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ELECTION 2024 - A day ahead of his expected 2024 announcement, former President Donald Trump on Monday was hit with a campaign finance complaint...

THE VIEW FROM HERE - The 1950 Report of the American Political Scientist Association (APSA)’s Committee on Political Parties, “Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System,” and the idea that we are a democracy where the majority rules are the two worst ideas in American political life. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Noting that countries have been discussing a treaty banning autonomous weapons systems for nearly a decade "with no tangible results,"

NOW IN CONTROL - Since 2018, Los Angeles’ disgraced political establishment has endured five separate corruption scandals implicating seven councilmembers, the city attorney and the mayor. 

MID TERM REBOUND - While control of Congress remained unclear as of Wednesday afternoon, young voters who turned out for Democrats on Tuesday played a key role in blocking a "red wave" that had been anticipated based on previous midterm elections and widely predicted by political pollsters and pundits.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Unhappy with the election results? Wondering where we will go from here? Well, here is a theory.  Mayor Pete! 

BORDER CRISIS - The long-running migrant/refugee crisis gripping the U.S.-Mexico border erupted again into violence on Halloween Day 2022.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - For over three hundred years maxims have circulated on why truth lags behind lies in the news; mostly as variants on this excerpt from an 1821 article describing a complicated court case: 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Karen Bass’s campaign to become Los Angeles mayor boils down to her imitation of Queen Elizabeth – wave, smile, remain above the fray. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - This was an attempted murder by a right-wing zealot propelled by the rantings of a former president and his followers, like Fox News' Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, radio reactionaries like Glenn Beck, and Proud Boy lunatics.

SCOTUS - The erasure of race conscious admissions used in public and private universities began to its certain erasure today, October 31, 2022.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Elon Musk added a new toy to his collection with the $44 billion purchase of Twitter.