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Perhaps we won’t be able to hug our families and party hearty with our friends again this year but we can still look back at how far we’ve come since the close of 2020.
Yes, there have been losses but ther…
Decarbonizing LA’s Buildings Is Overdue but Meeting Strong Political Headwinds
PLANNING WATCH - Most readers assume that the dangers presented by the climate crisis are so compelling that local governments have moved i…
This Scientist Created a Rapid Test Just Weeks Into the Pandemic. Here’s Why You Still Can’t Get It
HEALTH CARE - When COVID-19 started sweeping across America in the spring of 2020, Irene Bosch knew she was in a unique position to help.
Before Roe v. Wade: How to Get a “Therapeutic Abortion”
WOMEN’S CHOICE - Abortion was illegal, dangerous, expensive, and commonplace in New York in the fifties.
The Mainstream Media Seems to Want More War for the United States
MEDIA WAR CRIES - The news and editorial pages have forgotten the failed wars of the recent past, and are already pursuing new confrontatio…
It’s Still the Trump Era and Worse is Coming
TRUMPLICANS - Fellow US-Americans, do you have the strange sensation of still being in the fascistic Donald Trump era during the neoliberal…
Western Greed Fuels China’s Domination
WEST VERSUS EAST - There is a hypocrisy at the heart of the West’s attitude to China: although we’re constantly warned about the threat fro…
Corporate Donations Poured Into Manchin's PAC Ahead of Final 'No' on Build Back Better
THE DC DANCE - New federal disclosures reveal that major corporations poured donations into West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin's political acti…
Defenseless
DC DIVIDED - Come on, Senators. First you haggle endlessly over a “human infrastructure” bill (Build Back Better Act) that would fund actua…
'Bullshit': Manchin Called Out for Killing Biden's Build Back Better
LEGISLATIVE WATCH - “I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation,” Mr. Manchin said on “Fox News Sunday, “I’ve tried everythin…
Trump's Jan. 6 Coup: How It Worked, How Close It Came, and Why It Failed
THE COUP - The first time many Americans learned that a large pro-Donald Trump protest in Washington was planned for January 6 was 18 days…
America’s “Culture of Death”: COVID-19, Gun Insanity, White Supremacy, Ecological Destruction, and Public Indifference
EXTREME POLITICS - The late Pope John Paul II wrote an encyclical in 1996 condemning Western societies for creating and maintaining a “cult…
A Critique of Obscene Wealth
TWO PERCENT FACTOR - Wherever and whenever obscenely rich people existed, they always protected their wealth and the privileges that come w…
Which Side Is Manchin On?
POLITICAL WATCH - I work hard to make ends meet for my family. But as an educator in West Virginia, that’s hard sometimes — especially with…
OMG WTF
TRUMPLICANS - I grew up in canoe country, becoming a guide in the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness as a young man.
Joe Manchin Is NOT a Moderate Democrat!
THE EASTSIDER - I would not care about Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) except for the fact that he’s personally basking in the glory…
Build Back Better or Build More Bombs? The Choice Is Clear
DEFENSE SPENDING - Perennial claims about precision "smart bombs" by the Pentagon and its boosters have been proven false again and again a…
Chris Wallace Quitting Fox News
VOICES - Chris Wallace stepped down from the network on December 12.
LA, Will You Be Ready When Disaster Falls?
COMMENTARY - Imagine what would happen if all power, phones, and the internet go down, if roads become impassable.
