VOICES

GUN CONTROL - Ready, aim, fire: "I believe in Jesus, guns and babies." So declares Kandiss Taylor, GOP candidate for governor of Georgia, in a campaign ad.

RUSSIAN WAR - The Ukraine-Russia war has raged for more than a hundred days.

LABOR WATCH - America is suffering from a worker shortage, but a more persistent and perhaps even urgent problem is the profound lack of skills among younger Americans.

GUEST COMMENTARY - “The threats became much more specific, much more graphic, and included not just me by name but included members of my family…”

HIGHER WAGES - Led by the Poor People's Campaign, advocacy groups and low-income individuals gathered in Washington, D.C. on Saturday to demand that policymakers "fight poverty, not the poor."

THE VIEW FROM HERE - After Ben Franklin answered the question what form of government the Constitutional Convention had created, the questioner did not ask, “Why a republic?” 

GUEST COMMENTARY - It is hard to be sanguine about the future. The breakdown of the ecosystem is well documented.

GUEST COMMENTARY - "Everybody plays the fool" The Main Ingredient, 1972 

SCOTUS WATCH - We are hurtling towards a world where a group of conservative mostly white men will likely trample the rights of "post-born" women to control their reproduction in the name of saving the "pre-born."

ACCORDING TO LIZ - The Setup.  A number of years ago, a joke circulated about a wealthy American who, on the 100^th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, commissioned a mural to commemorate Custer’s last thoughts before his death.

LABOR WATCH - Veronica Gonzalez can’t wait until July. That’s when a union election is scheduled for the Starbucks store where the 26-year-old barista works with 40 others in the Cypress Park neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles.

POLITICS WATCH - President Joe Biden recently flew off to Taiwan to assure our allies there that he will fight for them.