VOICES

GUEST COMMENTARY - During the past few months, I have been watching the January 6^th Select Committee Hearings. 

GUN LEGISLATION - You may find this shocking, but a little over a decade ago I spent a weekend learning how to shoot a handgun — under the auspices of the NRA.

LA HOUSING CRISIS - NIMBYs.  We’re everywhere, from Chatsworth to Boyle Heights, from Venice to Griffith Park. 

MY THOUGHTS - Just when all the naysayers have us convinced the USA is going to Hell in two very large wheelbarrows (after all we are two very polarized political sectors) something good happens. 

ACCORDING TO LIZ - In what could be a game changer for slowing climate change,

ECONOMY - Republicans believe their laser focus on inflation in the midterms will override voter anger over the attempted coup;

THE ECONOMY - Oligarchs of the dominate economic class in the United States continue to pour billions of dollars into the pockets of politicians.

GUEST COMMENTARY - It’s popular today to talk about the “common good” or the “public good.”

GUEST COMMENTARY - At a time of children with popsicle-covered faces running around and summer music festivals– many are celebrating the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

IMMIGRATION WATCH - Amid the bustle of Tijuana, the average onlooker might miss the bulge in Claudia’s belly.

GUEST COMMENTARY - I consider the survival of National Socialism within democracy to be potentially more menacing than the survival of fascist tendencies against democracy.  –Theodor Adorno 1959

THE VIEW FROM HERE - No one will ask any witness whether Donald Trump is mentally ill. 

ACCORDING TO LIZ - When you give a man a gun, the result is almost always killing and death.

THE ONE PERCENT - If Dustin Hoffman should ever do a remake of The Graduate, the classic 1967 film that launched his famed cinematic career, what might be the 2020s update for that film’s most iconic exchange?

CONTEMPT TRIAL - If you are tired of waiting for Attorney General Merrick Garland to indict Donald Trump for seditious conspiracy, insurrection, obstruction of Congress, or any other crime involving the attempt to overturn the 2020 election,

GUEST COMMENTARY - A diverse crowd, representing more than a dozen organizations, streamed into a meeting here to raise money for medical aid for Cuba and to show opposition to the US Blockade.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Here’s how all group rights work.  A leader claims that if people follow him/her, then he/she will make certain everything is A-OK. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - As we enter yet another political season where we continue to witness alarming polarization and seemingly no unifying themes, it is disheartening to see the United States disintegrate further into “us and them” rhetoric. 

GRAND OLD PARTY - Perhaps you remember Senator Barry Goldwater, the GOP’s fringy, far-right-wing 1964 presidential nominee who famously said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.”

GUEST COMMENTARY - Much of my adult life has been spent homeless or incarcerated. Now I help homeless people and returning citizens.

POLITICAL LANDSCAPE - These are strange times in American politics. Slowly but surely, the Democrats have been losing their historically working class and multi-racial base, with Hispanics in particular drifting Right.