With conservatives back in power, public media is getting back to what it really excels at. No, not objective, impartial reporting. If NPR and PBS focused on that, they wouldn’t need to be so good at their side hustle: desperately lobbying Congress not to defund them. Now that they’re good at. The lobbying efforts have […]

In 2019, the Los Angeles Fire Department’s current deputy chief appeared in a promotional video for a television drama about firefighters. In the video, deputy chief Kristine Larson, who is both black and lesbian, extolled the virtues of inclusivity and diversity while bemoaning that a traditionally male space is not immediately accommodating to women. “The […]

As the California wildfires began tearing through vast swaths of Los Angeles last week, a troubling reality emerged: The officials responsible for safeguarding the public were woefully unprepared, lacking a comprehensive disaster response plan to address the crisis. Firefighters in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, where the first fire broke out, faced a critical obstacle: no […]

With President-elect Donald Trump‘s inauguration Monday, Republicans in Congress have a golden opportunity to pass a slate of policies that would improve the lives of everyday Americans. As always, however, Washington is hung up on the details instead of the outcomes, with members currently arguing whether to deliver on the president-elect’s policy mandate with one […]