by Melissa Cedillo and Antonio De Loera-Brust | Nov 4, 2025 | Opinion
Our Jesuit education has made us who we are. For one thing, we met as students at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, so we owe our marriage to the institution. One of us was a lapsed cradle Catholic majoring in film production, the other a recent...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Oct 8, 2025 | Opinion
When automobiles replaced the horse and buggy in the early twentieth century, entire industries disappeared—blacksmiths, horse stables, whip makers and carriage manufacturers. You couldn’t give away horses. Still, newer jobs in the automotive industry replaced these...
by Craig Nash | Jan 2, 2025 | Feature, Opinion
While much of the United States was with their families on Christmas, enjoying one of the only nationally sanctioned days when large numbers of us are allowed to disengage from work, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk were exposing a rift in MAGA-world over the idea of...
by Jack Moline | Dec 5, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Eric Hoffer was a longshoreman during the middle of the last century. He grew up in a hardscrabble existence, orphaned, itinerant and impoverished. Early in his life, he recovered somewhat unexpectedly from an injury that took most of his vision. To protect the return...
