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As of Monday evening, all Planned Parenthood affiliates officially withdrew from the federal aid program for family planning because of a new, ludicrous requirement.
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Trump’s go-it-alone approach in dealing with China is imposing a high and growing cost on the American economy and could ultimately threaten global prosperity. It’s hard to see an early resolution to the dispute.
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With his signature on AB 392, the bill that ups California’s police use-of-force standard, Gov. Gavin Newsom puts the state in the vanguard of modest, sensible yet important reform.
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Trump’s ‘religious freedom’ rule could foster discrimination
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Millennials’ deep-seated inclusivity makes President Trump’s sympathy for a whiter America a dubious reelection tactic.
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Healthcare could win or lose the presidential election for the Democrats, so candidates need to deal head-on with voter concern about reform.
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Dear boss: Once again you have hit upon the smartest, most intuitive idea of the modern age — buying Greenland!
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A new national poll found that nearly two-thirds of those surveyed agreed that free trade was good for the country. All it takes is a few tariffs and a trade war to change minds.
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Trump’s campaign rally Thursday was filled with the usual boasts, lies, shaded truths and flip-flops, proving once again that only a fool would believe a word this president says.
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Trump’s Department of Labor is preparing to release a proposed rule that would allow federal contractors to discriminate against employees on the basis of race, gender and sexual orientations for religious reasons.
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California joined 21 other states in suing over regulatory rollbacks governing power plants, which is good, but more needs to be done by all of us.
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The president’s decision to defuse part of the economic bomb he himself planted is good for the global economy, and great for U.S. retailers.
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Trump’s go-it-alone approach in dealing with China is imposing a high and growing cost on the American economy and could ultimately threaten global prosperity. It’s hard to see an early resolution to the dispute.
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Perpetrators of mass shootings have a lot in common. Understanding that could help prevent future violence.
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With his signature on AB 392, the bill that ups California’s police use-of-force standard, Gov. Gavin Newsom puts the state in the vanguard of modest, sensible yet important reform.
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A young widow who lost her husband to cancer drowns in grief and medical debt. Now she is a cancer doctor who sees her own tragedy play out in other patients.
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The rate of death by suicide is far higher in the nation’s jails and prisons than in the general population, and Alabama is at the heart of the crisis.
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A persistent myth stands in the way of ending the war in Afghanistan — if the Taliban takes over the country, Al Qaeda could reestablish a presence there, making it easier for the terrorist group to plot attacks on the United States.
Plastic packaging is the easy choice for restaurants. A new law would require a shift to products better for the environment.
Buprenorphine help me to recover from heroin addiction. Millions of others don’t have access to this live-saving treatment.
Simple nudges can help would-be students get the financial aid they deserve and enroll in college.
If you think President Trump doesn’t apologize, think again.
Learning I was donor-conceived changed the story about why I was different from my family. Anonymous egg and sperm donation should be outlawed in the U.S.
FDR let a thousand refugees into the U.S. at the height of WWII before closing the borders. Labeled enemy aliens, they were confined in Fort Ontario, N.Y.
Jimi Hendrix riffed on the national anthem; we sang “Kumbaya.” Everyone got coated in mud.
People who contract Ebola are three to four times less likely to die from it if they are treated in a high-income country such as the United States rather than in places like Congo or western Africa.
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A six-part series from the editorial board challenging NIMBYs and their City Hall enablers who balk at building new housing while a humanitarian crisis unfolds in our streets.
It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters.
Ideas and commentary on building a livable, sustainable Los Angeles.
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Why L.A. needs scientist Loraine Lundquist on the city council
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The president is reportedly developing an executive order that would have two federal agencies scrutinize how Facebook, Twitter and other major social media networks moderate users’ posts and enforce their terms of service. It’s galling and hypocritical.
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Public high schools in California should teach ethnic studies. But a draft of the model curriculum the state is developing carries more than a whiff of anti-Jewish bias.
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I’m a member of Equinox and an ardent critic of Trump. Do I quit Equinox?
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No matter what Juul says, it has created the vaping epidemic among teens and adolescents by marketing to them and downplaying the risk of nicotine addiction.
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Alt-right publications advocating white supremacy, misogyny and anti-Semitism are drawing ever larger audiences.
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Partnerships between labor and the environmental movement in California could be models for rebuilding worker power elsewhere in the nation.
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The Social Security 2100 Act being considered in the House would strengthen the fund and expand benefits. And it would cost workers earning $50,000 a year an annual increase of only 50 cents a week.
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The U.S., which has long supported democracy movements worldwide, is being weak on Hong Kong. That’s alarming and counter to our national interest.
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People who voted for Sheriff Alex Villanueva express regret over their choice.
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Yeah, Trump appears not to know how to use the word “sorry.” But gloating over his misuse of language is the kind of behavior that ensures his reelection.
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The L.A. Times Editorial Board doesn’t advance the cause of reasoned discourse by implying that the Trump administration is racist when it comes to immigration.
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Trump’s plan to shift top BLM jobs west risks robbing the agency of experienced policymakers and institutional knowledge — which may be the intent.
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The latest proposal for how to grade Los Angeles Unfied public schools is way too simplistic
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It’s no wonder that the county Democratic Party and others who endorsed Villanueva now have buyer’s remorse.
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Ken Cuccinelli displayed deep ignorance of American history, not to mention poetry, when he said the poem affixed to the Statue of Liberty referred only to those who could “stand on their own two feet.”
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