Does Fresno Mean Feeding Tube?

How To Figure Out If You Live In a Place With Good End-of-Life Care

 

In some parts of California, you’re likely to have all sorts of medical treatments at the end of your life and die in a hospital. In other parts of California, you’re likelier to die at home with less intervention. Such disparities can be found across the country, and they are not indicative, as a rule, of patient preferences. They’re indicative of differences in mindsets and habits among healthcare providers. For most of us, “good” end-of-life care means the kind of care you want, but it can be hard to know …

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Democracy’s Diversity Problem

Does Diversity Make Democratic Transition Harder—Or Simply More Worthwhile?

 

Diversity is a strength of American democracy, or so the country’s political leaders like to proclaim. In the next breath, though, they’ll complain about how the country’s diverse array of …

Imagine the Next Benihana

Five Angelenos Go On A Choose-Your-Own Restaurant Adventure

 

Los Angeles has given the world In-N-Out Burger, The Cheesecake Factory, California Pizza Kitchen, and, most recently, the Umami phenomenon. L.A.-based chef Sang Yoon has already given us Father’s Office …

Private College Stoked, Public College Broke

Can Our Public Universities Still Compete With Rich Private Ones?

 

We’ve long been proud of our great public universities in the United States. Historically, they’ve been both superb and inexpensive. The University of California system has long represented a pinnacle …

Is Downtown Finally Looking Up?

What Would It Take For Los Angeles To Have a Downtown That’s Considered World-Class?

 

Los Angeles, a place of constant reinvention, is always reinventing its downtown. For decades, those reinventions, and various big dreams for the city center, have been dashed. But the past …

Theft Is In the Eye Of the Beholder

When Is It OK For Someone in Your Field To ‘Steal’ an Idea?

 

Did Samsung violate Apple’s intellectual property rights by making a phone with a pinchable screen? Should one-click online ordering be an idea owned by one corporation? Should the day come …