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POLICY - Years before his 1987 best-seller, The Bonfire of the Vanities chronicled New York society and politics, novelist Tom Wolfe chronicled another venue of political theatre and vanities bonfire: the anti-poverty programs funded under the federal government’s War on Poverty.

GUEST COMMENTARY - The Keith Raniere case is another example of our justice agencies acting against the best interest of common sense, common decency and “we the people”.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Abandoned high-rises and homeless encampments on the streets of downtown are not selling Los Angeles as the best Olympic venue for 2028 Olympics. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - It is long past time to repeal the Second Amendment.  Why?

HOUSING WATCH - Across the United States, grassroots movements continue to rise up to end statewide rent control bans.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Good intentions do not always lead to Hell. 

SUPREME IN JUSTICE -  Adults in the United States say they lack trust in the federal government's judicial branch and nearly three-fifths disapprove of the way the U.S. Supreme Court is doing its job, 

AN ALMOST MISFIRE - It was an intelligence failure of a scope to vastly exceed all others, when one nuclear superpower perceived the other moving to a nuclear first strike and prepared for war, while the other missed all the signals and believed it was business as usual.

NUCLEAR DISASTER - What does surrender look like in the world of geopolitics?

GUEST COMMENTARY - Many Americans seem to be giving up.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Are you tired of being told to post your pronouns? I am.

COLLEGE DEBT - President Joe Biden recently instituted a program to forgive some of the student debt that plagues approximately 45 million Americans.

GUEST COMMENTARY - America’s narrow escape last week from a major rail-worker strike brought home an important truth: people who make and ship real things – let’s call them material workers – now hold the whip hand over our supposedly ‘post-industrial’ economy.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - The time really MUST sooner or later arrive when we can speak truth to power...and I don't mean those who think that fossil fuels will be our only way out of the stone age for the indefinite future.

GUEST COMMENTARY - In a world haunted by the specter of nuclear war, needlessly aggressive competition among nations could lead to an apocalyptic catastrophe.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - During the debate on September 21, 2022, Sheriff Alex Villanueva showed that he is out of step with Los Angeles.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - “The problem is not how many dollars remain underground if fracking is banned, but how many lives are lost above ground, if it isn’t.” 

GUEST COMMENTARY - The story of Ron DeathSantis' latest sadistic, showboating, puerile, deeply inhumane bit of anti-immigration political theater -

COURT RULES - Citing a recent court ruling, a government watchdog group on Wednesday urged members of Congress to remove and bar from office anyone "who betrayed their constitutional oaths by engaging in the January 6 insurrection."

GUEST COMMENTARY - In a mid-term election year, where the fate of House of Representatives is in the balance, nearly all attention, energy, and resources are consumed upon congressional races.

GUEST COMMENTARY - It hasn’t been a month since President Biden mounted the steps of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, declaring it his duty to ensure each of us understands the central faction of his political opposition are extremists that “threaten the very foundations of our Republic.”