Paul Dawson

After 15 months of the pandemic, the Golden State is no longer requiring capacity limits, masks, or social distancing in most places.

The former Congress member talks to Robert Scheer about his life and the dramatic events surrounding his political rise, as told in his new book “The Division of Light and Power.”

With the state’s color-coded reopening tiers riding off into the sunset, there’s no more social distancing, and masks in almost every indoor situation are being retired.

Domenico Ingenito speaks about his book, “Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry.”

Joan Silber writes about life's strange surprises in her new book, “Secrets of Happiness."

The decision to have a child is quite possibly the most daunting and consequential any of us can make.

WE RISE is an initiative from the LA County Department of Mental Health that features 21 art experiences focusing on connection.

Trees and forests have long been a source of inspiration for art and poetry.

Biographer Brad Gooch reveals that he traveled 2500 miles to trace Rumi's footsteps, learned Persian and spent eight years to write “Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love.”