“While architects are primarily focused on the aesthetic and functional design of buildings (and other entities)–that is, conceptualizing and actually envisioning the building design and how the parts fit and […]
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California Globe’s biased attack on Assemblymember Corey Jackson exposes how politics and partisanship are corroding journalism
Assemblymember Corey A. Jackson is my friend. An outspoken advocate for equity, fairness, public health, and social service resources for our Inland Valley community, I have come to admire and […]
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The politics of Dolly Parton’s African legacy
My grandmother used to tell me, “It’s music and culture that’s gonna save you’all, or it’s the politics and quarrelin’ and always ready for war that’ll eventually kill all ya’ll.. […]
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The Politics of more N-Stuff in public
Similiar to the Academy Awards show a few years ago, when Will Smith grabbed all the headlines for ‘slapping the *** out of a Black comedian who had just made […]
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The Politics of sounding the alarm bell of a major catastrophe coming
Our current POTUS has clearly done some very bizarre things since he’s been in charge this second time around. One of those things is the continuing attempt to “sue himself” […]
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The politics of cultivating our democracy, or losing it
Currently, in American public schools generally, political science courses seem to be regularly ignored or at least de-emphasized. That is a real problem, since a constant re-education on what democracy […]
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The politics of post-Trump
This week’s OpED article was a mess of a choice. Trump, the Master Blaster (remember Tina Turner’s “Thunderdome” project?), pushing his massive weight around onto and into spaces that were […]
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The Politics of who belongs and who does not
The latest Supreme Court spectacle struggling over the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of American citizenship–some people call it the “Anchor Baby case”–was actually the most important case to date for the […]
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The Politics of knowing who the joke’s on now
Tricksters and “frenemies” in politics will seemingly always rise up to make public comments or demonstrations on the state of things, particularly when that state is not good. Besides continually […]
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Kalshi’s ‘Segregation Market’ Turns Black Suffering Into a Betting Line
How much would you have bet on Rosa Parks moving to the back of the bus? This is the kind of information that Kalshi, a U. S. prediction market, wants […]
