“Are you afraid of what could happen if the authorities find out you spoke to a journalist?” I asked the grieving father as we sat in his kitchen in the Crimean city of Bakhchysarai. “No, I’m...
Jonathan Oberlander wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that a Medicare for All healthcare proposal would generate “fierce resistance from conservatives and the business community.”...
In the life of every individual, a certain maturing must eventually take place. We learn that Santa Claus is not real. We come to terms with the fact The Republican Idea Of Personal Responsibility...
While most British cops are not allowed to carry guns, the use of tasers has somehow slipped through the net. Nobody seemed to vote on it, yet the police carry them regardless. However, it has been...
How much news should we really be reading? The news frenzy that ignited during the 2016 election hasn’t abated since Donald Trump took office. How could it? Every single day there’s a new crisis,...
LA Weekly has been one of Los Angeles’ main alternative news sources since 1978, but a disturbing recent change in ownership and management has Angelenos concerned about the future of journalism in...
Recently, Donald Trump’s claim that he turned down TIME’s opportunity to be Person of the Year again (though he called it Man of the Year) was disputed by the publication. I saw speculation that...
Come February, Janet Yellen will not be returning as Chair of the Federal Reserve. That title will belong to monetary moderate Jerome Powell, who was recently chosen by Donald Trump to replace...
When I was first involved in gay politics in the 1990s, the “T” was only just beginning to commonly be added to the letters LGB. The bisexual members of our community felt rightly discouraged...
This year’s UN Climate Summit — hosted in Bonn, Germany through tomorrow, 11/17 — is almost over, but the clear leaders have emerged, and they’re not the United States. Now that Syria has...
