VOICES

THE ONE PERCENT - If Dustin Hoffman should ever do a remake of The Graduate, the classic 1967 film that launched his famed cinematic career, what might be the 2020s update for that film’s most iconic exchange?

CONTEMPT TRIAL - If you are tired of waiting for Attorney General Merrick Garland to indict Donald Trump for seditious conspiracy, insurrection, obstruction of Congress, or any other crime involving the attempt to overturn the 2020 election,

GUEST COMMENTARY - A diverse crowd, representing more than a dozen organizations, streamed into a meeting here to raise money for medical aid for Cuba and to show opposition to the US Blockade.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Here’s how all group rights work.  A leader claims that if people follow him/her, then he/she will make certain everything is A-OK. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - As we enter yet another political season where we continue to witness alarming polarization and seemingly no unifying themes, it is disheartening to see the United States disintegrate further into “us and them” rhetoric. 

GRAND OLD PARTY - Perhaps you remember Senator Barry Goldwater, the GOP’s fringy, far-right-wing 1964 presidential nominee who famously said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.”

GUEST COMMENTARY - Much of my adult life has been spent homeless or incarcerated. Now I help homeless people and returning citizens.

POLITICAL LANDSCAPE - These are strange times in American politics. Slowly but surely, the Democrats have been losing their historically working class and multi-racial base, with Hispanics in particular drifting Right.

CIVIL LIBERTIES - Romeo Langhorne is the latest victim of an FBI phony terror entrapment scheme.

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS - After the initial shock over the Supreme Court's action against abortion rights, we're all grappling with an inevitable, fundamental question: what now?

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Three women.  That’s all it takes to change testosterone-skewed priorities on corporate boards.

REAGANONMICS - Dear millennials: back in the 1980s a lot of us worked like hell to try to stop the Reagan revolution. We failed. This may be our last chance to save American democracy and the American middle-class.

BULLY IN THE HOUSE - Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) caught flack when he asked National Women’s Law Center president and CEO Fatima Goss Graves what a woman is at a House Oversight Committee hearing yesterday,

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Come on! Has the passion of our founding fathers fallen to the level of a two-year-old throwing a temper tantrum?

GUEST COMMENTARY - A new article in the Washington Post reveals that Invitation Homes, one of the largest corporate landlords in the United States, is continuing its shameful treatment of tenants. 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Politicos love to incorrectly call America a democracy because democracies place no constraint on the power of a politico who claims a mandate by virtue of receiving a majority of votes. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Do rich people owe their success to luck? The iconic business magazine Fortune has just put the spotlight on a new book with a new take on how much good fortune contributes to grand fortunes.

GUEST COMMENTARY - The muted response from the White House following the July 4 mass shooting at a parade in Highland Park,

 HIGHLAND PARK MEMOIRS - I heard about it from my daughter, Sarah, in Chicago.

POLITICAL FIREWORKS - They say that the amount of air pollution after the July 4th fireworks extravaganza all across Los Angeles is about three to four times as bad as the air quality would be normally.

GUEST COMMENTARY - I’ve made my own choices along the path of life — spiritual, mental, physical.