VOICES

COMMENTARY - War has begun in Ukraine and where it heads next is uncertain.

RUSSIA WAR ANALYSIS - Despite the impressive TikTok feeds showing the Russian phalanx heading in formations across the Ukrainian frontier and the missile extravaganza across the country,

COMMENTARY - Only threat, pain and inflicted hell preserve peace, right?

WINDS OF WAR - Putin’s tanks had barely crossed the border into Ukraine before the American Petroleum Institute (API) was out on Twitter attempting to exploit the crisis.

OPINION - Dear America: Donald Trump is no more your savior than Hitler was Germany’s savior.  Regain your consciousness. 

MY THOUGHTS - This was not the article I was planning for this week’s column. 

POLITICS WATCH - Republicans are gerrymandering themselves into entrenched minority power, unless we stop them now.

COMMENTARY - A few months ago, I was accused of micro-aggression because I refused to post my pronouns in a zoom meeting.

AGAINST MANDATES - Thousands of truckers are being hijacked by anti-vax loonies and encouraged to parade through red state America in search of any remaining Covid-19 restrictions to protest.

MILITARY AGGRESSION - On 2 August 1990, Saddam Hussein ordered the Iraqi army to invade and occupy Kuwait in an operation that led to Iraq’s defeat in war,

VOTING RIGHTS - The attacks on our democracy are moving into the 2022 primary elections.

The Doctor is IN: As the physical, mental, economic, and certainly emotional health of each and every one of you reading this goes down, welcome to a Presidents' Day that draws us to the question of what happened to the man in the White House being a leader we can look up to.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE - Feb. 19 marks the 80th anniversary of when Terminal Island’s residents became the first Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be forcibly removed from their homes.

COMMENTARY - Media hype helped drive the United States into the failed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 

PERFORMERS’ RIGHTS - Neil Young’s recent decision to pull his music from Spotify, the world’s largest streaming service, has sparked important questions about how streaming services operate.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS - Earlier this year, a small group of women and I gathered to post artwork around Washington, D.C. We were celebrating the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which protected women’s constitutional access to abortion.

COMMENTARY - The move by many Angelenos to a more sustainable lifestyle was shaken up by the pandemic.

MEDIA WATCH - Donald Trump’s new social media platform’s launch has been delayed yet again, and experts are already saying that it won’t be the smashing success Trump believes it will be as the internet mocks the first post on the site.

WORLD WATCH - The crisis over Ukraine, which may be facing an imminent Russian invasion, is an excellent example of the need for greater and more careful analysis of the history, issues, individuals, and institutions that are contributing to the problem—

MARC'S ANGLE - Many people forget that the Olympics is a time for patriotism and national pride in a safe context of sporting events.