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Soul Train! - 'The Hippest Trip in America'
"The Hippest Trip in America" by Nelson George.When it debuted in October 1971, seven years after the Civil Rights Act, Soul Train boldly went where no variety show had gone before, showcasing the...
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From grow-ops to greenbacks: How should California regulate and tax...
Jars full of medical marijuana are seen at Sunset Junction medical marijuana dispensary on May 11, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. ; Credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty ImagesIn 1996, California became...
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Many would-be grandparents feel the tick of “biological clock”
Grandparents Richard and Barbara Grossman help granddaughter Talia, 7, listen to an audio tour during the annual Grandparent's Day at the Museum of Modern Art June 26, 2007 in New York City. Hundreds...
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How can LA create more jobs? LA 2020 commission's new report looks at solutions
People take a holiday stroll against the background of the Los Angeles city skyline at Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area on December 31, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. ; Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty...
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'Heartbleed' bug compromises two-thirds of the internet — How to protect your...
A computer screen showing a Facebook page on May 10, 2012.; Credit: RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than half a million Web sites are vulnerable to the “Heartbleed” bug - a major flaw in the...
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Does online shopping spell an end of an era for traditional American malls?
A shop employee (C) walks past boutiques at a shopping mall in Beijing on September 11, 2011.; Credit: LIU JIN/AFP/Getty ImagesAmerican malls are palaces of consumerism, but those of us who have...
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Nation! Stephen Colbert named the new host of 'The Late Show'
Stephen Colbert hostsComedy Central's "Indecision 2008: America's Choice" at Comedy Central Studios on November 4, 2008 in New York City.; Credit: Brad Barket/Getty Images for Comedy CentralCBS...
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Is reading online affecting our ability to learn?
A fair goer tries out the textunes eBook reader app on an Apple iPad at the Leipzig Book Fair on March 15, 2012 on the fairgrounds in Leipzig, eastern Germany; Credit: ROBERT MICHAEL/AFP/Getty...
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OC Journalists Roundtable: San Onofre settlement called ‘theft’, Edison execs...
Evening sets on the San Onofre atomic power plant December 6, 2004 in northern San Diego County, south of San Clemente, California. Electric companies are reportedly saying that nuclear energy could...
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More women are becoming 'stay at home moms', but is it by choice?
18th December 1940: Evacuated mother Mrs Gwendoline Cook of Mitcham, Surrey, bathes her three children in the bathroom at Stone Hall Mansion, the country house of Lady Denman, chief of the Women's Land...
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Family rescued at sea arrives in San Diego greeted by criticism
In this handout provided by the U.S. Navy, the Kaufman family disembarks the Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigate USS Vandegrift (FFG 48) at Naval Air Station North Island April 9, 2014 in...
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Filmweek (04/11/2014): Rio 2, Draft Day, Oculus and more
Denis Leary, Jennifer Garner and Kevin Costner attend the Pepsi Super Bowl XLVIII Pregame Show at MetLife Stadium on February 2, 2014 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. ; Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty...
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Don’t underestimate your kindergartner; research shows they can learn more
Kindergarten students use a concentric circle graph to map the similarities and differences between Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King. This social studies lesson usually happens in 4th grade, says...
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‘Maximalist’: American foreign policy since World War II
‘Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama’ (Knopf 2014) the new book by Stephen Sestanovich. Sestanovich is currently a George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies at...
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'Superman' versus 'Batman'; Have you had enough of superhero films yet?
Actors Sebastian Stan and Chris Evans pose with Captain America during The NYSE Opening Bell at New York Stock Exchange on April 1, 2014 in New York City. ; Credit: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty ImagesMovie...
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DC Round-up: What’s going down on Capitol Hill?
Kathleen Sebelius testifies before the Senate Finance Committee April 2, 2009 in Washington, DC. Sebelius testified on her nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.; Credit: Win...
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Bus crash kills ten: low-income and first generation students affected by...
A California Highway Patrol Officer looks over the wreckage, Friday, April 11, 2014, where a tour bus and a FedEX truck crashed on Interstate 5 Thursday in Orland, Calif.; Credit: Rich...
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The fight of their lives: How Juan Marichal and John Roseboro turned...
John Rosengren's new book “The Fight of Their Lives” (Lyons Press, 2014). Rosengren also authored “Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes” (New American Library, 2013), which has recently come out on...
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High School’s Big Night: Are we spending too much on prom?
Juniors and seniors from John McDonogh High School celebrate at their prom June 1, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The struggling inner city school held its first prom today since Hurricane Katrina. ;...
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Does CNN’s primetime shakeup spell a new future for TV news?
General view of the CNN Journalist Award 2013 at the Künstlerhaus at Lenbachplatz on April 4, 2013 in Munich, Germany. How will CNN's decision to put more original programming into the primetime slots...
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