A few days ago, as I was talking to a close female friend, a thirty-year-old Filipina physicist at a prestige university in California, an idea came to me. “I feel so terrible about what’s happened in Israel,” she said to…
The Silver Lake community in Los Angeles removed one of its last U-turn signs this week, citing its history of targeting LGBTQ+ people. Eliminating the signs was one of the city’s activities to celebrate Pride Month. “No U-Turn” and “No…
Johnny Wactor, bartending in-between gigs in his high-prestige, low-pay work as an actor, died over the weekend in downtown Los Angeles when he interrupted the low-prestige work of catalytic-converter thieves laboring underneath his jacked-up vehicle. Joe Friday does not work the…
It looks as though the citizens of Los Angeles, the legendary traffic capital of America, the place that gifted us freeway gridlock and smog, the “spaghetti bowl” of freeways and the parking lot that is “the 405 Freeway,” will vote…
Thousands gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this weekend to rally around the future of conservative politics in America. In anticipation of the upcoming election, CPAC was largely rallied focused on former President Donald Trump as the potential…
If you’ve missed the Catholic Church of the 1970s, no need to worry. Last weekend, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles hosted its annual Religious Education (RE) Congress — one of the largest gatherings of Catholics in the U.S. — at…
Journalism experienced one of its darkest days last week when the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 of my fellow left-wing activists, roughly 20 percent of the entire staff. Already the reverberations are being felt in Hollywood, where crucial journalistic…
In 2020, after Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon won office with nearly 54 percent of the vote, advocates for so-called reforms in the criminal justice system could exhale. When he runs for reelection in 2024, however, Gascon’s sweet…
If reports are accurate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., promising a major announcement in Philadelphia on October 9, will declare himself an independent and pursue a third-party run for the presidency. If he does, it will be the Democrats’ worst nightmare….
