President Donald J. Trump was sworn into office just one month ago, but for many Americans, these few weeks have felt like years. Executive orders targeting diversity programs and marginalized groups, purges of the federal government, high-level resignations, extremist cabinet nominees, Elon Musk‘s forcible takeover of the administrative state, mass …
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When Errol Morris was a graduate student in philosophy at University of California Berkeley, he made a “pilgrimage” to the California Medical Facility prison in Vacaville. Interested in insanity pleas and murder, the future Oscar-winning documentarian was there to interview the serial killer Ed Kemper. But while at the CMF, …
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“This was my dream job and it’s just being taken away by an administration who doesn’t care about science,” cried a scientist we’ll call Alexis, in a video viewed over 1.2 million times, her voice breaking and tears running down her face. “They don’t care about our species that we’re …
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Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. And three times, they say, is a trend. So it checks out that there’s a big question on the minds of many U.S. travelers: Why are so many planes crashing? On Jan. 29, a military Blackhawk helicopter collided midair with American Eagle …
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Kash Patel is set to become the latest of President Donald Trump‘s unfit and unqualified loyalists confirmed for a leadership role in Washington, with Senate Republicans ready and willing to install the QAnon promoter and 2020 election denier as the next director of the FBI. Once he becomes head of …
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On July 2, 2021, 22-year-old Gabby Petito and her 23-year-old boyfriend Brian Laundrie set out from Long Island, New York on a two-month road trip through the country’s vast National Parks. Petito intended for the trip to launch her “van life” YouTube page, where she would share vlogs of their …
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T he first thing you see when you walk into the foyer of Monica Lewinsky’s apartment is a neon-pink sign that reads “Always Believe That Something Wonderful Is Going to Happen.” Her Los Angeles home is sunny and bright, with books lining the shelves, smiling snapshots of family and friends, …
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M y wife — as usual — understood the situation before I did. The night before, Monday, Jan. 6, we’d both been awoken by the wind. Hundred-year-old pine branches snapping off like matchsticks. Iron lawn furniture tumbling across the yard. Our dog, shaking, tried to crawl under our pillows. “This …
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T he sun rose over Los Angeles County at 6:59 a.m. on Jan. 7 with many of its residents already on high alert. In Malibu, David Hertz had spent most of the night prowling around Xanabu, his aptly named 150-acre property nestled four miles above the Pacific Coast Highway. Hertz …
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W e’re in serious trouble. That’s the message I saw written in the ashes of Los Angeles. And by “we,” I mean every human on this planet, rich or poor, young or old, Black or white or brown. In L.A., an $83 million house with 18 bedrooms and six bathrooms …
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