At Length

Roots of Radical Traditions

This is a time for the reset button on our liberties where we have the temerity to ask “What exactly…

4 months ago

American Ideals are Still Radical

  The Orange Felon is trying to reverse the last 100 years of progressive change As national radio commentator Thom…

5 months ago

Tariff Tantrum, Tourism and BS

According to the LA Tourism and Convention Board, the worries are rippling across a local tourism and hospitality industry that…

5 months ago

A Prophet for Change

And while we are on the topic of religion, and this is Easter and Passover, it may be time to…

6 months ago

Gutting the Kennedy Center

It’s the Bill of Rights’ guarantee of freedom of expression. Without that protection — that first of our freedoms —…

6 months ago

Remember the Promise to Lower Prices on Day One? ― It’s time for a third impeachment

I was sitting at my favorite coffee shop on Sixth Street drinking espresso the other day watching a young woman…

7 months ago

Talking Trade, Kool-Aid and Gaslighting ― A Barstool Debate on Tariffs, Robots, and Reality

The problem is that even though this is a kind of performative political theater, real consequences will come. It will…

7 months ago

Unified by a Common Enemy

What we are seeing today in reaction to the fires and the coup is that at our core the average…

8 months ago

Tyranny and Chaos

A free democratic nation cannot remain free without a free and unfettered press, the founding fathers warned. And yet we…

8 months ago

From Fiction to Reality

Yet, Jan. 20, 2025 was presaged by a long-forgotten 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel called, It Can’t Happen Here. And now…

9 months ago