If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive, how would he have approached the Trump era?
Unlike the many people who are upset that Donald Trump is being inaugurated on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I ...
Tag: Op-Ed
5 lessons in kindness from outside L.A.’s evacuation zone
The fires have tested but also reinforced my belief that we create beauty from life’s challenges. Here are five lessons ...
Los Angeles and the literature of the apocalypse
I don’t believe in prescience. I don’t believe, for instance, that when Octavia E. Butler began to write her 1993 ...
What a century-old disaster can teach fire-ravaged L.A. about recovery and rebuilding
A city devastated; neighbors coming to its aid; the hunt for a scapegoat: Though the Angelenos enduring wildfires today lead ...
Calmes: The case of the missing Hegseth investigation
For folks who have so harshly turned on the FBI for supposedly targeting Donald Trump over the years, Republicans sure ...
L.A. was lucky, with lots of help fighting fires. But no one should count on luck
As bad as the fires in the Los Angeles area have been — more than 12,000 structures burned, about 180,000 ...
The fiery and icy weather of the West and East Coasts is no coincidence
The Hollywood sign stands sentinel above Los Angeles, watching as embers dance through the January night like wayward stars. Glowing ...
Abcarian: California’s cycle of fiery destruction and reconstruction is longer than you might think
For the first time in memory, everyone around here either knows someone or is someone who has lost a home ...
Conservatives like me fear Trump will break through guardrails that restrained him last time
President-elect Trump’s imminent return to the White House sparks a pressing question: Can the guardrails of American democracy survive another ...
After the surgeon general’s warning on alcohol, people of faith should rethink sacramental wine
I grew up seeing wine as a symbol of joy, holiness and a tool for elevating the mundane. From the ...
