CODEPINK is a feminist grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect our tax dollars into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming programs.

I had this politics professor who used to say that all great American literature is at heart about reverence for the past and contempt for the present — that things were getting worse. It’s a complicated statement,

Students took the mic this week as hosts of a public forum with candidates running for the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board in the upcoming November election. The forum, held by the Samohi Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Executive Board and facilitated by three Samohi students on Tuesday night,

(The House is not the problem.) Our City Council? Straight F-s. No make-up test, no summer school, no promotion to the next grade. They must all be sent home. They have been very bad. While Donald Trump is killing us,

Kristin McCowan, a native Santa Monican, has been appointed to the City Council for four months to fill the vacancy created when Greg Morena resigned last month. McCowan is the only Black woman on the council and her appointment gives women a 4 – 3 majority on the council for the first time in the city’s history.