50 years after his death, Martin Luther King Jr.'s teaching on nonviolent direct action are as relevant as ever.
Winter festivals emphasize family and home, core strengths of every society. In our communities we guard ourselves against the long darkness. We hold out signs to...
Unemployment is low, profits are high, but wages remain stubbornly flat. Could the decline of organized labor be to blame?
The press tends to cover the immediate aftermath of natural disasters. Readers get heroic stories, viewers see great visuals, and if they are lucky, the victims...
After about 90 minutes of copying the U.S. Constitution by hand, we all seemed to have one experience in common: writer’s cramp.
St. Paul, who wrote the earliest documents we have from the Christian era, declared: “Each will receive wages according to the labor of each.” You work,...
For Dick Gregory, American racism was a senseless fact of life: “I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for...
The basic bomb shelter has had an upgrade in the form of $3 million condos where the ultra-wealthy can insulate themselves from Armageddon.
With their meetings being disrupted by apparent Trump supporters, Westside liberals can no longer enjoy their old sense of isolation and insulation.
Small, exurban towns are experiencing a plague of addictions – so many that overdoses fill the morgues with bodies.
In 2015 California's Coastal Commission granted a permit to bury 3.6 million pounds of highly radioactive material along the coastline, right next to the iconic stretch...
Racial incidents have exploded recently because white and mainstream prejudice has been contained under the line of vision for several decades, and now the lid’s off.
Some experts argue that private-sector efforts to stop climate change have penetrated too deeply into the business world, and claimed too much capital, to be thwarted...
We are suffering a period of extreme weather patterns that a German insurance company says could only happen because of climate change. Last year was the...
Just before the Oroville Dam became daily front page news, during what turned out to be a brief lull in this winter’s storms, one of my...
George W. Bush believed that God wanted to make him President. We can only guess what President Trump thinks about God’s role in his election.
The author Sam Keen once told me that James Donaldson was the only person he ever knew who became a social worker because he needed the...
One phrase describes how many people feel about this next chapter of the American experiment in self-rule: We fear the worst.
Immigrant families feel fear. Children cry in school. Racial incidents increase across the country. Corporate stocks tumble following one man's tweets. Every White House cabinet nomination...
We have a favorite place to camp at Joshua Tree where, this time, across the road from this spot, a guy drove a spiffy pickup truck...