

Rabbi Robin Podolsky / Jewish Journal
Jul 31, 20193 min read
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, 201910 min read
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, 201916 min read
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, 20192 min read
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, 20194 min read
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, 20195 min read
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...


David Talbot
Jul 11, 20194 min read
Talbot / An American Dystopia
San Francisco has been turned into such a grotesque dystopia in the last several years that even the tech industry that ruined The City...


Trilby Beresford & Abid Rahman / Hollywood
Jul 4, 20192 min read
Outside Sources / Mad Magazine to Effectively Shutter After 67 Years
The beloved satire publication will no longer be sold on newsstands after the August issue, and future editions will shift to previously...


Alexandra Petri / Washington Post
Jul 4, 20192 min read
Outside Sources / Goodbye America! Tanks for Everything!
Well, America, it has been great. On the Fourth of July, President Trump and his followers are taking over the Mall and the Lincoln...


Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico
Jul 2, 20191 min read
Outside Sources / Agriculture Department buries studies showing dangers of climate change
The Trump administration has refused to publicize dozens of government-funded studies that carry warnings about the effects of climate...


Huffington Post
Jul 1, 20193 min read
Outside Sources / Canadian Cartoonist Loses His Job After Trump Drawing Goes Viral
Cartoonist Michael de Adder’s contract with four Canadian newspapers was terminated last week after one of his political cartoons...


James 'BigBoy' Medlin / Photo: Dan Hubig
Jul 1, 20192 min read
WHY NOT? / Hell to the Chief
He who calls me THE ugliest of writers shall have not his name spoken. Nor of the publication nor broadcast nor streaming service failing...