Willie Horton

Jackie Robinson Day: Los Angeles, the Dodgers and Major League Baseball Celebrate

It's Jackie Robinson Day, America. And it's Jackie Robinson day across America. The third Monday in January of every year we celebrate the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. And on April 15 we remember the day Jackie Robinson became the first "Negro" player in Major League Baseball.

Jon Spencer, Extra Wide

Blues Explosion revisited onstage and in recordings

ACLU Backs Prop. 19, The Pot Initiative

​ California's three ACLU affiliates announced today they are backing Prop 19, the statewide initiative to legalize pot for those 21 and older. The measure will be on the ballot in November. "Enforcement of marijuana prohibition consumes a great deal of California's law enforcement and cour ... More >>

Trutanich Crime Ad: Tempest in PC Teapot

Until last Sunday, many if not most Los Angeles voters had probably only heard of one of the City Attorney candidates, the somewhat annoying Westside City Councilman Jack Weiss. But then the Los Angeles Times endorsed Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich and we suddenly realized a race was on. The Times assu ... More >>

LAFF 2008: Boogeymen are coming to get'cha!

No, not this guy. But he makes a better visual than the “stars” of the two documentaries I’m about to discuss. One is BOOGIE MAN, a story about the life and influence of the late Republican campaign manager Lee Atwater. The other features the closest thing to a real-life bogeyman, an honest-to ... More >>

Hillary Clinton Wins, Republican Style

(Be afraid, be very afraid)

Children of the Revolutionary

Former black revolutionary Watani Stiner turned himself in to San Quentin so his children could come to America. Was it worth it?

Running Like Bushes

The Hahn campaign is modeled on Karl Rove�s and Lee Atwater�s greatest hits

Hunter Without the Fear or Loathing

Thompson defies expectations during a pilgrimage to Woody Creek

Hail Mary

And why John Kerry has nothing to do with it

Pimps and Wimps

Swift boats and briar patches

Grief�s Gravity

When Jesica Santillan died of a botched heart-lung transplant, Nancy Rommelmann was nearly swallowed by the story.

A Prayer for Rev. Al

Let him buy his soul back from the Republicans

Strom's Curtains

Start Packing, Gray

The White House gets into the act to dump the governor

Give It Up, Al

Fair Pay

Inside the battle for a living wage in Santa Monica

The Fictional Candidate

Bumbling Bill Simon could provoke Democratic sweep

The Era of Bad Feelings

Jim Hahn sets a city against itself, and comes out on top

The Great Divide

Why Cornel West, Barbara Ehrenreich, Alexander Cockburn, Katha Pollitt and others are voting for Ralph Nader . . .And why Todd Gitlin, Ishmael Reed, Arlie Hochschild, Robert Scheer and others are not

Masters of Deceit

Behind Santa Monica�s breathtakingly bogus living-wage initiative

A Death in Texas

An 'ordinary' execution gets completely out of hand