Rabbi Robin Podolsky / Jewish Journal
- Jul 31, 2019
- 3 min
Message to Immigrants: ‘You Aren’t Alone’
The rideshare dropped me off 15 minutes early at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. Already, there were hundreds...
Bill Bentley
- Jul 30, 2019
- 10 min
Bentley's Bandstand / July 2019
Dave Alvin King of California Downeyite Dave Alvin would be the first call if California names a new State Musician, but that would...
James BigBoy Medlin
- Jul 26, 2019
- 16 min
Vietnam: Getting In / Getting Out
A Three-Part Account of My Experience PART I: Dreams, Schemes and the End of Innocence 1969 was a year of contrasts and contradictions....
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
- Jul 12, 2019
- 2 min
Ventura @ 4am / Re Concentration Camps
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. They’re...
Daniel Immerwahr / Mother Jones Magazine
- Jul 11, 2019
- 4 min
Outside Sources / No One Called the United States "America" Until It Became an Empire
Adapted from How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. America, as a shorthand for the United States, has a way of...
Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian
- Jul 11, 2019
- 5 min
Outside Sources / 'We all suffer': why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed
For Zoe, the newfound financial security from working in tech does not counterbalance a constant sense of being unsafe in the city. She...