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Introducing: Rebuilding L.A.
Pop Sci editor Corinne Iozzio: a 19th-century magazine goes all 21st century on COVID-19 and more
“World War Z” ‘s Max Brooks: For years, we’ve made plans for this crisis. Why haven’t we used them?
Birdman Steve Holmer: with 3 billion birds vanishing from North American skies in 50 years, how do we keep them flying?
Science writer Laura Spinney: how the 1918 flu epidemic gives us clues to our coronavirus reaction
USC’s Mindy Romero: can Super Tuesday see super turnouts of young, Latino and Asian-American voters?
Author Andrea McDonnell: Kobe Bryant and the fickle nature of fame
Sacramento’s Daniel Zingale: the retiring adviser to governors leaves behind one last to-do list
Recycling guru Richard Gertman: let’s come clean about recycling, and rethink our consumer habits
Elections guru Richard Hasen: Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy 2020
Intelligence veteran Malcolm Nance’s grand slam: President Trump, the military, and Putin’s Russia
Scott Galloway: California’s gig economy, privacy laws will be the nation’s “heavyweight prizefight”
Composer, writer, “Python” comedian Eric Idle: his anarchic humor heads for the Huntington archives
Rep. Karen Bass: Impeach or not, Congress must fix democracy’s “serious weaknesses” exposed by Trump
Director Scott Z. Burns: why “The Report” on CIA torture interrogation needed to be a feature film
GOP strategist Rick Wilson: warning signs and wreckage of Trump’s “loud, messy, ugly” 2020 campaign
Lawyer Linda Coberly: what happens if the Equal Rights Amendment makes it into the Constitution?
Activist Holly Jacobs on “revenge porn” and, post-Katie Hill, a federal law to protect victims
ACLU’s Matt Cagle: facial ID software opens your phone but can open you up to privacy intrusions
Google ex-chief Eric Schmidt: why the market is the go-to answer for what ails the internet
China scholar Kenneth Pomeranz: why that NBA team manager’s tweet struck such a raw nerve there
Never Trumper Sarah Longwell: getting the GOP to stand up to Trump for constitutional conservatism
Ed Avol and Chip Jacobs: Trump’s smog decree vs. your lungs, and seven startling LA smog facts
Salman Rushdie: a hero’s quest in a reality-TV world, and what wouldn’t be in an authentic LA novel
Author Dana Thomas: Fast fashion is cheap, wasteful, and hurting the planet -- and you can stop it
MIT’s Sinan Aral: you can measure election interference – if the “transparency paradox” allows it
Director Tom Donahue: Hollywood’s labor problem is a gender bias problem
Conspiracy analysts Joseph Uscinski: 21stcentury American fears trade on “invasion, white genocide”
Author Susan Phillips: A century-long fight for public space and recognition in Los Angeles graffiti
Theane Evangelis: Asking the Supreme Court what’s constitutional in fixing homelessness homeless
Author David Runciman: a century of surviving crises leaves democracy too confident-and vulnerable
Author Douglas Brinkley: JFK and America’s grand, improbable race to put men on the moon
Citlali Fabian: using old equipment, a Oaxacan photographer records her even older culture
PETA's Ingrid Newkirk: doing whatever it takes to protect animals, ugly ones as well as cute ones
Media law prof Doreen Weisenhaus: journalism and justice in Assange and San Francisco cases
Trump's master fact-checker Daniel Dale: untruth and consequences
MPAA's Joan Graves : 30 years of watching three movies a day -- and assigning them parental ratings
Norman Mineta – Pearl Harbor and 9/11 as defining moment in a statesman’s life
Two documentarians introduce us to the Olympics of science fairs and its brilliant teen competitors
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: chasing the world’s secrets to life and happiness that often elude Americans
Scientist Adam Rutherford: for Earth Day, the paradoxical and powerful creature called homo sapiens
Terry Tempest Williams: the death of a red oak and a brother, the life of the “untaintable” West
Shane Claiborne’s Bible-inspired weapons “meltdown” -- evangelizing for Jesus and against guns
Broad Foundation chief Gerun Riley: making 21st-century philanthropy work
Sociologist Jerome Karabel: admissions scandal shows privileged are desperate to keep it that way
Thinking of un-borders: author Luis Alberto Urrea and the nature of the US-Mexico "border planet"
California water messager Niki Woodard: selling the drought after the deluge
Tax whisperer Anne Alstott: what our tax code reveals about our national character
Author Richard Beck: what underlies the child sexual abuse hysteria, from McMartin to Pizzagate
Author Barbara Ehrenreich takes on the contradictions of “successful aging”
Author Craig Coenen on the NFL’s rise from scruffy, small-town sport to Super Bowl glory [ go, Rams]
Jodie Evans brings her esthetic, her politics, and her CodePink thinking to the California Arts Council
Energy whiz Severin Borenstein: keeping the lights on and the fires out after PG&E bankruptcy
Historian Ellen Fitzpatrick: A Hundred-Year Hurrah for Women’s Votes
Mike Madrid's New Year's resolution to save the California GOP: start all over again
Linguist George Lakoff on why the GOP is better at messaging, and how Democrats can close that gap
California law makes locking up guns easier than locking up possibly dangerous gun owners
Historian Mario T. Garcia: pioneering LA sanctuary priest Luis Olivares is worthy of sainthood
Harvard's Yochai Benkler: analyzing the "propaganda feedback loop" of rightwing media
Author Leo Braudy charts the family tree of Halloween monsters that we love to scare us
Starman Neil deGrasse Tyson on the overlap of astrophysics and the military
Susan Orlean "The Library Book," about the Los Angeles fire that made us love libraries better
Historian Nicolas Wey-Gomez on how Columbus' exploits inspired early human rights laws
Songwriter Burt Bacharach , at 90 , composes a music video plea to stop school shootings
Former Secretary of State John Kerry on the "disarray" created by Donald Trump, and fixes for our "broken" politics
Superfan Eliyannah Amirah Yisrael wants you to love the Harry Potter books - and Hermione Granger - as she does
Immigration judge A. Ashley Tabaddor: Justice Department could make judges "prosecutors in judge's robes."
Author Tom Lutz on how vacation season brings out Americans' inner slacker-- and inner workaholic
Street artist Thrashbird takes his work to the streets - and on billboards above them
Kids TV expert Dale Kunkel : FCC deregulation could nearly wipe out children's broadcast educational TV
Filmmaker Kimberly Reed: a documentary thriller on the Big Sky State vs. big "dark money"
Filmmaker Boots Riley: the spectacle and the power of movies versus movements
Political analyst Bill Schneider sizes up "America the Ungovernable"
International scholar Ann Kerr: working to open the world, in spite of bans and walls
Former immigration chief Doris Meissner: border security shouldn't mean separating families and shutting out the world
Lawyer Daniel P. Tokaji on whether the right to vote is a use-it-or-lose-it proposition
Equal Rights Amendment leader Jessica Neuwirth: not one more year's wait, let alone one hundred
Photojournalist Boris Yaro: the 50-year remembered pain of photographing the assassinated RFK
Free-range kids advocate Lenore Skenazy: Stop thinking children need to be tracked like FedEx packages.
Women's and men's rights author Warren Farrell: what underlines the "incel rebellion"?
California’s air quality chief: if Trump’s EPA gets its way, we’ll be “fumigated” again by pollution
Author Richard Powers’ novel about humans’ war against trees - and why both sides could lose
Since Jordon Dyrdahl-Roberts quit his job rather than give data to ICE, life has taken a turn
For "tax day," UC Berkeley’s Dacher Keltner on how tax cuts affect the rich and poor differently.
Anchor Judy Woodruff on the dare-to-be-boring PBS NewsHour in the era of Twitter and “fake news”
Could Facebook throw an election? “Of course they could,” cautions Silicon Valley’s Aza Raskin.
Author Steven Pinker’s long, uplifting view of human progress -- even in spite of humans themselves
Senator Dianne Feinstein -- the assault weapons foe considers whether Donald Trump can really be the man who can carry gun control reform over the goal line.
Joan Baez's fabled voice has changed over her 60 years of singing, but her passion for civil rights and human rights has not.
LAPD commissioner Sandra Figueroa-Villa on choosing a new police chief for Los Angeles
Maimuna Syed: A big Trump ballot backlash means prepping more women candidates to run for office
Comedy writer Laurie Kilmartin’s book “Dead People Suck” also shows how much the living suck at handling death, and tells us how to do better.
Radio legend Art Laboe, who pioneered dedication shows and trademarked "oldies but goodies," is still riding the airwaves six nights a week
Freeway blogger Patrick Randall: He writes the signs that make the whole driving world see his message
Whatever voter ID laws require, whatever candidate you support, Voteriders and Kathleen Unger want to put the ID, and the rules, right in your hands
Polymath performer John Hodgman rats out the state of Maine and his own foibles and follicles in his book "Vacationland"
Nobel laureate Kip Thorne on the team that saw the waves that change the universe-- and a national science gap
Feminist author and editor Kate Harding explains the ferocious power in owning the phrase "nasty woman"
Former adman Andrew Essex: Why bad ads deserve to die, and what might replace them
Writer Salman Rushdie's new novel of a rich immigrant family sizes up New York in the age of Trump