Native mountain lions risk their lives to cross the U.S. 101 freeway. A wildlife crossing, in the form of a bridge, could save them.
Features
The Class of COVID
The COVID-19 crisis has revealed deep flaws in the nation’s education systems. Have we learned anything that will lead to ways to improve K-12 education?
The Dogs That Save Us
The human-dog lovefest may be 15,000 years old, and the pandemic has given it a shot in the arm. Are they our most faithful friends, or are we theirs?
Stage Rights
In 1963, James Baldwin masterminded a tense nighttime meeting with Robert F. Kennedy to break down the Kennedy administration’s reluctance to act on civil rights. Baldwin’s summit changed RFK forever after.
Crowning Achievement
Stephanie Bell’s senior film project turns the spotlight on Black women’s natural hairstyles and race-based hair discrimination.
Poll Watching
Polls that seemed terribly inaccurate in the 2016 presidential election left half the country feeling they’d burned their hands on the stove. Should we doubt polling reports this year? Three LMU experts say probably not.
California’s Catholic Browns
Pat and Jerry Brown — father and son — together governed California for a span totaling nearly a quarter century with their Catholic culture’s influence never far from the foreground.
Troubling Calm
In the COVID-19 era, what was has changed, what is now seems uncertain, but will be may be ours to decide. L.A. writer Lynell George ’84 writes about life during a pandemic.
Shady Park
Griffith Park was a Christmas present to Los Angeles, generously given by a man who later spent two years in San Quentin for shooting his wife as she knelt before him.