Latest posts by Maureen Erwin

Searching for proof of Amy

Maureen Erwin March 30, 2017 1:00 am

There’s a powerhouse advocate of President Donald Trump on Twitter. She doesn’t hold back. She has 144,000 Twitter followers and tweets about 26 times a day. Her name is “Amy,” »

Modern warfare looks nothing like it once did

Maureen Erwin March 2, 2017 1:00 am

Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the Democrat serving as vice-chair of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, recently expressed how concerned he is that we fully investigate how Russia interfered »

What would Sun Tzu do?

Maureen Erwin February 16, 2017 1:00 am

Sun Tzu, the Chinese military general and tactician born in 544 BC, advised: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred »

Can San Francisco rely on tech leaders to recognize and resist global catastrophe?

Maureen Erwin February 2, 2017 1:00 am

Tech companies have a libertarian streak that we sometimes find in conflict with San Francisco values. Libertarians often describe their political philosophy in terms of broad, personal and economic liberty. »

Open-source voting is the answer to hacking concerns

Maureen Erwin January 19, 2017 1:00 am

Will we ever have a voting system that is completely error-proof and impenetrable from malicious forces? Not likely. But the security breaches that are increasingly a part of daily life »

In a post-truth era, San Francisco can fight back with media literacy

Maureen Erwin January 5, 2017 1:00 am

As we enter an era in which our nation will be led by an individual who is openly hostile to advances made in civil rights, health care access and environmental »

How Scott Wiener narrowly defeated Jane Kim for state Senate

Maureen Erwin December 9, 2016 1:00 am

After narrowly pulling off a win in the June primary against Scott Wiener, how did Jane Kim lose the November election — by about 14 votes per precinct — for »

Is money in politics a problem?

Maureen Erwin November 24, 2016 1:00 am

Is money in politics a problem? Most people agree that it is. Yet just a slight majority — 53 percent — recently voted to affirm California’s Proposition 59, an advisory »

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