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What Comes Next For Iran On The Brink.
The numbers coming out of Iran stop you cold: 12,000 to 20,000 dead in 48 hours. Not across months of civil war or years of grinding conflict, but co…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
What We Lost When Diversity Became Politics
Diversity has become a political weapon—but what if it was never meant to be political at all? UC Berkeley law professor David Oppenheimer argues in …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Are We All in Cults Now?
Daniella Mestyanek Young escaped a notorious sex cult, then joined the Army where she studied terrorists—and recognized the same coercive tactics eve…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
An Artist’s Insane Technique for Disturbing Times
On this recent California Sun Podcast, I spoke with Los Angeles-based artist Laurie Lipton about creating massive political works in chaotic times, h…
3 months ago
When the Video Isn't Enough: How LA Fought Back After Rodney King—and What It Means for Minneapolis Today
It started with Rodney King—eighty-two seconds of video that should have changed everything but didn't. Thirty-four years later, after George Floyd a…
3 months ago
The Wine Industry In Crisis
Esther Mobley, the senior wine critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, joins me on the California Sun podcast to talk about California and the world’…
3 months, 1 week ago
From Ocean to Bloodstream: The Truth About Plastic
Two garbage trucks of plastic hit the ocean every minute. Microplastics are in your brain. Recycling doesn’t work. What the plastic industry never to…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Tom Freston reflects on how MTV changed our music, our culture, and even California
Last week, MTV officially shut down, ending an era that revolutionized music, video, and shaped California’s youth culture. Tom Freston co-founded th…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Technophobia Trap: How America Lost Its Nerve in the Age of AI
Why is America uniquely terrified of AI while the world races ahead? The arguments driving that fear often collapse under scrutiny—real concerns go u…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Fired by Email: What It Felt Like To Be Targeted by DOGE’s Federal Purge
Eleven federal workers reveal what it felt like to be fired by Musk’s DOGE — the emails, the trauma, and the institutional destruction we’ve never he…
3 months, 4 weeks ago