Nancy Scheper-Hughes: He’s a mean bully and the university is giving this arrogant clown all the publicity he wants, and he wants there to be riots – he tells the media that he expects riots, and he says it with a smirk. Gotcha, Berkeley!
The Body Politic
If Ever There Were Deplorables…
Paul Haeder: One week after Harvey’s Houston devastation, the plague of predatory capital comes in like syphilis – threatening to call in the debt police, chiding the homeless now with bad credit reputations.
Defense
Newlyweds and the Doomsday Clock: Have We Saved the Last Dance For Them?
he weeks following my marriage were ecstasy. I was 19 and in love. The future seemed joyous, studded with promise. My wife was lovely, and I—a brooding and rather gloomy kid—was happier than I’d ever been. But there was a snake in this Edenic idyll we’d found for ourselves in southern California. We’d happened upon […]
Healthcare Reform
Worse Than Terrible: How Graham-Cassidy Will Gut States’ Health Care
Judith Lewis Mernit: Graham-Cassidy’s repeal of the state’s Medicaid expansion alone would leave four million California adults living at or near the poverty line without the health coverage they’ve had since 2014.
Education
LAUSD President Ref Rodriguez Felony Charges
September 13, 2017: LAUSD President Charged With Conspiracy, Improperly Identifying Campaign Donors Contact: Greg Risling, Assistant Media Chief (213) 257-2000 GRisling@da.lacounty.gov The president of the Los Angeles Unified School District and his cousin were charged today for allegedly reimbursing nearly $25,000 to donors that he claimed in a campaign filing form, the Los Angeles County […]
LAUSD: Celebrating Layoffs with a 174% raise — for the Bosses
David Lyell: I propose that, at the very beginning of its next meeting, the LAUSD School Board immediately vote to suspend the rules in order to address this exorbitant 174% raise proposal — and politely and unanimously vote to reject it.
California
In California, Pro Football Is for Losers
Joe Mathews: As big cities shed the NFL, only smaller, poorer cities are desperate enough to host teams.
Take Me Out to the California League
Joe Mathews: The Golden State’s Major League Baseball is slow-paced and pricey, but out minor league beautifully binds us together.
