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What does it say when Alex Padilla, a sitting member of the United States Senate, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration, is wrestled to the ground and handcuffed like a common criminal?

Not a rapist, not a murderer, but a member of the United States Senate.

It says no one with brown skin is safe from Kristi ...Read more

For a president who has long described himself as a peacemaker (and openly yearns for a Nobel Peace Prize), Donald Trump has proved to be a reliable harbinger of war. His delusional pronouncements and dithering incompetence have failed to resolve the conflagrations in Gaza and Ukraine, despite many promises -- and now he bears substantial ...Read more

People who support Israel, no matter what it does, tend to hang their hats on a series of familiar arguments. Israel, they say, is the only place Jews can live in security. Critics of Israel want to eliminate Israel. The abolition of Israel would render Israeli Jews homeless (ethnic cleansing), or they would be killed (genocide). Therefore, ...Read more

When an infection attacked his heart, James M. Lang was admitted to the hospital where he stayed for three months, ultimately receiving a heart transplant. "We live in the age of wonders," he wrote in the introduction of his new book, "Write Like You Teach: Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Bigger Audience." It's why I wanted to talk to him.

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Send in the Marines! Damn! That sounds tough.

Say it. Just say it. Yell it into the silence of your living room.

"Send in the Marines!"

When you yell that, you automatically make a fist.

From the halls of Orange County. To the shores of Redondo Beach.

America hasn't really won a war overseas since 1945, so I guess we figured we could win ...Read more

The president is doing his best to inflame passions within and at California. Calling in the National Guard against the governor's wishes is a provocation. Sending in Marines to add drama to his show is an insult as well as incitement. The Marines are not a fashion accessory. They are trained to confront foreign threats, not in policing the ...Read more

I'm fine. Thanks for asking. Other than the endless and awful worries that come with caring for my daughter with long Covid, and the very real fear that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his boss will cut all the research programs that are the best and only hope for the millions (and there will be millions more) suffering from this now incurable ...Read more

The die is cast. President Donald Trump has deployed the military against protesters in his drive for authoritarian control. The week started with Trump's federalization of the California National Guard, deploying 2,000 troops to Los Angeles, to quell growing protests against his attempted mass deportations and against the wishes of California...Read more

Let me tell you the story of the star-crossed Republican Senate and House of Representatives.

Republicans can't cross the president and can't compromise with Democrats. They are utterly useless as lawmakers, precariously perched on slim majorities.

The Trump Republican plan for the people is etched in black and white in a 1,000-page death ...Read more

How sweet it is to be a corporate criminal these days!

I don't mean common price gougers, polluters and such, but full-fledged, executive-suite mobsters. They run huge corporate syndicates, treating fraud and even murder as necessary business tools. For example, Boeing Incorporated.

In 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX passenger jet suddenly nose-dived...Read more

Last week we marked another anniversary of D-Day, the landing by Allied troops at Normandy, launched to liberate Europe from its murderous occupation by fascists. Thousands of young soldiers died in the initial phases of the campaign to free Europe; many thousands more would die before the Nazis surrendered.

Historically, June 6 is a date ...Read more

The hot-selling book "Abundance" is written by liberals who bash liberals, or more precisely, try to make them feel guilty. Sure, authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson shed some blame on conservatives for why America doesn't build as easily as it used to. But it's those liberals in expensive cities, the authors insist, who are callously ...Read more

Four months into President Donald Trump's second term, he has aggressively pursued efforts to strip entire communities of their rights and circumvent the rule of law.

While many voters expected Trump to ramp up deportations, they did not foresee the hurricane of horrors he has unleashed. The president has attempted to assert wartime ...Read more

"It's sort of Trump derangement syndrome, I guess they call it," President Donald Trump said, in explaining the hostility that overcomes veterans of his administration. Are they crazed because of what they've seen or what they've done? Or were they always crazed, which is why they were there in the first place?

In Elon Musk's case, it is ...Read more

Democrats constantly accuse Donald Trump of constantly lying. Journalistic factcheckers, who work for Democratic-aligned media companies, back their claims with statistics. But it's the Democratic Party that's facing historically low approval ratings. In poll after poll about one issue after another, voters say they trust Republicans more.

A ...Read more

When I was first diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, my rheumatologist told me that without treatment I would not live to see 50. I was 35 when he told me that and I did not appreciate his scare tactics. I know now that PsA is a chronic illness, not a life-threatening one, but the disease puts me at a higher risk for other conditions that might ...Read more

Old guys like me always believe the world is getting worse.

You're young and strong and you're hell in a fistfight, and you figure if you lose your white-collar job, you can just go tend bar somewhere until you get another job.

Yeah. That's beautiful, but it doesn't last. If you're not careful, in your later years, you start being nostalgic ...Read more