VOICES

THE VIEW FROM HERE - The 1950 Report of the American Political Scientist Association (APSA)’s Committee on Political Parties, “Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System,” and the idea that we are a democracy where the majority rules are the two worst ideas in American political life. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Noting that countries have been discussing a treaty banning autonomous weapons systems for nearly a decade "with no tangible results,"

NOW IN CONTROL - Since 2018, Los Angeles’ disgraced political establishment has endured five separate corruption scandals implicating seven councilmembers, the city attorney and the mayor. 

MID TERM REBOUND - While control of Congress remained unclear as of Wednesday afternoon, young voters who turned out for Democrats on Tuesday played a key role in blocking a "red wave" that had been anticipated based on previous midterm elections and widely predicted by political pollsters and pundits.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Unhappy with the election results? Wondering where we will go from here? Well, here is a theory.  Mayor Pete! 

BORDER CRISIS - The long-running migrant/refugee crisis gripping the U.S.-Mexico border erupted again into violence on Halloween Day 2022.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - For over three hundred years maxims have circulated on why truth lags behind lies in the news; mostly as variants on this excerpt from an 1821 article describing a complicated court case: 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Karen Bass’s campaign to become Los Angeles mayor boils down to her imitation of Queen Elizabeth – wave, smile, remain above the fray. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - This was an attempted murder by a right-wing zealot propelled by the rantings of a former president and his followers, like Fox News' Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, radio reactionaries like Glenn Beck, and Proud Boy lunatics.

SCOTUS - The erasure of race conscious admissions used in public and private universities began to its certain erasure today, October 31, 2022.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Elon Musk added a new toy to his collection with the $44 billion purchase of Twitter. 

MY THOUGHTS - I’m sure all of us have had people in our lives who either started or steered us along a certain path. 

PROP K - Firehouse #23 is situated on 5th St., in the heart of Downtown’s Skid Row. It has seen better days.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - For years, official Los Angeles has been free of religious and ethnic bigotry. 

THE MIDTERMS - Elections are never easy to predict. But whatever the outcome of America’s Midterms next month, it does seem certain that vast swathes of the American electorate will be largely ignored.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - He. She. They.  Hey, what about We! 

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Democratic leaders from the President on down are wrongfully blaming Paul Pelosi's dreadful assault (he appears to be recovering, thankfully!) on "those MAGA Republicans",

GUEST COMMENTARY - The media’s double standard with regards to what races are competitive is especially glaring, when it comes to the marquis Senate races...

TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS - British Prime Minister Liz Truss recently resigned after just 45 days in office, disgraced by her own economic prescriptions.

NUCLEAR DISASTER - The possibility for using a nuclear device in the war in Ukraine seems to increase, with both Russia and Ukraine blaming each other, while the rest of world watches in fear of a nuclear confrontation of ominous consequences.

STUDENT DEBT - People who don't learn from their history are doomed to make the same mistakes again and again.