Fox News Is Flipping the Attack On Libel Law
Fox News Presented Information That Was False, Demonstrably So, and Offered Without Regard to Truth-Seeking Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has yet to detail... Read more.
Ohio Train Derailment Has Us Facing Our Long-lasting Toxins
It took a moment to go wrong; it will take years to make right again. More than two weeks after the freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, that released... Read more.
The Supreme Court’s Ethics Problem
Do Justices See Themselves Being Above the Need and Reach of Ethics Rules? The difference between those ensconced in Washington officialdom and us is that politicians... Read more.
Federal District Court Could Rule Against Abortion-inducing Medications
Another Likely Supreme Court Showdown Any day now, a federal District Court judge in Texas could wipe out the use of abortion-inducing medications, the result of... Read more.
Amid Migrant Issues, What About Cuba?
Our Immigration Policy Is Anything But Comprehensive Among all the issues at the Southern border the stories of spiraling numbers of Cuban migrants are spawning... Read more.
The Power of Denialism: Why Do We Continue to Live In Earthquake Zones?
Unlike Weather, the Ability to Predict Earthquakes Has Not Improved Much In more than 17 years working at The Los Angeles Times, possibly the single-most controversial... Read more.
State of the Union … What Was Gained by Heckling?
An Unusually Vigorous Biden Seemed Clever in Using the Verbal Challenges To Nail the Opposition Down With the partisan smoke the skirmish from the State of the Union... Read more.
State of the Union: Divided
The State of Our Union Is Divided and Nearly Incapable of Resolving Anything We put too much emphasis on the State of the Union address, which arrives again tonight.... Read more.
A Season Opening for GOP Subpoenas
These Republican-led Committees Are as Much Interested – If Not Dominated – By a Desire To Embarrass As with all unfolding public rituals, the press reported... Read more.
Popping the Balloon
The Only Balloon Popped This Week Was the One of Credibility The Chinese weather-ship-spy-balloon is gone by now, shot down yesterday once it had blown off the very... Read more.