Opinion

The City That Showed Up

That’s what democracy looks like when it’s not a speech or a bumper sticker but a reflex — an instinct…

3 days ago

ICE Violence Forces a Reckoning in Los Angeles

It's about time that our leaders stood beside us. Not with well-written internet posts or calls for calm and peace.…

4 weeks ago

Order or Oppression?

Analysts like Monika Bauerlein of Mother Jones contend that the transition to fascism is “not over” because citizens still possess…

1 month ago

The Case for a New County

A county that can help reduce LA’s responsibilities to a manageable scale, and strengthen local representation, and finally provide focused…

2 months ago

Who Should be in Charge of the Transformation into an AI World?

Based on our investigation and other information that we are gathering, my staff and I will soon be presenting a…

2 months ago

‘A Direct Attack on the Freedom of Speech’: Trump Takes On Higher Ed

While the corporate media chose to gloss over the full extent to which the proposal undermined free expression, thousands of…

3 months ago

Holiday Reflections and Revolutionary Legacies―Child, Davis, Cullors and the Work of Justice

The work of the likes of Indivisible, the Harbor Area Peace Patrol, and Black Lives Matter Grassroots is doing the…

3 months ago

When Algorithms Break the News

We quickly determined that not only were all of the “potentially significant” news stories on the chatbot’s list fabricated, but…

3 months ago

No Kings — From Our Smallest Towns to Our Largest Cities

When the founders stood up to King George, they were told it was impossible. But they won. When abolitionists fought…

4 months ago

“Is ICE Planning My Deportation? A Citizen’s Crisis in a Post-Constitutional America”

The terrifying irony is that, as a U.S.-born citizen, I now fear the agency originally created to expel those without…

5 months ago