We’ll get to a better definition of “sustainable” in just a moment. For now, imagine that everything you dispose of in just one week has been assembled into a neat pile. That’s solid waste or […]

The results are now in, and this week’s primary election appears to have given voters exactly what they wanted: a whole bunch of fall runoff contests that figure to be decided not by extreme partisans […]

It’s difficult to write about horrible things and to expect others to read about them, especially when they are the heartbreaking residues of war. With history as our lesson book, we should by now be […]

Doug Liman, director of “The Bourne Identity,” “Swingers,” and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” is directing a film about torture, specifically government-sanctioned torture. He and I talked about making the film, Reckoning With Torture. Here is […]

Neither Proposition 28 nor 29 on Tuesday’s ballot aroused any significant emotion – and maybe that’s why the limited proposition action in this primary resulted in one smashing victory and one very close call. Term […]

It’s June, always a great time to get riled-up early about whether or not those nativity scenes with the mannequins should return to Palisades Park this Christmas. Before I launch into any discussion about that, […]

At budgeting time, when legislators and the governor decide how much state support each public school pupil should get, it’s pretty clear that some students are more equal than others, as the late “Animal Farm” […]

Less than two weeks after this column exposed a situation where tens of millions of state tax dollars were given to billion-dollar corporations – but only with approval from other billion-dollar corporations – the California […]