Opinion

Jackson Confirmation Hearing Proves GOP Has No Interest in Making America a Better Place

There’s a reason the GOP refuses to publish a party platform or legislative agenda: they don’t have one, beyond doing…

4 years ago

Who Is Rick Caruso? The Man vs. The Ads

Looking at his website and reading some of his biography, this does not appear to be the case, but the…

4 years ago

Biden’s Unhinged Call for Regime Change in Russia

Activists have a special role to play — by emphatically insisting that members of Congress and the Biden administration must…

4 years ago

Diplomacy Only Option in Ukraine

There is no good reason to think that righteousness will bring an end to the bloodshed. The history of conflicts…

4 years ago

America Is Dangerously Out of Balance and Needs Self-Reliance

Thanks to neoliberal “free trade” policies, we can’t build aircraft or cars or even advanced weapons without components sourced from…

4 years ago

Profiteering Foreign Shipping Companies Versus U.S. Workers

By Frank Ponce De Leon, ILWU Coast Committeeman The multi-billion-dollar foreign container shipping industry has profited mightily during the pandemic…

4 years ago

On Phasing out Oil in Long Beach

By Miles Aiello, Founder of the OTTER  Coalition It was a beautiful day with little clouds in the sky on…

4 years ago

Op/Ed Reflection’s On This Year’s Palestine Day – By A Former Israeli Refusenik

It was my first time listening to Palestinian folk songs. The lyrics had the same themes as Hebrew folk songs…

4 years ago

Op-ed: Oil Spill Shows Why We Need Climate Investments in Build Back Better Act

As a major oil spill off the coast of Southern California dumps oil into the Pacific Ocean, closes beaches and…

4 years ago

Vacation Rental Ordinance

By Kevin James In 2018, the City of Los Angeles adopted its Home-Sharing Ordinance which requires that short-term rentals must…

4 years ago