Opinion Archive: Debra Saunders
- Herman Cain: 9-9-9 Meets 1-2-3 — Thursday, November 3, 2011
- Oakland Drowning in Social Justice — Tuesday, November 1, 2011
- Student Loans -- Forgive and Forget — Sunday, October 30, 2011
- The Case for Republican Panic — Thursday, October 27, 2011
- Gridlock Government — Tuesday, October 25, 2011
- Libya: Mission Vindicated — Sunday, October 23, 2011
- Gilad Schalit Versus the Freed Hikers — Thursday, October 20, 2011
- Scrapping CLASS Act Is the Right Thing to Do — Tuesday, October 18, 2011
- Barack Obama, Drug Warrior — Sunday, October 16, 2011
- Pop Goes the Green Jobs Bubble — Thursday, October 13, 2011
- A Field in Which Obama Takes No Prisoners — Tuesday, October 11, 2011
- Occupy Wall Street: All Bite, No Apple — Sunday, October 9, 2011
- Obama Plan Makes Social Security Look Like Welfare — Thursday, October 6, 2011
- San Francisco Supes Take Unnecessary Flier on Bird Safety — Tuesday, October 4, 2011
- Is Mitt Romney the Next Meg Whitman? — Sunday, October 2, 2011
- Health Care Taxing America's Workers — Thursday, September 29, 2011
- A Total Eclipse of Solyndra — Tuesday, September 27, 2011
- Stockholm Syndrome From Tehran — Sunday, September 25, 2011
- Release of Prop. 8 Tapes Shows Judicial Hubris — Thursday, September 22, 2011
- A 'Fair Share' of an Anemic Economy — Tuesday, September 20, 2011
- Rick Perry's Bad -- Mixing Sex, Power and Mandates — Sunday, September 18, 2011
- San Francisco -- the Naked City — Thursday, September 15, 2011
- Gov. Jerry Brown and 3 Telling Bills — Tuesday, September 13, 2011
- Perry Punches at GOP Debate -- Both Hits and Misses — Friday, September 9, 2011
- Are Scientists Becoming the New Priests? — Wednesday, September 7, 2011
- Solyndra Debacle Spotlights Obama's Folly — Sunday, September 4, 2011
- Jobless Workers — Thursday, September 1, 2011
- The Near Death of a Convicted Terrorist — Tuesday, August 30, 2011
- Perry Delivers on Texas Death Penalty — Sunday, August 28, 2011
- BART Protesters' Oppression Envy — Thursday, August 25, 2011
- Obama's Lowest Priority: Some Deportation Cases — Tuesday, August 23, 2011
- Corn, Scorn and Forlorn in Iowa — Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- Castro Valley Boulevard Redevelops, but to What? — Sunday, August 14, 2011
- National Popular Vote -- Law or Ploy? — Thursday, August 11, 2011
- Ed Lee Still Will Be Ed Lee -- but Which Ed Lee? — Tuesday, August 9, 2011
- Their Ways on the Airways — Sunday, August 7, 2011
- Are GOP Presidential Hopefuls Really Serious? — Thursday, August 4, 2011
- House Raises the Ceiling — Tuesday, August 2, 2011
- In This Brave New World, 160 Million Girls Are 'Missing' — Sunday, July 31, 2011
- The Folly in Obama's 'Grand Bargain' — Thursday, July 28, 2011
- Norwegian Crime and Punishment — Tuesday, July 26, 2011
- Pawlenty's Appeal to GOP: I Won't Embarrass You — Sunday, July 24, 2011
- Getting Headaches and Giving Them — Thursday, July 21, 2011
- U.S. Default Wouldn't Be Carmageddon II — Tuesday, July 19, 2011
- Not Cruel and Unusual, but Costly, Punishment — Sunday, July 17, 2011
- Obama's Debt Ceiling 'Grand Bargain' No Such Thing — Thursday, July 14, 2011
- Harry Potter and the Wizardry of Engaging Readers — Tuesday, July 12, 2011
- Bohemian Grove -- Men Only — Sunday, July 10, 2011
- U.S. and Europe Listing in the Same Boat — Thursday, July 7, 2011
- Herman Cain's 'Amateur Hour' — Sunday, June 19, 2011
- Feinstein vs. Coburn-Feinstein — Thursday, June 16, 2011
- California's Choice: Clarity or Gridlock — Tuesday, June 14, 2011
- At Least 4 Good Reasons to End the War on Drugs — Sunday, June 12, 2011
- Let Weiner Be Weiner — Thursday, June 9, 2011
- John Edwards, Campaign Reformer — Tuesday, June 7, 2011
- America's Long Slide from 9/11 to Crown Beach — Sunday, June 5, 2011
- Circumcision and the Special City — Thursday, June 2, 2011
- John Walker Lindh Is Guilty — Tuesday, May 31, 2011
- Soft-on-Crime Cycle Repeats — Sunday, May 29, 2011
- Are Voters as Stupid as Insiders Think? — Thursday, May 26, 2011
- Supreme Court's Scary Power Grab — Tuesday, May 24, 2011
- The Tale of the Governator and the Baby — Wednesday, May 18, 2011
- Ensign Disgraced Himself and Senate — Tuesday, May 17, 2011
- Sarah Palin's Birther Baptism by Fire — Sunday, May 15, 2011
- Immigration Flight Clutters the Path — Thursday, May 12, 2011
- Obama Values: Kill But Don't Waterboard — Tuesday, May 10, 2011
- Brown Wants to Cut Prison Population by a Fifth — Sunday, May 8, 2011
- Insecure Communities — Thursday, May 5, 2011
- Bin Laden Fall Means Afghanistan Spring — Tuesday, May 3, 2011
- Intolerant Left Strikes Again — Sunday, May 1, 2011
- Happy Birth Certificate, Mr. President — Thursday, April 28, 2011
- What Would Jesus Cut? — Tuesday, April 26, 2011
- Cult of 'Three Cups of Tea' Should Have Known Better — Sunday, April 24, 2011
- No Poking President at Facebook — Thursday, April 21, 2011
- The War on Users of Cold, Allergy Drugs — Tuesday, April 19, 2011
- Department of Obstruction of Justice — Sunday, April 17, 2011
- Romney and Obama -- Bipartisan Brothers — Thursday, April 14, 2011
- Academic Mission or UCLA Speech Code? — Tuesday, April 12, 2011
- GOP: Do Less, but Better; Dems: Do a Lot, and Worse — Sunday, April 10, 2011
- Immelt, the Jobs Czar From Hell — Tuesday, April 5, 2011
- 'No Blood for Oil' Is for Sale! — Sunday, April 3, 2011
- They All Fall Down — Thursday, March 31, 2011
- Let Voters Decide on Pensions, Spending — Tuesday, March 29, 2011
- Gadhafi -- the Mad Dog Who Trumped the World — Sunday, March 27, 2011
- Why Sacramento Can't Get Cellphones Out of Prison — Thursday, March 24, 2011
- Dud Deals in California — Tuesday, March 22, 2011
- Few Angels in the Budget Brawl — Sunday, March 20, 2011
- Golf, Cocaine and Budget Talk — Thursday, March 17, 2011
- Obama at Wheel of Father's Oldsmobile — Tuesday, March 15, 2011
- National Public Racket — Sunday, March 13, 2011
- Brown at the Brink — Thursday, March 10, 2011
- In Wisconsin and Washington, Broke Ain't Broke — Tuesday, March 8, 2011
- First the Public Service, Then Endless Litigation — Sunday, March 6, 2011
- Who Wants to Be Charlie Sheen? — Thursday, March 3, 2011
- Tax or Spend? The Final Chapter — Tuesday, March 1, 2011
- The Cheesehead Rubicon — Sunday, February 27, 2011
- Sutter Brown -- Unleashed — Thursday, February 24, 2011
- Human Nature and D.C.-backed Loans — Sunday, February 20, 2011
- Birthers, Truthers and Spreaders — Thursday, February 17, 2011
- NPR, PBS Federal Subsidies Should Go — Tuesday, February 15, 2011
- Berkeley Does Guantanamo — Sunday, February 13, 2011
- AOL/HuffPo Meet Corporate Greed — Thursday, February 10, 2011
- PC Military Fails to Detect Fort Hood Shooter — Wednesday, February 9, 2011
- Green Jobs Are Not Evergreen Jobs — Sunday, February 6, 2011
- Do-gooders Mobilize Against Free Speech — Thursday, February 3, 2011
- A Spending Problem and a Debt Problem — Tuesday, February 1, 2011
- Where Judicial Activism Morphs Into Disregard — Sunday, January 30, 2011
- Obama's Take on U.S. Innovation — Thursday, January 27, 2011
- Jerry Brown Takes on Redevelopment — Sunday, January 23, 2011
- GOP House Right to Vote to Repeal — Thursday, January 20, 2011
- Gary Johnson's Plate of Choice Cuts — Wednesday, January 19, 2011
- What Makes Brown Think He Can Get a Tax Increase? — Sunday, January 16, 2011
- No Off Button on Sarah Palin — Thursday, January 13, 2011
- The First Casualty Is Not Partisanship — Tuesday, January 11, 2011
- The Oddity — Sunday, January 9, 2011
- Governator Flubbed His Exit, Won't Be Back — Thursday, January 6, 2011
- Sacramento -- Can Jerry Brown Do It? — Tuesday, January 4, 2011
- Intimidation and Tyranny — Sunday, January 2, 2011
About Debra Saunders
In 2002, the prestigious National Journal's "Talking Heads" column listed Debra J. Saunders as a member of the A-team of the top political journalists working outside the Beltway. Vaughn Ververs wrote: "An independent voice working for a left-leaning newspaper, Saunders covers California and national politics, as well as the state's political personalities. Her column is frequently a welcome change in tone from the rest of the editorial page, and she regularly throws punches at both sides."
Saunders became a columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle in 1992. Her column runs three times weekly. Before joining The Chronicle, Saunders worked as a columnist and editorial writer for the Los Angeles Daily News for five years.
Saunders' column is syndicated through Creators Syndicate and runs in newspapers throughout the country. In addition to writing her column, Saunders has written pieces that have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard and National Review. She frequently appears on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. Her book, The World According to Gore, published by Encounter Books, was released in 2000.
Saunders' political experience includes stints working as a writer/researcher and account executive for Russo Watts & Rollins in Sacramento, California, and Todd Domke Associates in Boston. With both organizations, her political work included research, issues strategy and advertising in U.S. Senate and congressional races. In addition, Saunders also worked for the Republican leader of the California Assembly.
In 1992, Saunders taught a course in editorial and column writing at UCLA Extension, and led a study group on political speechmaking at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 1984. In 1980, Saunders graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts at Boston with a B.A. in Greek and Latin.
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