Column: How I spent my summer vacation — watching America lean into autocracy
For years we’ve read stories about antidemocratic countries abroad — supreme leaders acting with impunity, masked agents rounding…
Column: Where’s the music that meets this moment? Black artists are stepping up
It’s been one year since Kendrick Lamar took the Kia Forum stage in Inglewood for “The Pop Out:…
Column: Maybe the latest Democratic disarray means they’re coming to their senses
Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, and Lee Saunders, the president of the American…
Column: Wasn’t the president supposed to be deporting criminals?
This will strike the literal-minded as illogical, but I think Huntington Park Mayor Arturo Flores, a Marine veteran…
Column: Don’t wait for an election year to listen to Black men
Heading into the final stretch of the 2024 election, it seemed every cable news program had a segment…
Column: Did the MyPillow guy, clinging to the Big Lie, defame a Dominion exec?
There’s a line in Eric Coomer’s defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy, that strikes me as…
Column: Voters who don’t vote? This is one way democracy can die, by 20 million cuts
During China’s imperial age, those deemed guilty of the worst offenses were sometimes sentenced to death in a…
Column: Are plans for the Joshua Tree Art Museum a desert mirage?
When is an art museum not an art museum? Among myriad potential answers is this one: When it’s…
Column: The ‘One, Big, Beautiful Bill’ is a big, ugly mess
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” is one big, ugly mess. We’ve seen false advertising in naming laws before…
Love advice column on commitment in a relationship
I have a Sagittarius sun at one degree and Venus in the eighth house. I want to soul-bond,…