I don’t believe in prescience. I don’t believe, for instance, that when Octavia E. Butler began to write her 1993 novel, “Parable of the Sower,” she was working with a...
The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that could soon ban TikTok. While its decision — that the divest-or-ban law does not violate the First Amendment rights of TikTok or...
The ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel is, first and foremost, a welcome relief for the Palestinians in Gaza who are suffering from a most brutal and horrific genocide. For...
A city devastated; neighbors coming to its aid; the hunt for a scapegoat: Though the Angelenos enduring wildfires today lead lives dramatically different from those of the people who survived...
Last week, Meta—the Mark Zuckerberg-run company that owns Facebook—closed the fact-checking unit on its multi-billion-user social media platform. The move is not notable because it reveals that Facebook is not...
Will the wildfires finally wake up Los Angeles? Adam Carolla, evacuated from home and ranting into his mic in a Los Angeles hotel room, seems to think so. When the...
Is DEI really on its way out at American universities? Don’t be fooled. While many institutions claim to have abandoned diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, they have often rebranded them,...
The Trump-Vance administration has the opportunity to take decisive action to curb the devastating effects of drug normalization and addiction. Americans, meanwhile, are waking up to the harms of the...
For folks who have so harshly turned on the FBI for supposedly targeting Donald Trump over the years, Republicans sure are quick to turn to the bureau when they need...
As bad as the fires in the Los Angeles area have been — more than 12,000 structures burned, about 180,000 people evacuated, more than 35,000 acres scorched, and at least...