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A new deadly year begins in LA County’s Jails

January 14, 2026
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December 31, 2025
Prison Policy

The Menendez Brothers, Part 3: the Myth of the Model Inmate

December 30, 2025
Prison Policy

The Menendez Brothers, Part 2: How discipline plays an outsized role in CA parole decisions

December 30, 2025
Prison Policy

What the Menendez Brothers Parole hearings tell us about prison discipline, Part 1

December 29, 2025
#NoSafePlace

Is LA County’s women’s jail still an unsafe place for women to be? A new lawsuit says YES

December 28, 2025
Civil Liberties

JPL Scientists Haven’t Landed a Lasting Victory

June 16, 2009
11 Comments

Kozinski’s questions aren’t going away The feds’, in their anti-terror fervor...

ACLU • Bill Bratton • Civil Liberties

A Deal Any Chief Could Endorse

June 15, 2009
16 Comments

The rowdy Lakers fans who rampaged through the streets around Staples Center on Sunday night...

California Supreme Court • Los Angeles Times

Til Cowardly Ruling Do We Part

June 14, 2009
22 Comments

Should voters toss the chief justice in 2010? It doesn’t take a legal scholar to point out...

Environment • Government • Health Care • Journalism • Los Angeles Times • Transportation

Driven (Partly) Sane by Congestion Pricing

June 12, 2009
15 Comments

Ugly Secret: They never were free If it were up to me, trucks and solo drivers would be banned from...

Writers and Writing

The Bad News & the Good News

June 11, 2009
31 Comments

The bad news (for me) is that I’m stuck at the Detroit airport (Don’t ask. Suffice it...

Education • Writers and Writing

As Layoffs Loom, the Power of Kids and Written Words Bloom

June 10, 2009
12 Comments

The hunger-striking LAUSD teachers are in their second week. They still hope to shame or persuade...

Free Speech • LGBTQ • Media

KRXQ Gets the Message—After Sponsors Pull Support

June 9, 2009
87 Comments

Complaints poured in to KRXQ, after radio hosts for the Sacramento-based radio station, Arnie...

Media

Jon Stewart on the Media (and Stephen Colbert in Iraq)

June 9, 2009
4 Comments

These clips from the Daily Show need little comment. The first one is from June 3, the second two...

California Budget • Economy

Social Justice Shorts

June 8, 2009
32 Comments

GO, LAKERS!!! (Okay. Now down to...

LAPD

Dear DOJ, We Want Our Police Department Back

June 5, 2009
19 Comments

It has been over eight years since the Department of Justice forced talked the Los Angeles Police...

LGBTQ • Media

Did KRXQ Radio Jocks Advocate Verbal Abuse of Transgender Children?

June 4, 2009
72 Comments

According to Sacramento’s KRXQ radio hosts, Rob Williams and Arnie States, if you have a...

Gangs • Writers and Writing

Homeboy Poets and the Healing Power of Words

June 4, 2009
5 Comments

If in midst of our collective budget horrors— and this weird season of soon-to-be...

California Budget • Environment • State Government • State Politics

State Parks, Summer School….and Inflammatory Rhetoric

June 3, 2009
55 Comments

FISCAL BLOWBACK: BEFORE SHUTTING STATE PARKS….PLEASE DO THE MATH There were committee...

City Government • LA City Government • Los Angeles Writers • Media

Chatting With the City Attorney-Elect

June 2, 2009
21 Comments

This weekend I had a short but interesting chat with our soon-to-be City Attorney, Carmen...

California Budget

Budget Bloodbath: Sheila Explains It All – Part I

June 2, 2009
5 Comments

On Monday, higher education officials told a legislative committee that the proposed budget cuts...

Economy • Homelessness • LAUSD • Social Justice Shorts

Social Justice Shorts

June 1, 2009
9 Comments

HOMEBOY POETS TODAY! At 3 p.m. today, the UCLA School of Public Affairs’ Department of Social...

Civil Rights • Crime and Punishment • Public Health

The Murder of Dr. George Tiller

June 1, 2009
28 Comments

Wichita, Kansas physician, Dr. George Tiller, was one of the three doctors in the U.S. who...

California Budget • Juvenile Justice • Prison • Prison Policy

Dreams From the Monster Factory: Hope for America’s Prisons

May 29, 2009
9 Comments

The California budget cuts seem to get more draconian hourly. (Do we really think it’s a good...

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