Is there a dumpster somewhere to torch and bury this year of bedlam, 2025? We near its end with equal amounts relief and trepidation. Surely we can’t be…
Read more Commentary: America tried something new in 2025. It’s not going wellThe government shutdown has reached its 36th day, the longest in U.S. history, as President Donald Trump pressures Republicans to end the Senate filibuster in order to reopen…
Read more President Trump urges Republicans to reopen government as shutdown marks longest in US historyProtesters are beginning to gather Saturday in Los Angeles and elsewhere in Southern California for “No Kings” demonstrations, a nationwide effort to push back against President Trump. In…
Read more ‘No Kings’ protests getting underway across Southern CaliforniaWhen millions of demonstrators took to the streets in June for “No Kings Day” — depicting President Trump as a wannabe monarch intent on violating American democratic norms…
Read more Heightened sense of urgency around this ‘No Kings Day’Over the weekend, President Trump shared a doctored AI image of himself as Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, the crazed cavalry commander in the 1979 Vietnam War film, “Apocalypse…
Read more Is Trump’s troop buildup in U.S. cities a declaration of war — or something else?Voters rank the economy and inflation as the most important issues facing the country, and in spite of good news on both fronts, discontent over pocketbook issues remains…
Read more Opinion: Southern Californians shaped the nation’s biggest political problems. We can solve them too
