VOICES

CIVIL LIBERTIES - Romeo Langhorne is the latest victim of an FBI phony terror entrapment scheme.

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS - After the initial shock over the Supreme Court's action against abortion rights, we're all grappling with an inevitable, fundamental question: what now?

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Three women.  That’s all it takes to change testosterone-skewed priorities on corporate boards.

REAGANONMICS - Dear millennials: back in the 1980s a lot of us worked like hell to try to stop the Reagan revolution. We failed. This may be our last chance to save American democracy and the American middle-class.

BULLY IN THE HOUSE - Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) caught flack when he asked National Women’s Law Center president and CEO Fatima Goss Graves what a woman is at a House Oversight Committee hearing yesterday,

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Come on! Has the passion of our founding fathers fallen to the level of a two-year-old throwing a temper tantrum?

GUEST COMMENTARY - A new article in the Washington Post reveals that Invitation Homes, one of the largest corporate landlords in the United States, is continuing its shameful treatment of tenants. 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Politicos love to incorrectly call America a democracy because democracies place no constraint on the power of a politico who claims a mandate by virtue of receiving a majority of votes. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Do rich people owe their success to luck? The iconic business magazine Fortune has just put the spotlight on a new book with a new take on how much good fortune contributes to grand fortunes.

GUEST COMMENTARY - The muted response from the White House following the July 4 mass shooting at a parade in Highland Park,

 HIGHLAND PARK MEMOIRS - I heard about it from my daughter, Sarah, in Chicago.

POLITICAL FIREWORKS - They say that the amount of air pollution after the July 4th fireworks extravaganza all across Los Angeles is about three to four times as bad as the air quality would be normally.