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Op-Ed: Medical bias can be deadly. Our research found a way to curb it

Bias leads to medical maltreatment of women and people of color, but a ‘group chat’ for doctors can help.

Op-Ed: What virtual reality and artificial intelligence will mean for sex, love and intimacy
Op-Ed: Payouts for whistleblowers aren’t enough. Workers need to know they can make a difference
Editorial: Please Supreme Court, do not take abortion rights away from any women, anywhere
Editorial: Let’s build a better future for P-99 and L.A.’s other mountain lions
Op-Ed: Why didn’t we talk about race in high school?

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Op-Ed: 1 in 4 adults are estranged from family and paying a psychological price
Editorial: Colleges’ overreliance on adjunct faculty is bad for students, instructors and academic freedom
Op-Ed: What virtual reality and artificial intelligence will mean for sex, love and intimacy
Granderson: Who else has been terrorized and killed by police where Ahmaud Arbery was murdered?
Op-Ed: Why didn’t we talk about race in high school?

Hear Me Out: Video letters

Video letter: Everyone hates leaf blowers. We have laws banning them. So why are they everywhere?

Introducing ‘Hear Me Out,’ a video series featuring Times letter writers
Video: Want to get your letter in the L.A Times? Here are some tips
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Contributor Voices

A woman receives a coronavirus vaccination at the Kololo airstrip in Kampala, Uganda, Monday, May 31, 2021. Africa is especially vulnerable. As virus cases surge in the world's poorest countries, a sense of dread is growing among millions of the unvaccinated, especially those who toil in the informal, off-the-books economy, live hand-to-mouth and pay cash in health emergencies. (AP Photo/Nicholas Bamulanzeki)

Opinion

Second Opinion: What it will take to keep the next global pandemic at bay

More than 7 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, but the huge discrepancy of access among nations is a devastating failure.

Hanukkah menorahs for Tod Goldberg op-ed on Saturday, November 27, 2021. (Wendy Duren)

Op-Ed: This Hanukkah, a broken menorah and a memory that may not exist

LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 14: UCLA Senior student Leif Mollo, left, joins students, staff and nearby residents as they cast their ballots at UCLA Ackerman Union as polls were open Tuesday for Californians to decide whether Gov. Gavin Newsom should be removed from office and, if so, who should replace him in a recall election. UCLA on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times).

Op-Ed: Gen Z students seem to dislike both political parties. What will make them change their minds?

BRUNSWICK, GA - NOVEMBER 18: Demonstrators march near the Glynn County Courthouse after the adjournment of daily court proceedings in the trial for the killers of Ahmaud Arbery on November 18, 2021 in Brunswick, Georgia. Greg McMichael, his son Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan are charged with the February, 2020 slaying of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Op-Ed: The non-victory victory in the Ahmaud Arbery case

LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 12, 2020 - - Paloma Vergara loads up a community refrigerator with items donated by Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle to the Reach 4 The Top L.A. Mid City Fridge in Los Angeles on July 12, 2020. Vergara works with Reach 4 The Top which provides transitional housing at 5044 West 21st Street. The community refrigerator is available 24 hours a day at the location. Community fridges are popping up all over Los Angeles as part of a mutual aid project to feed people in need during the coronavirus pandemic. The fridges are painted with murals and bright colors, and are stocked with food inside donated by people from the community, local food banks and restaurants. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Op-Ed: Latino communities can redefine American generosity

Guerrero: Don’t shield U.S. gun makers from liability for Mexico’s gun violence

Nicholas Goldberg: Are the school districts that “defunded the police” coming to regret it already?

Op-Ed: California may ban new oil wells near homes. Let’s eliminate the existing problem while we’re at it

Op-Ed: What gratitude looks like now

Op-Ed

Column: Let’s talk turkey (not politics)
Op-Ed: Justice is done for Ahmaud Arbery, but a legacy of racial injustice can’t be answered in one verdict
Op-Ed: To address past injustices against Native people, we must move beyond renaming holidays
Op-Ed: Continuing Trump’s pretext to block asylum claims, Biden defies the law and good politics

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor: Critical race theory’s loudmouth critics are making teachers’ jobs impossible
Letters to the Editor: If we made more stuff in the U.S., would we even have a supply crisis?
Letters to the Editor: If you want ‘one nation under one God,’ chances are it won’t be your religion
Letters to the Editor: Fix this sidewalk, but not that one? L.A.'s priorities are as broken as its walkways

Editorials

Editorial: California got rid of gerrymandering — don’t cave now
Editorial: After all the sacrifices in 2020, a little Thanksgiving joy in 2021
Opinion: Who didn’t feel like Arbery’s father when he uttered his outburst over the verdicts?
Justice for Arbery, at last

Op-Ed Video

Video Op-Ed: A trans athlete’s guide to media coverage of trans athletes

Rook Campbell (he/him, they/them) is a swimmer and a trans guy.

Op-Ed: A trans athlete’s guide to writing about trans athletes
Here’s a handy rule of thumb for sports journalists: Let people describe themselves.

Projects

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The pandemic opened possibilities. Let’s embrace them.
Our reckoning with racism
As the country grapples with the role of systemic racism, The Times has committed to examining its past.
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Ideas and commentary on building a livable, sustainable Los Angeles.
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More Opinion

Letters to the Editor: Do conservative pundits finally quitting Fox News deserve praise?
Letters to the Editor: Nuclear energy may not emit carbon, but it isn’t ‘clean’
Letters to the Editor: If counties want to send COVID patients to L.A., they need to boost vaccination
Readers give thanks: If you want inspiration on Thanksgiving, you’ve found it
Letters to the Editor: Why Black Americans never took the Ahmaud Arbery guilty verdict for granted
Editorial: Are Americans the Thanksgiving dinner guests, or the hosts? Both, of course
Letters to the Editor: ‘Woke’ Catholics are too busy doing God’s work to worry about José Gomez
Granderson: Why ‘King Richard’ brought me to tears
Editorial: Why a fossilized gas station is the perfect symbol for California’s climate fight
LA Times Today: Book banning in 2021? Author’s book removed from school shelves
Editorial: Another COVID Thanksgiving — sigh
Editorial: L.A. tripped over its duty to fix the city’s broken sidewalks