Editorials

The Dawning of the Second Enlightenment

By Sophie Daushvili LMFT In the midst of a flurry of doomsday warnings, perhaps a slightly different look on the…

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The Danger Isn’t That AI Is Too Smart—It’s That It’s Stupid

  “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” read…

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Letters to the Editor: License Plate Surveillance and Tyranny, Alive and Well in Long Beach

License Plate Readers Put Privacy in the Crosshairs To say that the electorate is angry is an understatement, as is…

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Art in Democracy is Essential

  Most of the time, it’s only reported at market value “Art is the great democrat,” wrote President John F.…

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California Progressive Group Endorses 2026 Ballot Slate

  By Angela Chavez Courage California announced its YES endorsements of propositions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 40 – and…

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No Kings Shifts From Protest to Power at the Polls

  “No Kings: Vote Early is a different tactic,” said Kristi Fischer, with Indivisible Long Beach. “This No Kings is…

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When Oligarchs Control the Culture, Free Speech Pays the Price

“Curtailing free expression by threatening one’s livelihood is especially dangerous for artists, who feel deeply and often reflect cultural shifts…

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State Supreme Court Reigns In Rogue Sheriff In Ballot Seizure Case

  The California Supreme Court has unanimously rejected San Bernardino Sheriff Chad Bianco’s attempt to seize ballots in violation of…

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Erasing the Record: The Trump Administration’s Drive to Control US History

https://www.projectcensored.org/erasing-the-record-the-trump-control-us-history/?doing_wp_cron=1790017193.9375860691070556640625   By Steve Macek, Sept. 17  On Sept. 8, historian Lonnie G. Bunch III announced that he was resigning as…

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A New System of Labor Threatens Farmworker Power

Farmworkers began harvesting watermelons as soon as there was enough light to see, in a field near Arvin, California, in…

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