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Author Steven J. Ross: How Hitler's sunshine fascism almost took hold in Los Angeles
Author Kurt Andersen goes looking for the dangerously strange in "Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire"
LA's new cannabis chief Cat Packer on building the city's new legal pot business from the ground up
Science educator Bill Nye on the terrifying ascendancy of American 'dingbatitude'
Documentarian Ken Burns brings "Vietnam" to PBS, the documentary about the war Americans thought we knew, told through voices we may never have listened to
United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta: In the spotlight for a new documentary, as the civil rights battles she's fought are still being waged
Women's rights campaigner Bernice Sandler: Evaluates the 37-word law that helped women to make the big plays in sports and in the classroom
California's emergency services director Mark Ghilarducci: Preparing for just about any disaster, including a nuclear one
Stanford professor John J. Donohue: The numbers show right-to-carry gun laws make for more violent crime, not less
Author Anne Helen Petersen: Women who are "Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud" are on the rise
Dr. Robert Pearl: His book offers a prescription to cure what ails American medicine
Summer of Love historian William Schnabel: It was a revolution, a happening, a turning point--and he was there for it
L.A. city attorney Mike Feuer: Speaking for the victim in the Dani Mathers case
Songwriter Jimmy Webb: All about "that" cake, "that" rain, and popular music then and now
Steve Ballmer: His new website puts all of government spending and taxing data at the click of a mouse
Author David Garrow: A new biography on how Barack Obama's political star rose
Caitlyn Jenner: No more secrets about the long journey to transgender womanhood-- and what she thinks of people who leave the toilet seat up
Urban forests expert Igor Lacan: Why city dwellers should hug trees, because they will hug us back
Filmmaker John Singleton: "L.A. Burning" documents the Los Angeles Riots 25 years later
Author Margaret Atwood: The author of "The Handmaid's Tale" on the book's passionate, enduring following and the upcoming Hulu series
Author Colleen Dunn Bates: A sixth-generation Californian on how to speak with a golden tongue in the Golden State
USC Annenberg dean Willow Bay: Leading a university journalism program into journalism's precarious future
Congressman Adam Schiff: A 9/11-style commission to investigate Russian election meddling?
Rachel Dolezal: Is race a function of who you think you are, or what face you see in the mirror?
Urban activist Mark Vallianatos: "No" on Measure S means "Yes" to a 21st-Century Los Angeles
Economist Jana Gallus: What are Oscars and other non-cash awards really worth?
Voice of America director Amanda Bennett: New audiences, new technology, and no "Trump VOA" channel
California attorney general Xavier Becerra: "We have a right to say to the federal government, 'Hands off.'"
California Senator Kamala Harris: Taking on the Trump White House in "post-11/8" America
Deleted tweets seeker Derek Willis: The tweets that Trump and other politicians didn't want you to read
First Amendment attorney Ted Boutros Jr.: Free speech and a free press in the Donald Trump era
Author and John Hughes fan Jason Diamond: Why Ferris Bueller is our Everyman
"Lore" podcast creator Aaron Mahnke: Getting to the facts about the fantastic tales humans love
Senator Barbara Boxer: Leaving the U.S. Senate, but not the struggle
Methodist minister and author Bruce Forbes' cease-fire ideas for that "War on Christmas"
Housing guru Raphael Bostic: What the Ghost Ship fire reveals about California’s problem with the roofs over our heads
Los Angeles' immigration chief Linda Lopez: Preparing the city's undocumented residents for Trump's new deportation policy
New supe in town: Kathryn Barger becomes one of LA's most powerful politicians
Law expert Hadar Aviram: Why death row doesn't work and how Charles Manson changed the California death penalty
Tunnels, trains and smart automobiles: Transit guru Edward Humes on spending L.A.'s new traffic billions
TV/filmmaker Mike Judge: The birth of "Idiocracy" and the nerds of "Silicon Valley"
Journalist Ja’han Jones: A website compiles obituaries that black Americans are writing about themselves, imagining being shot and killed by police
Playwright Joseph Rodota: Caryl Chessman‘s death row ghost as California votes on death penalty
Oppo researcher Alan Huffman: Digging dirt to clean up democracy, and the year of Donald Trump
MacArthur "don't call me genius" Fellow Josh Kun: Digging past Hollywood for LA's cultures
The woman who brought Vin Scully to Los Angeles: Roz Wyman is Dodger true-blue for the man who talks a Dodger blue streak
Caltech planet hunters Mike Brown & Konstantin Batygin: Could Planet Nine be the new Pluto?
Arson Detective Ed Nordskog: Finding the firestarters when California burns
Word wizard Edward Finegan: For LA's birthday, La La Land's tubular gifts to the world
Stanford linguist John Rickford: for black kids, changing neighborhoods can change language skills
Election fraud expert Andrew Gumbel: Donald Trump, Edgar Allan Poe, and rigging the vote
Author/activist Masha Gesson: Putin, Trump, and Wikileaks in this strange election year
Writer Ursula K. Le Guin: Imaginative fiction before Comic-Con and beyond this Earth
Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley: Clinton, Trump and the long, messy history of political conventions
Author Rebecca Traister: The all-gal "Ghostbusters," Hillary Clinton and gender stereotypes
Oscar winner Jessica Yu: How many people does it take to overpopulate the earth?
LA River thinker Matthew Gandy : Can Frank Gehry and river-lovers row together to bring the waterway back?
Lara Smith of the Liberal Gun Club: Background checks, ammo clips, safety nets, and the NRA
Actor/Producer Omar Epps: Fathers' fight to keep their families together in a new documentary for Father's Day
Dr. Katrina Hedberg: How Oregon's death with dignity law works, as California's version takes effect
Senator Barbara Boxer: The lifelong Democrat sizes up Bernie Sanders, Edward Snowden, Donald Trump-- and even sings a (very) little bit
Campaign pioneer Stuart Spencer: Ronald Reagan's first political guru takes on Donald Trump and the Republican Party for not bringing Latinos into the GOP tent
Univision's Jorge Ramos: The renowned Latino TV host whose immigration question riled Donald Trump
Director Whit Stillman: Jane Austen’s nice girls finish last in the new film and book “Love & Friendship”
RAND's Brian Michael Jenkins: Terrorists, technology, and the tradeoffs of freedom and security
Statistics mythbuster Gary Smith: Prince, David Bowie, and those funny numbers about celebrity deaths and baseball superstitions
Shakespeare on love, sex, racism and evil: How a dead white guy still rocks our world 400 years later
Alan Alda: the actor and science fan teaches modern Einsteins how to be Carl Sagans too
LA's Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez: Poetry the hard way, for National Poetry Month
Seismologist Lucy Jones: The “Earthquake Lady” retires, but still awaits California’s “Big One”
Patt Morrison Asks - Humor and health expert Lee Berk
Patt Morrison Asks - Robert O. Paxton, Professor Emeritus
Patt Morrison Asks - Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson
Patt Morrison Asks - FOX's "Bordertown" writers, Lalo Alcaraz & Gustavo Arellano
Patt Morrison Asks - LAUSD Superintendent Michelle King
Patt Morrison Asks - Dr. Bennet Omalu
Patt Morrison Asks - LAPD Chief Charlie Beck
Patt Morrison Asks - A New Podcast from the Los Angeles Times!