VOICES

GUEST COMMENTARY - A new article in the Washington Post reveals that Invitation Homes, one of the largest corporate landlords in the United States, is continuing its shameful treatment of tenants. 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Politicos love to incorrectly call America a democracy because democracies place no constraint on the power of a politico who claims a mandate by virtue of receiving a majority of votes. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Do rich people owe their success to luck? The iconic business magazine Fortune has just put the spotlight on a new book with a new take on how much good fortune contributes to grand fortunes.

GUEST COMMENTARY - The muted response from the White House following the July 4 mass shooting at a parade in Highland Park,

 HIGHLAND PARK MEMOIRS - I heard about it from my daughter, Sarah, in Chicago.

POLITICAL FIREWORKS - They say that the amount of air pollution after the July 4th fireworks extravaganza all across Los Angeles is about three to four times as bad as the air quality would be normally.

GUEST COMMENTARY - I’ve made my own choices along the path of life — spiritual, mental, physical.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Everything in life is a gamble but some things are more risky than others. 

REPLACEMENT THEORY - There is absolutely nothing "great" about the "Great Replacement." It is nothing new either.

GUEST COMMENTARY - In addition to being a child of communists, an immigrant, a pot-smoking Jewish Yippie, a friend to Black Panthers, a woman who slept with America’s enemy, a prime suspect in a famous bombing, and a woman who tried to bend her sexual boundaries, I’ve also had an abortion.

LA REPAIR ZONES -  “Los Angeles has some of the lowest income and highest need areas in the country resulting from years of structural and institutional racism.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Ready, aim, fire: “I believe in Jesus, guns and babies.”

GUEST COMMENTARY - Joe Biden may have once bragged about his cooperative relations with segregationists, but he still arguably owes more to African-American leadership and voters than any politician in recent history.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - While Sen Howard Baker’s June 1973 Watergate question, “What did the President know and when did he know it?,” is pertinent to Trump, that question may be more relevant to associates like Mark Meadows, his Chief of staff, and to Pat Cipollone, White House Counsel to the President. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Recently the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which granted women the constitutional right to abortion, and the other ruling nullified a century-old New York law that forbid New Yorkers from carrying firearms in public.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Today the United States celebrates its official 246^th birthday. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - With the Supreme Court’s expected decision to overturn Roe v. Wade threatening to severely curtail women’s reproductive rights, it might seem an odd moment to report good news about male birth control.

EDUCATION WATCH - The U.S. Supreme Court has consistently banned school-sponsored prayer in public schools.

JAN 6 COMMITTEE - Trump White House insider and January 6 Committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson provided startling and compelling evidence that Donald Trump deliberately set out to incite an insurrection at the Capitol.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - These are the words of Justice Elena Kagan in her dissent about the current Supreme Court’s overreach in taking the side of Big Oil in West Virginia v. EPA. 

GUN VIOLENCE - The spate of mass shootings we've witnessed over the past few weeks has jolted our minds and broken our hearts.