, 2009 03:28 PDT

In the shadow of Cheney

Obama could spring America from the dank culture of fear spread by Cheney and Bush. So what's holding him back?
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 03:20 PDT

Obama's coming collision with Netanyahu

American politicians hate to confront Israel. But here's why Obama will.
Friday, May 1, 2009 03:45 PDT

America's necessary dark night of the soul

We need to investigate the Bush years, even if it means tearing the country -- and ourselves -- apart.
Wednesday, Apr 29, 2009 03:35 PDT

Obama and race: Silence is golden

The president has dramatically improved race relations -- by not talking about race.
Thursday, Apr 23, 2009 03:21 PDT

Torture works sometimes -- but it's always wrong

The "ticking bomb" scenario only happens on TV. Those, like Dick Cheney, who cite it are leading society down a fatal slippery slope of abuse.
Sunday, Apr 19, 2009 04:24 PDT

How I learned to love (and hate) "American Idol"

For seven years I ignored the world's biggest pop culture spectacle. But thanks to my daughter -- and the stunningly original Adam Lambert -- I finally caved.
Friday, Apr 17, 2009 03:53 PDT

Leonard Cohen's perfect offering

The great songwriter is old now. But as closing time approaches, his poetic fire burns brighter than ever.
Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 03:38 PDT

Ward Churchill's win is scholarship's loss

The ethnic studies professor should not have been fired for speaking out about 9/11. The problem remains his slanted work on Native American history.
Tuesday, Apr 7, 2009 03:36 PDT

They're coming to take our guns away

Cop killer Richard Poplawski is an extremist. But amid the deafening din of the right wing's anti-government rhetoric, how extreme is he?
Friday, Apr 3, 2009 03:40 PDT

Jesus is just alright with him

To the author of "Jesus Interrupted," the man from Galilee was a radical Jewish prophet, not God. But in an interview, Bart Ehrman says history doesn't have to undermine Christian faith.
Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 14:32 PDT

Oakland mourns

A long blue line of police officers, backed by a grieving city, gather to say goodbye to four cops who died doing their jobs.
Tuesday, Mar 24, 2009 03:51 PDT

Uprising on Main Street

Today's populist rage could regenerate America -- if Obama handles it right.
Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 03:19 PDT

Obama's Middle East moment of truth

His diplomatic moves are a good start. But does he have the will to challenge Israel?
Tuesday, Mar 10, 2009 03:56 PDT

John Yoo is sorry for nothing

Sneering with contempt, the unrepentant Bush attorney has challenged "Obama's antiwar base" to read his infamous memos closely. So I did.
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