Features on Justice For All

2010-09-01 Donuts at 2 A.M.: August, the Mother of All Months by Gary Phillips
Did anyone really believe this Don Draper crossed with Lonesome Rhodes would succeed in hijacking the legacy of the momentous March on Washington?
2010-08-24 Oklahoma Dreaming: In the Crossfire by Donna Schoenkopf
They sent anti-Muslim, anti-Obama sentiments, and flags were imprinted next to their writings because they are Americans and good Christians.
2010-08-23 Lost in OC: Vampires, Sucking on the People’s Blut by Jim Washburn
My wife is hooked on True Blood, HBO’s hemosexual romp that’s half bodice-ripping soap-opera, half Zalman King-styled softcore kink porn.
2010-08-18 Donuts at 2 A.M.: The Big Bite by Gary Phillips
In South L.A., according to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Advocacy, one third of teenagers there are obese, nearly twice the county average.
2010-08-13 California Dreaming: Bus Stop by Rebecca Schoenkopf
I kept telling people I was going to grad school, but didn’t exactly offer where. Once they inevitably asked, I’d make my embarrassed face and positively mumble: “USC.”
2010-08-12 MasterPlanning!: Including Affordable Housing Somehow by Tony Chavira
Across the wider spectrum of society, lots of homebuilding means lots of affordable housing. That is, as long as stuff’s always being built.
2010-08-04 Donuts at 2 A.M.: The Shape of Things to Come by Gary Phillips
Just when I’m ready to ignore one more overdue notice from the L.A. Times, son-of-a-gun if they don’t prove there yet remains a reason for the daily newspaper.
2010-07-29 MasterPlanning!: Your Local Police Officer’s Job by Tony Chavira
The logic is still prevalent today: police cars can roam freely under the assumption that police can take down more hard crime with a faster overall rate of success.
2010-07-23 California Dreaming: Some More, Please by Rebecca Schoenkopf
I listen to the Mel Gibson tapes, and the lawyers’ takes on their admissibility. I am the reason the Huffington Post overpromises so gloriously in its hyperventilating headlines.
2010-07-22 MasterPlanning!: Unemployment Payments: From Trickle-Down to Trickle-Up by Tony Chavira
It’s illuminating how often I’ve read comparisons between Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan, particular regarding their ungodly abilities to inspire people.
2010-07-17 It’s Gonna Happen, Kids: Progress in the Face of Prop 8 by Loni Shibuyama
Then the blame game started, and the finger-pointing began, along with declarations of our failure. We failed as a political movement. We failed as a community.
2010-07-15 MasterPlanning!: Why Don’t We Ever Have Enough Affordable Housing? by Tony Chavira
Visit the website for just about any municipality in the United States, any large developer’s site, or the vast majority of urban advocacy sites, and you’ll find …
2010-07-14 In Transit: Travel Planning and the Digital Divide by David Deutsch
Like most new business owners, I’m pretty much broke. But I have to go to San Francisco for business. So what’s a broke, self-employed guy to do?
2010-07-12 Gay Pride in Cuba: The Campaign for GLBT Rights by Byron Motley
On the outside looking in, one would assume that Cuba is stuck in a time warp. Marked by decaying buildings, vintage automobiles, and a lack of modern amenities …
2010-07-05 Lost in OC: In This House That I Call Home by Jim Washburn
On this date in history, one has to presume, our Founding Fathers were drunk off their brandy-packed asses, celebrating the lovely document they had just brought forth.
2010-07-02 California Dreaming: Outlaws by Rebecca Schoenkopf
The little girl who won this year was a perfect little girl. You could see it in her straight little back and the big, sober eyes in her serious face.
2010-07-01 MasterPlanning!: Sci-Fi Density and Social Justice by Tony Chavira
What I’m interested in here is vision: what kind of utopian future will we choose for ourselves, and what creative ideas and concepts will shape this amazing future in your city?
2010-06-30 In Transit: Could Afghanistan’s Riches Destabilize the U.S. Economy? by David Deutsch
Yes, I know this is a loaded question. But if it’s true that past is prologue, the discovery in Afghanistan of one trillion dollars in mineral deposits …
2010-06-28 Lost in OC: My Kind of Town: Costa Mesa by Jim Washburn
The whole world seems out of whack lately—floods, oil plumes, earthquakes—and I think it started when the Arches had to move from its original PCH location.
2010-06-14 Lost in OC: The Inconvenient American by Jim Washburn
I wrote a letter to the L.A. Times. I do that two or three times a year, and just as often the Times deigns not to print them.
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