Patt Morrison Asks
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A companion podcast to L.A. Times columnist Patt Morrison's weekly interview series "Patt Morrison Asks." Patt Morrison is a longtime Los Angeles Times writer and columnist who has a share of two Pulitzer Prizes. Her broadcasting work has won six Emmys and 11 Golden Mikes. Her book about the Los Angeles River was a bestseller, and she was the first woman in nearly 25 years to be honored with the L.A. Press Club’s lifetime achievement award. Pink’s, the legendary Hollywood hot dog stand, named its veggie dog after her.
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Introducing: Rebuilding L.A.
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Pop Sci editor Corinne Iozzio: a 19th-century magazine goes all 21st century on COVID-19 and more
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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“World War Z” ‘s Max Brooks: For years, we’ve made plans for this crisis. Why haven’t we used them?
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Birdman Steve Holmer: with 3 billion birds vanishing from North American skies in 50 years, how do we keep them flying?
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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Science writer Laura Spinney: how the 1918 flu epidemic gives us clues to our coronavirus reaction
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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USC’s Mindy Romero: can Super Tuesday see super turnouts of young, Latino and Asian-American voters?
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Author Andrea McDonnell: Kobe Bryant and the fickle nature of fame
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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Sacramento’s Daniel Zingale: the retiring adviser to governors leaves behind one last to-do list
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Recycling guru Richard Gertman: let’s come clean about recycling, and rethink our consumer habits
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Elections guru Richard Hasen: Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy 2020
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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Intelligence veteran Malcolm Nance’s grand slam: President Trump, the military, and Putin’s Russia
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Scott Galloway: California’s gig economy, privacy laws will be the nation’s “heavyweight prizefight”
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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Composer, writer, “Python” comedian Eric Idle: his anarchic humor heads for the Huntington archives
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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Rep. Karen Bass: Impeach or not, Congress must fix democracy’s “serious weaknesses” exposed by Trump
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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Director Scott Z. Burns: why “The Report” on CIA torture interrogation needed to be a feature film
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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GOP strategist Rick Wilson: warning signs and wreckage of Trump’s “loud, messy, ugly” 2020 campaign
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Lawyer Linda Coberly: what happens if the Equal Rights Amendment makes it into the Constitution?
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Activist Holly Jacobs on “revenge porn” and, post-Katie Hill, a federal law to protect victims
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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ACLU’s Matt Cagle: facial ID software opens your phone but can open you up to privacy intrusions
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Google ex-chief Eric Schmidt: why the market is the go-to answer for what ails the internet
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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China scholar Kenneth Pomeranz: why that NBA team manager’s tweet struck such a raw nerve there
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Never Trumper Sarah Longwell: getting the GOP to stand up to Trump for constitutional conservatism
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Ed Avol and Chip Jacobs: Trump’s smog decree vs. your lungs, and seven startling LA smog facts
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Salman Rushdie: a hero’s quest in a reality-TV world, and what wouldn’t be in an authentic LA novel
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Author Dana Thomas: Fast fashion is cheap, wasteful, and hurting the planet -- and you can stop it
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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MIT’s Sinan Aral: you can measure election interference – if the “transparency paradox” allows it
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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Director Tom Donahue: Hollywood’s labor problem is a gender bias problem
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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Conspiracy analysts Joseph Uscinski: 21stcentury American fears trade on “invasion, white genocide”
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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Author Susan Phillips: A century-long fight for public space and recognition in Los Angeles graffiti
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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Theane Evangelis: Asking the Supreme Court what’s constitutional in fixing homelessness homeless
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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Author David Runciman: a century of surviving crises leaves democracy too confident-and vulnerable
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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Author Douglas Brinkley: JFK and America’s grand, improbable race to put men on the moon
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Citlali Fabian: using old equipment, a Oaxacan photographer records her even older culture
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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PETA's Ingrid Newkirk: doing whatever it takes to protect animals, ugly ones as well as cute ones
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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Media law prof Doreen Weisenhaus: journalism and justice in Assange and San Francisco cases
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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Trump's master fact-checker Daniel Dale: untruth and consequences
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May 28, 2019 |
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MPAA's Joan Graves : 30 years of watching three movies a day -- and assigning them parental ratings
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May 21, 2019 |
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Norman Mineta – Pearl Harbor and 9/11 as defining moment in a statesman’s life
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May 07, 2019 |
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Two documentarians introduce us to the Olympics of science fairs and its brilliant teen competitors
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta: chasing the world’s secrets to life and happiness that often elude Americans
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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Scientist Adam Rutherford: for Earth Day, the paradoxical and powerful creature called homo sapiens
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Terry Tempest Williams: the death of a red oak and a brother, the life of the “untaintable” West
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Shane Claiborne’s Bible-inspired weapons “meltdown” -- evangelizing for Jesus and against guns
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Broad Foundation chief Gerun Riley: making 21st-century philanthropy work
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Sociologist Jerome Karabel: admissions scandal shows privileged are desperate to keep it that way
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Thinking of un-borders: author Luis Alberto Urrea and the nature of the US-Mexico "border planet"
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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California water messager Niki Woodard: selling the drought after the deluge
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Tax whisperer Anne Alstott: what our tax code reveals about our national character
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Author Richard Beck: what underlies the child sexual abuse hysteria, from McMartin to Pizzagate
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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Author Barbara Ehrenreich takes on the contradictions of “successful aging”
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Author Craig Coenen on the NFL’s rise from scruffy, small-town sport to Super Bowl glory [ go, Rams]
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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Jodie Evans brings her esthetic, her politics, and her CodePink thinking to the California Arts Council
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Energy whiz Severin Borenstein: keeping the lights on and the fires out after PG&E bankruptcy
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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Historian Ellen Fitzpatrick: A Hundred-Year Hurrah for Women’s Votes
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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Mike Madrid's New Year's resolution to save the California GOP: start all over again
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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Linguist George Lakoff on why the GOP is better at messaging, and how Democrats can close that gap
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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California law makes locking up guns easier than locking up possibly dangerous gun owners
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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Historian Mario T. Garcia: pioneering LA sanctuary priest Luis Olivares is worthy of sainthood
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Harvard's Yochai Benkler: analyzing the "propaganda feedback loop" of rightwing media
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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Author Leo Braudy charts the family tree of Halloween monsters that we love to scare us
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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Starman Neil deGrasse Tyson on the overlap of astrophysics and the military
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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Susan Orlean "The Library Book," about the Los Angeles fire that made us love libraries better
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Oct 09, 2018 |
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Historian Nicolas Wey-Gomez on how Columbus' exploits inspired early human rights laws
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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Songwriter Burt Bacharach , at 90 , composes a music video plea to stop school shootings
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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Former Secretary of State John Kerry on the "disarray" created by Donald Trump, and fixes for our "broken" politics
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Superfan Eliyannah Amirah Yisrael wants you to love the Harry Potter books - and Hermione Granger - as she does
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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Immigration judge A. Ashley Tabaddor: Justice Department could make judges "prosecutors in judge's robes."
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Author Tom Lutz on how vacation season brings out Americans' inner slacker-- and inner workaholic
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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Street artist Thrashbird takes his work to the streets - and on billboards above them
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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Kids TV expert Dale Kunkel : FCC deregulation could nearly wipe out children's broadcast educational TV
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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Filmmaker Kimberly Reed: a documentary thriller on the Big Sky State vs. big "dark money"
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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Filmmaker Boots Riley: the spectacle and the power of movies versus movements
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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Political analyst Bill Schneider sizes up "America the Ungovernable"
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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International scholar Ann Kerr: working to open the world, in spite of bans and walls
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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Former immigration chief Doris Meissner: border security shouldn't mean separating families and shutting out the world
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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Lawyer Daniel P. Tokaji on whether the right to vote is a use-it-or-lose-it proposition
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Jun 19, 2018 |
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Equal Rights Amendment leader Jessica Neuwirth: not one more year's wait, let alone one hundred
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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Photojournalist Boris Yaro: the 50-year remembered pain of photographing the assassinated RFK
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Jun 05, 2018 |
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Free-range kids advocate Lenore Skenazy: Stop thinking children need to be tracked like FedEx packages.
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May 29, 2018 |
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Women's and men's rights author Warren Farrell: what underlines the "incel rebellion"?
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May 15, 2018 |
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California’s air quality chief: if Trump’s EPA gets its way, we’ll be “fumigated” again by pollution
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May 08, 2018 |
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Author Richard Powers’ novel about humans’ war against trees - and why both sides could lose
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May 01, 2018 |
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Since Jordon Dyrdahl-Roberts quit his job rather than give data to ICE, life has taken a turn
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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For "tax day," UC Berkeley’s Dacher Keltner on how tax cuts affect the rich and poor differently.
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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Anchor Judy Woodruff on the dare-to-be-boring PBS NewsHour in the era of Twitter and “fake news”
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Could Facebook throw an election? “Of course they could,” cautions Silicon Valley’s Aza Raskin.
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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Author Steven Pinker’s long, uplifting view of human progress -- even in spite of humans themselves
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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Senator Dianne Feinstein -- the assault weapons foe considers whether Donald Trump can really be the man who can carry gun control reform over the goal line.
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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Joan Baez's fabled voice has changed over her 60 years of singing, but her passion for civil rights and human rights has not.
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Feb 21, 2018 |
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LAPD commissioner Sandra Figueroa-Villa on choosing a new police chief for Los Angeles
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Feb 07, 2018 |
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Maimuna Syed: A big Trump ballot backlash means prepping more women candidates to run for office
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Jan 22, 2018 |
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Comedy writer Laurie Kilmartin’s book “Dead People Suck” also shows how much the living suck at handling death, and tells us how to do better.
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Jan 02, 2018 |
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Radio legend Art Laboe, who pioneered dedication shows and trademarked "oldies but goodies," is still riding the airwaves six nights a week
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Dec 26, 2017 |
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Freeway blogger Patrick Randall: He writes the signs that make the whole driving world see his message
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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Whatever voter ID laws require, whatever candidate you support, Voteriders and Kathleen Unger want to put the ID, and the rules, right in your hands
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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Polymath performer John Hodgman rats out the state of Maine and his own foibles and follicles in his book "Vacationland"
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Nov 21, 2017 |
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Nobel laureate Kip Thorne on the team that saw the waves that change the universe-- and a national science gap
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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Feminist author and editor Kate Harding explains the ferocious power in owning the phrase "nasty woman"
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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Former adman Andrew Essex: Why bad ads deserve to die, and what might replace them
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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Writer Salman Rushdie's new novel of a rich immigrant family sizes up New York in the age of Trump
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Oct 09, 2017 |
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Author Steven J. Ross: How Hitler's sunshine fascism almost took hold in Los Angeles
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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Author Kurt Andersen goes looking for the dangerously strange in "Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire"
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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LA's new cannabis chief Cat Packer on building the city's new legal pot business from the ground up
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Sep 12, 2017 |
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Science educator Bill Nye on the terrifying ascendancy of American 'dingbatitude'
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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Documentarian Ken Burns brings "Vietnam" to PBS, the documentary about the war Americans thought we knew, told through voices we may never have listened to
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta: In the spotlight for a new documentary, as the civil rights battles she's fought are still being waged
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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Women's rights campaigner Bernice Sandler: Evaluates the 37-word law that helped women to make the big plays in sports and in the classroom
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Aug 15, 2017 |
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California's emergency services director Mark Ghilarducci: Preparing for just about any disaster, including a nuclear one
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Aug 07, 2017 |
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Stanford professor John J. Donohue: The numbers show right-to-carry gun laws make for more violent crime, not less
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Aug 01, 2017 |
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Author Anne Helen Petersen: Women who are "Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud" are on the rise
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Jul 10, 2017 |
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Dr. Robert Pearl: His book offers a prescription to cure what ails American medicine
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Jul 03, 2017 |
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Summer of Love historian William Schnabel: It was a revolution, a happening, a turning point--and he was there for it
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Jun 13, 2017 |
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L.A. city attorney Mike Feuer: Speaking for the victim in the Dani Mathers case
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Jun 06, 2017 |
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Songwriter Jimmy Webb: All about "that" cake, "that" rain, and popular music then and now
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May 29, 2017 |
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Steve Ballmer: His new website puts all of government spending and taxing data at the click of a mouse
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May 22, 2017 |
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Author David Garrow: A new biography on how Barack Obama's political star rose
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May 15, 2017 |
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Caitlyn Jenner: No more secrets about the long journey to transgender womanhood-- and what she thinks of people who leave the toilet seat up
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May 08, 2017 |
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Urban forests expert Igor Lacan: Why city dwellers should hug trees, because they will hug us back
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May 01, 2017 |
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Filmmaker John Singleton: "L.A. Burning" documents the Los Angeles Riots 25 years later
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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Author Margaret Atwood: The author of "The Handmaid's Tale" on the book's passionate, enduring following and the upcoming Hulu series
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Apr 17, 2017 |
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Author Colleen Dunn Bates: A sixth-generation Californian on how to speak with a golden tongue in the Golden State
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Apr 10, 2017 |
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USC Annenberg dean Willow Bay: Leading a university journalism program into journalism's precarious future
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Mar 28, 2017 |
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Congressman Adam Schiff: A 9/11-style commission to investigate Russian election meddling?
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Mar 14, 2017 |
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Rachel Dolezal: Is race a function of who you think you are, or what face you see in the mirror?
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Mar 08, 2017 |
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Urban activist Mark Vallianatos: "No" on Measure S means "Yes" to a 21st-Century Los Angeles
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Mar 01, 2017 |
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Economist Jana Gallus: What are Oscars and other non-cash awards really worth?
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Feb 22, 2017 |
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Voice of America director Amanda Bennett: New audiences, new technology, and no "Trump VOA" channel
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Feb 15, 2017 |
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California attorney general Xavier Becerra: "We have a right to say to the federal government, 'Hands off.'"
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Feb 08, 2017 |
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California Senator Kamala Harris: Taking on the Trump White House in "post-11/8" America
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Feb 01, 2017 |
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Deleted tweets seeker Derek Willis: The tweets that Trump and other politicians didn't want you to read
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Jan 25, 2017 |
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First Amendment attorney Ted Boutros Jr.: Free speech and a free press in the Donald Trump era
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Jan 18, 2017 |
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Author and John Hughes fan Jason Diamond: Why Ferris Bueller is our Everyman
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Jan 11, 2017 |
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"Lore" podcast creator Aaron Mahnke: Getting to the facts about the fantastic tales humans love
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Jan 04, 2017 |
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Senator Barbara Boxer: Leaving the U.S. Senate, but not the struggle
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Dec 28, 2016 |
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Methodist minister and author Bruce Forbes' cease-fire ideas for that "War on Christmas"
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Dec 21, 2016 |
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Housing guru Raphael Bostic: What the Ghost Ship fire reveals about California’s problem with the roofs over our heads
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Dec 14, 2016 |
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Los Angeles' immigration chief Linda Lopez: Preparing the city's undocumented residents for Trump's new deportation policy
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Dec 07, 2016 |
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New supe in town: Kathryn Barger becomes one of LA's most powerful politicians
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Nov 30, 2016 |
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Law expert Hadar Aviram: Why death row doesn't work and how Charles Manson changed the California death penalty
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Nov 23, 2016 |
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Tunnels, trains and smart automobiles: Transit guru Edward Humes on spending L.A.'s new traffic billions
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Nov 16, 2016 |
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TV/filmmaker Mike Judge: The birth of "Idiocracy" and the nerds of "Silicon Valley"
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Nov 08, 2016 |
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Journalist Ja’han Jones: A website compiles obituaries that black Americans are writing about themselves, imagining being shot and killed by police
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Oct 18, 2016 |
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Playwright Joseph Rodota: Caryl Chessman‘s death row ghost as California votes on death penalty
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Oct 11, 2016 |
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Oppo researcher Alan Huffman: Digging dirt to clean up democracy, and the year of Donald Trump
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Oct 04, 2016 |
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MacArthur "don't call me genius" Fellow Josh Kun: Digging past Hollywood for LA's cultures
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Sep 28, 2016 |
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The woman who brought Vin Scully to Los Angeles: Roz Wyman is Dodger true-blue for the man who talks a Dodger blue streak
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Sep 21, 2016 |
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Caltech planet hunters Mike Brown & Konstantin Batygin: Could Planet Nine be the new Pluto?
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Sep 13, 2016 |
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Arson Detective Ed Nordskog: Finding the firestarters when California burns
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Sep 07, 2016 |
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Word wizard Edward Finegan: For LA's birthday, La La Land's tubular gifts to the world
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Aug 30, 2016 |
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Stanford linguist John Rickford: for black kids, changing neighborhoods can change language skills
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Aug 23, 2016 |
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Election fraud expert Andrew Gumbel: Donald Trump, Edgar Allan Poe, and rigging the vote
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Aug 16, 2016 |
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Author/activist Masha Gesson: Putin, Trump, and Wikileaks in this strange election year
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Aug 02, 2016 |
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Writer Ursula K. Le Guin: Imaginative fiction before Comic-Con and beyond this Earth
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Jul 19, 2016 |
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Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley: Clinton, Trump and the long, messy history of political conventions
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Jul 16, 2016 |
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Author Rebecca Traister: The all-gal "Ghostbusters," Hillary Clinton and gender stereotypes
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Jul 11, 2016 |
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Oscar winner Jessica Yu: How many people does it take to overpopulate the earth?
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Jul 05, 2016 |
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LA River thinker Matthew Gandy : Can Frank Gehry and river-lovers row together to bring the waterway back?
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Jun 28, 2016 |
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Lara Smith of the Liberal Gun Club: Background checks, ammo clips, safety nets, and the NRA
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Jun 18, 2016 |
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Actor/Producer Omar Epps: Fathers' fight to keep their families together in a new documentary for Father's Day
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Jun 14, 2016 |
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Dr. Katrina Hedberg: How Oregon's death with dignity law works, as California's version takes effect
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Jun 07, 2016 |
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Senator Barbara Boxer: The lifelong Democrat sizes up Bernie Sanders, Edward Snowden, Donald Trump-- and even sings a (very) little bit
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May 31, 2016 |
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Campaign pioneer Stuart Spencer: Ronald Reagan's first political guru takes on Donald Trump and the Republican Party for not bringing Latinos into the GOP tent
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May 24, 2016 |
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Univision's Jorge Ramos: The renowned Latino TV host whose immigration question riled Donald Trump
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May 18, 2016 |
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Director Whit Stillman: Jane Austen’s nice girls finish last in the new film and book “Love & Friendship”
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May 11, 2016 |
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RAND's Brian Michael Jenkins: Terrorists, technology, and the tradeoffs of freedom and security
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May 04, 2016 |
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Statistics mythbuster Gary Smith: Prince, David Bowie, and those funny numbers about celebrity deaths and baseball superstitions
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Apr 26, 2016 |
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Shakespeare on love, sex, racism and evil: How a dead white guy still rocks our world 400 years later
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Apr 19, 2016 |
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Alan Alda: the actor and science fan teaches modern Einsteins how to be Carl Sagans too
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Apr 05, 2016 |
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LA's Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez: Poetry the hard way, for National Poetry Month
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Mar 30, 2016 |
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Seismologist Lucy Jones: The “Earthquake Lady” retires, but still awaits California’s “Big One”
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Mar 23, 2016 |
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Patt Morrison Asks - Humor and health expert Lee Berk
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Mar 16, 2016 |
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Patt Morrison Asks - Robert O. Paxton, Professor Emeritus
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Mar 09, 2016 |
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Patt Morrison Asks - Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson
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Mar 02, 2016 |
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Patt Morrison Asks - FOX's "Bordertown" writers, Lalo Alcaraz & Gustavo Arellano
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Feb 17, 2016 |
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Patt Morrison Asks - LAUSD Superintendent Michelle King
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Feb 10, 2016 |
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Patt Morrison Asks - Dr. Bennet Omalu
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Feb 03, 2016 |
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Patt Morrison Asks - LAPD Chief Charlie Beck
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Jan 13, 2016 |
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Patt Morrison Asks - A New Podcast from the Los Angeles Times!
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Jan 07, 2016 |