Opinion Columns

As Trump Continues To Terrorize Los Angeles, the Question Remains: Who Are These Masked Men?
Ruben Navarrette, Jun. 26, 2025
SAN DIEGO — As they try to tell the complicated story of what has been happening for the last three weeks on the streets of Los Angeles, the media have been making a big mistake.

Parents Push Back Against the Trump Administration's Latest Attack on Working Families
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU, Jun. 23, 2025
The Trump administration has followed through on its promise to gut the Head Start program. Since April, it has slashed 60% of the Office of Head Start staff, closed half of the regional offices where staff with local knowledge worked, delayed funding necessary for payroll and rent and undermined the program's mission through its ban on anything it views as promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and/or accessibility, or "DEIA.

The Truth of American Slavery Is in My DNA
Holding Space for Good, Jun. 19, 2025
With a last name like Feldkamp, I fully expected my DNA results from 23andMe to confirm what I thought I already knew. My ancestry is predominantly German.