The ongoing loss of mental health programming in our schools is discouraging and may have devastating consequences for young people in our community.

Airstrikes on Iran have created two predictable reactions abroad. One is an anti-war absolutism, rooted in the history of imperial interventions and sobering precedents. After 20 years of American presence in Afghanistan, women’s rights have rolled back to Taliban-era restrictions. The other…

The past year in Stephen Miller’s America has been unbearably bleak. When masked thugs with “blanket immunity” kidnap 5-year-olds and murder nurses, it tends to darken the national mood. But international mega-star Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (aka Bad Bunny) took the stage during the Supe…

A few days ago, on my way to work, along the north side of the neighborhood middle school, I found myself in the middle of an ICE convoy. It was drop-off time. Kids. Backpacks. Parents waving. And then, right there, federal vehicles filled to the brim with masked men.

Despite the ongoing internet blackout in Iran that began around Jan. 8, images and reports have leaked that prove the state is even more violent than it used to be, a brutal standard to surpass. An image that haunts me shows a man in a hospital gown shot in the forehead. Reports say security…

This year, I added to my list of New Year’s goals and resolutions: to read the stack of free books that I received as a Christmas gift from Old Capitol Books in Monterey.