# IMPORTANT READS ## [ Let the Games Begin … Single Payer Healthcare That Is](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/14007-let-the-games-begin-single-payer-healthcare-that-is "Let the Games Begin … Single Payer Healthcare That Is") Details Michael Cohen [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) September 14 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Sept-2017/074h.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/14007-let-the-games-begin-single-payer-healthcare-that-is) TRUMP WATCH--Now that Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt, I) has [introduced](https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/907949996066136064) his long anticipated single payer Medicare For All Act in the Senate Wednesday, which has 15 co-sponsors in the Senate, a record level of support. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/14007-let-the-games-begin-single-payer-healthcare-that-is) ## [ The American Dream has Moved to Canada ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13998-the-american-dream-has-moved-to-canada "The American Dream has Moved to Canada  ") Details Jill Richardson [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) September 14 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Sept-2017/074r.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13998-the-american-dream-has-moved-to-canada) THE POOR STAY POOR-We all want to live in a country where all it takes is hard work and some talent for anyone to succeed. We tell ourselves that we do. We even see examples of people who “came from nothing” and ended up rich and famous. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13998-the-american-dream-has-moved-to-canada) ## [ It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13983-it-s-not-nice-to-fool-mother-nature "It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature") Details Michael Cohen [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) September 11 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Sept-2017/073h.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13983-it-s-not-nice-to-fool-mother-nature) THE COHEN COLUMN--About 40 years ago (are we dating ourselves here?) there was a margarine commercial on TV with the tag line, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13983-it-s-not-nice-to-fool-mother-nature) ## [ The Silencing of Hillary Clinton](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13976-the-silencing-of-hillary-clinton "The Silencing of Hillary Clinton") Details Seth Masket [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) September 11 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Sept-2017/073r.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13976-the-silencing-of-hillary-clinton) GUEST WORDS--Once again, [Hillary Clinton](https://psmag.com/tag/hillary-clinton) is offering some opinions, and, once again, she is being told to keep quiet. This is a familiar pattern for us, no less for her, so perhaps it shouldn't be so surprising to see it recur. But I'd like to push back a bit on this one. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13976-the-silencing-of-hillary-clinton) ## [ Your Equifax Data is at Risk! Who’s at Fault, Will They Ever be Punished?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13972-your-equifax-data-is-at-risk-who-s-at-fault-will-they-ever-be-punished "Your Equifax Data is at Risk! Who’s at Fault, Will They Ever be Punished?") Details Paul Hatfield [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) September 11 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Sept-2017/073x.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13972-your-equifax-data-is-at-risk-who-s-at-fault-will-they-ever-be-punished) PERSPECTIVE-Equifax suffered one of the most significant data breaches ever, exposing confidential information stored within its network. What’s more, three executives sold a fair slice of their personal shares in the company after the event was discovered and before it was communicated to authorities and the public. Oh, and the sales were not part of a 10b5-1 arrangement through the SEC. The purpose of this arrangement is to minimize the risk of insider training by scheduling sales in advance. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13972-your-equifax-data-is-at-risk-who-s-at-fault-will-they-ever-be-punished) ## [ Single Payer Health Care … It’s in Your Hands](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13953-single-payer-health-care-it-s-in-your-hands "Single Payer Health Care … It’s in Your Hands") Details Michael Cohen [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) September 07 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Sept-2017/072p.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13953-single-payer-health-care-it-s-in-your-hands) TRUMP WATCH--Last column, we affirmed our certainty that Donald Trump is going down. Either Mueller will indict or he won't. And we believe he will. It's not our political problem. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13953-single-payer-health-care-it-s-in-your-hands) ## [ Medieval Historians: What to Do When Nazis Are Obsessed with Your Field](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13949-medieval-historians-what-to-do-when-nazis-are-obsessed-with-your-field "Medieval Historians: What to Do When Nazis Are Obsessed with Your Field") Details David M. Perry [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) September 07 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Sept-2017/072u.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13949-medieval-historians-what-to-do-when-nazis-are-obsessed-with-your-field) ALT-RIGHT APPROPRIATION-Nazis love Taylor Swift. She is thin, blonde, pale, and rich. She doesn't talk politics much, which might be just a savvy marketing decision, but it also enables wild speculation about her views on Donald Trump, feminism, and whether black lives matter. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13949-medieval-historians-what-to-do-when-nazis-are-obsessed-with-your-field) ## [ ‘Art of the Deal’ More Important Now than Ever after North Korea Claims H-Bomb Test](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13941-art-of-the-deal-more-important-now-than-ever-after-north-korea-claims-h-bomb-test "‘Art of the Deal’ More Important Now than Ever after North Korea Claims H-Bomb Test") Details Andrea Germanos [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) September 04 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Sept-2017/071c.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13941-art-of-the-deal-more-important-now-than-ever-after-north-korea-claims-h-bomb-test) SO, NOW WHAT’S ON THE TABLE?--Calls for restraint and diplomacy emerged on Sunday after North Korea claimed to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb capable being placed on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13941-art-of-the-deal-more-important-now-than-ever-after-north-korea-claims-h-bomb-test) ## [ Trump Escalates War on Workers … Slashes Pay Increases](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13932-trump-escalates-war-on-workers-slashes-pay-increases "Trump Escalates War on Workers … Slashes Pay Increases") Details Andrea Germanos [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) September 04 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Sept-2017/071q.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13932-trump-escalates-war-on-workers-slashes-pay-increases) LABOR WARS--Continuing his [war on workers](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/30/the-trump-administrations-ongoing-attack-on-workers/), President Donald Trump on Thursday announced he was slashing the scheduled pay raises for federal workers. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13932-trump-escalates-war-on-workers-slashes-pay-increases) ## [ Trump Watch: Now We Pause for a Word from the IRS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13931-trump-watch-now-we-pause-for-a-word-from-the-irs "Trump Watch: Now We Pause for a Word from the IRS") Details Michael Cohen [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) September 04 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Sept-2017/071r.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13931-trump-watch-now-we-pause-for-a-word-from-the-irs) THE COHEN COLUMN--When Trump told America that his tax returns were perpetually under audit as an excuse not to let us see them, unlike every other modern presidential candidate, we easily presumed he was lying about that, just like he lies about everything else. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13931-trump-watch-now-we-pause-for-a-word-from-the-irs) ## [ Hurricane Harvey - A Sliver of Light](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13922-hurricane-harvey-a-sliver-of-light "Hurricane Harvey - A Sliver of Light") Details Leonard Isenberg [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) August 31 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Aug-2017/070g.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13922-hurricane-harvey-a-sliver-of-light) LIFE OBSERVED--The systematic dumbing down of American public education over the last 40 years – seen in places like the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and their non-functioning equivalents throughout LA County -- is having a profoundly negative effect on the ability of people to act intelligently and understand how to survive as we face an ever-increasing number of ecological disasters. Case in point, Hurricane Harvey. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13922-hurricane-harvey-a-sliver-of-light) ## [ Hurricane Harvey: Trump’s Cuts are Now in the Eye of the Storm](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13921-hurricane-harvey-trump-s-cuts-are-now-in-the-eye-of-the-storm "Hurricane Harvey: Trump’s Cuts are Now in the Eye of the Storm") Details Judith Lewis Mernit [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) August 31 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Aug-2017/070i.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13921-hurricane-harvey-trump-s-cuts-are-now-in-the-eye-of-the-storm) As Hurricane Harvey churned toward the Texas Gulf Coast last week, meteorologists, climate scientists and lay weather nerds on Twitter marveled at the crisp, detailed images of the storm sent to earth by a brand-new satellite. The nation’s first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, (GOES-16), had been launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida 11 days after the November election, and has since transmitted high-resolution pictures of smoke from Canadian wildfires, of the August 21 North American eclipse and of a major fog event that spread out over the Midwest and Eastern U.S. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13921-hurricane-harvey-trump-s-cuts-are-now-in-the-eye-of-the-storm) ## [ Neurodiversity Workforce Brigade: A New Employment Vision for Adults with Mental Conditions](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13917-neurodiversity-workforce-brigade-a-new-employment-vision-for-adults-with-mental-conditions "Neurodiversity Workforce Brigade: A New Employment Vision for Adults with Mental Conditions") Details Michael Bernick [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) August 31 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Aug-2017/070m.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13917-neurodiversity-workforce-brigade-a-new-employment-vision-for-adults-with-mental-conditions) LABOR DAY VISIONS--As we approach Labor Day, I'd like you to meet the **Neurodiversity Workforce** **Brigade.** The Brigade employs tens of thousands of adults with neurological conditions that often are impediments to mainstream employment, primarily autism, severe ADHD and other serious learning and mental health conditions. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13917-neurodiversity-workforce-brigade-a-new-employment-vision-for-adults-with-mental-conditions) ## [ Republicans Need to Understand: People are Mad and They’re Mad at Them](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13915-republicans-need-to-understand-people-are-mad-and-they-re-mad-at-them "Republicans Need to Understand: People are Mad and They’re Mad at Them") Details Jeff Allen [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) August 31 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Aug-2017/070p.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13915-republicans-need-to-understand-people-are-mad-and-they-re-mad-at-them) PERSPECTIVE--Republicans: this guy is YOUR fault. You own him. I know, I know: fake news. Russia is fake news. Climate Change is fake news. Charlottesville is fake news… let’s face it: anything Republicans and Trump supporters don’t like is fake news. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13915-republicans-need-to-understand-people-are-mad-and-they-re-mad-at-them) ## [ Trump's Category Five Contempt for the Rule of Law While Houston is Under 3 Feet of Fake Water.](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13912-trump-s-category-five-contempt-for-the-rule-of-law-while-houston-is-under-3-feet-of-fake-water "Trump's Category Five Contempt for the Rule of Law While Houston is Under 3 Feet of Fake Water.") Details Michael Cohen [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) August 31 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Aug-2017/070t.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13912-trump-s-category-five-contempt-for-the-rule-of-law-while-houston-is-under-3-feet-of-fake-water) THE COHEN COLUMN--Trump's precipitous pardon of outlaw sheriff Joe Arpaio was such an outrageous blast that it pushed news of one of the biggest hurricanes this decade into a small corner of the cable TV screen. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13912-trump-s-category-five-contempt-for-the-rule-of-law-while-houston-is-under-3-feet-of-fake-water) ## [ It’s Hard to Tell ‘Antifa’ and the ‘Alt-Right’ Apart … There’s a Reason](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13898-it-s-hard-to-tell-antifa-and-the-alt-right-apart-there-s-a-reason "It’s Hard to Tell ‘Antifa’ and the ‘Alt-Right’ Apart … There’s a Reason") Details Chris Hedges [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) August 28 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Aug-2017/069l.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13898-it-s-hard-to-tell-antifa-and-the-alt-right-apart-there-s-a-reason) GUEST WORDS--*Editor’s note: A Berkeley, Calif., rally organized by a right-wing group* [*turned violent Sunday*](https://www.truthdig.com/articles/protesters-keep-peace-berkeley-rally/) *after arrival of a group that carried an anarchist banner.* [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13898-it-s-hard-to-tell-antifa-and-the-alt-right-apart-there-s-a-reason) ## [ Defense of Transgender Rights: Everybody’s Fight ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13890-defense-of-transgender-rights-everybody-s-fight "Defense of Transgender Rights:  Everybody’s Fight ") Details Richard Lee Abrams [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) August 28 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Aug-2017/069y.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13890-defense-of-transgender-rights-everybody-s-fight) THE AGE OF TRUMP--Ask not for whom the transgender bell tolls: it tolls for thee. A hideous evil has befallen America -- it is Nazism. A classic Nazi ploy is to take over a nation by singling out a group that is weak and has few, if any, defenders. In Trump’s America of 2017, that is transgender people. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13890-defense-of-transgender-rights-everybody-s-fight) ## [ The Trump Dump: Where to Begin](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13889-the-trump-dump-where-to-begin "The Trump Dump: Where to Begin") Details Michael Cohen [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) August 28 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Aug-2017/069z.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13889-the-trump-dump-where-to-begin) THE COHEN COLUMN--There is so much wrong with trump's big Afghanistan speech last week, where to begin? [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13889-the-trump-dump-where-to-begin) ## [ Tribalism: Getting Past the ‘We’ and the ‘You’](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13887-tribalism-getting-past-the-we-and-the-you "Tribalism: Getting Past the ‘We’ and the ‘You’") Details Leonard Isenberg [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) August 28 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Aug-2017/069z2.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13887-tribalism-getting-past-the-we-and-the-you) THE MYTH OF SCARCITY-Looking at the most recent examples of our longstanding and endemic confrontations over race, ethnicity, and equal rights, we should examine the ancient and primitive roots of this continuing problem – one that causes the human species to continue underachieving its potential – yet remains intact and unaddressed. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13887-tribalism-getting-past-the-we-and-the-you) ## [ Why I Left ... the Left ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13884-why-i-left-the-left "Why I Left ... the Left ") Details Kevin J. Suscavage [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) August 28 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Aug-2017/069z5.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13884-why-i-left-the-left) VOICE FROM THE CENTER--This is a somewhat extreme title. This is also an extreme situation. I've always been an advocate for liberal causes, but have pivoted as of last year. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13884-why-i-left-the-left) ## [ Afghanistan: Been There, Done That](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13880-afghanistan-been-there-done-that "Afghanistan: Been There, Done That") Details Doug Epperhart [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads) August 24 2017 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Aug-2017/068a.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13880-afghanistan-been-there-done-that) THE EPPERHART EXPRESS--The most famous Afghan war veteran is fictional. He is known worldwide through the stories of one of history’s best-selling authors. A former army doctor, John H. Watson was introduced to readers in *A Study in Scarlet*, Arthur Conan Doyle’s first work featuring detective Sherlock Holmes. [ Read more … ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13880-afghanistan-been-there-done-that) 1. [ Betting on Impeachment](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13878-betting-on-impeachment) 2. [ Gov. Greitens: Take Down Missouri’s Racist Death Penalty Statutes!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13872-gov-greitens-take-down-missouri-s-racist-death-penalty-statutes) 3. [ Trump’s Running Out of Friends, and It’s His Own Fault](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13862-trump-s-running-out-of-friends-and-it-s-his-own-fault) 4. [ Charlottesville, White Supremacy and Columbus -- And You Think it Can’t Happen Here?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13855-charlottesville-white-supremacy-and-columbus-and-you-think-it-can-t-happen-here) 5. [ Is There a Nazi in the White House?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13851-is-there-a-nazi-in-the-white-house) 6. [ Of Monuments and Men](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13844-of-monuments-and-men) 7. [ US Experiences Total Eclipse … of Presidential Leadership!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13838-us-experiences-total-eclipse-of-presidential-leadership) 8. [ Why are Nazis Un-American?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13836-why-are-nazis-un-american) 9. [ Not Your Granddad’s Nazis: A New Generation of White Supremacists Emerges in Charlottesville](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/13816-not-your-granddad-s-nazis-a-new-generation-of-white-supremacists-emerges-in-charlottesville) 10. [ Racists Look Emboldened. 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