## In the News [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/10/066m-104e94b8.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33229:democrats-finally-tell-iowa-and-new-hampshire-you-dont-go-first-anymore&catid=395) ### [Democrats Finally Tell Iowa and New Hampshire: You Don’t Go First Anymore](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33229:democrats-finally-tell-iowa-and-new-hampshire-you-dont-go-first-anymore&catid=395) August 20 2026 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/86/066j-864c685d.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33231:a-prisoner-a-peacemaker-and-israels-defining-choice&catid=375) ### [A Prisoner, A Peacemaker, and Israel’s Defining Choice](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33231:a-prisoner-a-peacemaker-and-israels-defining-choice&catid=375) August 20 2026 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/a0/066n-a017b8a3.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33228:lausd-demolishes-closed-schools-wasting-public-assets-and-community-hopes&catid=312) ### [LAUSD Demolishes Closed Schools, Wasting Public Assets and Community Hopes](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33228:lausd-demolishes-closed-schools-wasting-public-assets-and-community-hopes&catid=312) August 20 2026 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/cb/066h-cbd9f290.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33234:homelessness-among-seniors-spikes-in-los-angeles-county-but-its-not-hopeless&catid=312) ### [Homelessness Among Seniors Spikes in Los Angeles County, But It’s Not Hopeless](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33234:homelessness-among-seniors-spikes-in-los-angeles-county-but-its-not-hopeless&catid=312) August 20 2026 # VOICES --- [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2026/052j.jpg) ### Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” Actually Addressed an Issue Far More Important Than A.I. 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Posted in [VOICES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=375). ## [The Public Isn’t Budging on ICE’s Immigrant Detention Policies](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=32962:the-public-isnt-budging-on-ices-immigrant-detention-policies&catid=375) ICE - As the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency rapidly expands its carceral powers, immigrant detention centers around the United Stat… --- [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/50/052n-50847b22.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=32959:common-sense-inconvenient-truths-chapter-one&catid=375)### [Common Sense & Inconvenient Truths – Chapter One](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=32959:common-sense-inconvenient-truths-chapter-one&catid=375) Written by Fred Rosen on July 02 2026. 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