California
J.D. Vance once called Trump a ‘fraud,’ ‘a moral disaster’ and ‘cultural heroin.’ He flipped 180 degrees at the Republican National Convention when Trump chose him as running mate.
July 21, 2024
World & Nation
European Parliament elections yield victory for centrists, but in France, far-right landslide triggers snap parliamentary elections.
June 10, 2024
Watch L.A.
June 14, 2024
Business
Steve Barajas is a mechanical engineer on NASA-JPL’s Europa Clipper 2024, the mission looking for an ocean beneath the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa.
Feb. 26, 2024
Science & Medicine
Searching for the ingredients for life on Europa will be a challenge for NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Surviving the high radiation of the icy moon will be even harder.
Oct. 18, 2023
Has this famously liberal city moved too far right to embrace an old-school progressive for mayor?
Sept. 19, 2024
Letters to the Editor
A marine ecologist says we know surprisingly little about our own oceans, so spending $5 billion to explore a distant moon’s sea seems like a case of warped priorities.
Oct. 22, 2023
Grupo Firme’s seven record-breaking L.A. concerts in 2021 highlight Southern California’s influential place in the globally ascending música Mexicana genre.
Television
After a period of pandemic experimentation, distributors hope streaming and theatrical can achieve the previously unthinkable: peaceful coexistence.
June 16, 2023
Opinion
The former president’s reliance on superlatives goes largely unmentioned. But it follows a style used by fascists and despots throughout history.