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Marty Kaplan

Marty Kaplan

Marty Kaplan holds the Norman Lear Chair at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. His Jewish Journal columns have won First Place in the Southern California Journalism Awards six times in the past six years. Reach him at martyk@jewishjournal.com

For whom the polls toll

The horserace polls dominating today’s political news are worse than misleading – they’re bad for democracy.

The enemy of my enemy is my candidate

“End this notion that the enemy is the other party. End this notion that it is naïve to think we can speak well of the other party. What is naïve is to think it is remotely possible to govern this country unless we can.”

Whose 5776?

Until I graduated from college, I hadn’t traveled farther than a few hundred miles from home.

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