Reflections & Observations: Heaven and Hell
Someone said that in the movies of the 1930s and 1940s, Manhattan symbolized hell while Connecticut represented heaven...

Resolving The Differences
Now that voters have approved Santa Monica College’s $160 million bond measure, it is time for the college, its neighbors and City Hall to resolve their various differences...

What We Know About War
Most of what most of us know about war we learn at the movies...

Letters To The Editor

Bay City Beat: “I hear America translating…”
Walt Whitman worked in English, and there has never been much controversy regarding his decision to do so...

Point of View: The Dangers of Multiculturalism
For the purposes of this article, multiculturalism is to be viewed as the practice of incorporating non-American cultures into public education...

COMMENTARY: The Urge To Converge
“Mere size is no sin against the law,’’ President William Howard Taft told Congress in 1911, in defense of the legislation that had enabled his GOP predecessor...

The Last Word x 2

In Her Opinion: 9/11
This is the week New York, the country, the world commemorates 9/11. In the six ensuing months, the war in Afghanistan has yet to produce Osama bin Laden, dead or alive...