WEDNESDAY, 29 AUGUST 2018

Focus on Race and Class at L.A.’s Left Coast Forum
Eric A. Gordon: This second year of this city’s Left Coast Forum kept coming around to the themes of race and class—in plenary sessions, breakout panels, in the cultural offerings, and in the lively display area where left activists of all stripes hosted booths promoting their points of view and products.
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4 Reasons Why Los Angeles’ Upcoming Public Banking Ballot Initiative Is a Huge Deal
Phoenix Goodman: If Los Angeles succeeds in creating a municipal public bank, it will quite literally be history in the making, as it will be the first of its kind in the country.
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Does the GOP Have a Racist Cut-Off Point?
Irene Monroe: If a tape of Trump using the N-word appears, a tape that Omarosa Manigault Newman says exists, will the GOP have a cutoff point? What stance will the Republican Party take?
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China’s Not-So-Secret Plan to Invade Taiwan
Jack Gil: Faith in institutions and agreements that the United States has historically supported and committed to are now being called into question, pushing other powers to fill the vacuum.
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