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Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn: Prenuptial Advice for a Same Sex Couple

05/27/2008

County registrars are gearing up for a rush of couples getting married on June 16th. That's the first day that gays and lesbians can legally marry in California. Commentators Annabelle Gurwitch and her husband Jeff Kahn decided to write a letter to two friends who are planning June nuptials.

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Doug Levitt: A Bus Ride with Private Simmons

05/20/2008

For the past four years, L.A.-based singer/songwriter Doug Levitt has been periodically criss-crossing the country on a Greyhound bus, chronicling the stories of the people he meets along the way. He's gathered his essays into a collection called "Greyhound Diaries." They're stories of Americans struggling to get by, like the young man Levitt met late one night in Colorado.

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Rob Eshman: American Jews Should Take a Closer Look at Their Relationship with Israel

05/08/2008

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel. Commentator Rob Eshman, Editor-in-Chief of The Los Angeles Jewish Journal, says it's a good time for American Jews to reflect on the nature of their relationship with the Jewish state.

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Tzivia Getzug: Battling Genocide One Cooker At a Time

02/13/2008

This month marks the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the war and genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The news out of Darfur has been relentlessly bad over the past five years. It might seem that there's not much we can do but despair for the war's victims; but commentator Tzivia Getzug says not so fast.

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Dale Hoppert: Remembering Star Wars

05/25/2007

KPCC board operator Dale Hoppert looks back on the 1977 opening of Star Wars, and being the first in line when the original trilogy was screened back-to-back-to-back in 1985.

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Jamie Court: Universal Health Plans Take Wrong Approach

03/08/2007

Jamie Court, president of the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, says the current crop of health care proposals in California would benefit political contributors more than patients.