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D.J. Waldie

D. J. Waldie (2017)

D. J. Waldie is the author of "Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir" and "Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles," among other books about the social history of Southern California. He is a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times.

D. J. Waldie (2017)
How the System Works
The city hall system survives by corrupting the relationship between those who govern and those who elect them.
City Nature, Nature's City
We sometimes think that Nature has fallen back from our advance, a retreat from which there can be no return.
The deal
The stadium deal will be voted on, and no one - including council members - will have the answers Angeleños deserve.
A Boy's Fourth of July
I'll walk around to a fireworks stand and buy a box of overpriced gunpowder mixed with aluminum dust and other colorants.
When the Wheels Slow
When the 405 shuts down in July, it's not going to be 'carpocalypse' or 'carmageddon'.
Reflecting on complexity
We don't yet know how to see Los Angeles and far less how to define it.
Home, Sweet Home
Where should we live? What should we call home?
Gearing Up or Grinding Down?
Believing that the future will be less bleak depends on where you are in the county's economy.
Parsing the Times
The Los AngelesTimes believes AEG's downtown football stadium is a very good idea, but its defense doesn't stand up to close reading.
Images of the city
Rick Caruso - mayoral candidate in waiting - imagines an entertaining Los Angeles, but a city of "customers" will have to pay.
Infinite separate houses
Suburban Los Angeles, despite the planners and the politicians, will always be someone's future.
Another deadline for AEG's stadium
It's not about us. It's about the business of football.
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