VOICES

ACCORDING TO LIZ - This could have been the headline of one of any number of articles published in the last couple of years. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - We Americans like to think of ourselves as a thoroughly modern people — living proof of what, with enough toil and grit, the rest of the free world can one day hope to be.

GUEST COMMENTARY - The personal, as they say, is political. And there’s nothing more personal than the right to control your own body.

MY THOUGHTS - In the sixties, I was 21 years old, married and had a full-time job as an Associate Editor on a small trade magazine. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - On April 21^st I went to the Top Notch Diner in Cortland OH. Senate candidate Josh Mandel appeared with retired General Michael Flynn, former National Security Advisor in the Trump administration.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS - Exacerbated by the news that this summer the Supreme Court is poised to overturn a half a century of precedent by declaring Roe unconstitutional, men must leave the sidelines in this national reproductive rights emergency.

GUEST COMMENTARY - The future shape of post-Covid America is beginning to emerge. As demographic trends and surveys indicate, the pandemic has helped accelerate large, epochal changes in the nation’s geography.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS - I cannot imagine what it is like to be a woman in the United States of America today.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Reports about what has been the most horrific assault yet on human rights by the US Supreme Court in modern times started trickling out on Monday. Our fears and imaginations ran rampant. 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Preliminary Note about Roe vs Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)

SCOTUS - The Politico release of the unprecedented leak of the initial draft majority opinion that indicates the Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade has unleashed a tidal wave of responses from politicians.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Despite its boys’ club origins, science fiction long exhibited a leftist streak.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Keep On Truckin’” was an iconic underground cartoon created in 1968 by comic master Robert Crumb.

UNION WATCH - "Starbucks has this image of being a progressive company that takes care of its employees.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Everyone is fond of quoting Einstein, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” 

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Four hundred people died from gun violence in the United States in the first four days of 2022.

GUEST COMMENTARY - For most Democrats throughout deep blue L.A. County, the incumbent Sheriff is a disaster whose misconduct each day escalates the urgency to replace him.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Los Angeles has no legacy of democracy.  The city government does not even attempt to have the traditional separation of powers since the city makes the laws and then enforces its laws or ignores its own laws. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition filed a public records lawsuit today confronting City Councilmember Paul Koretz's failure to respond to a public records request regarding his office’s communications with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a nonprofit political association that works with government surveillance agencies. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - As wars rage, as cruelty shatters lives across the planet — as nuclear Armageddon remains a viable option for all of us — I think it’s time to claim some stunning awareness in this regard.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Land ownership has shaped civilizations from their beginnings, with a constant interplay between great powers—the aristocracy, the state, the Church, the emperor—and those below them.