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The House promises to vote on payback for African Americans. The Senate will have to be shamed into action.
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Americans should seek to verbally spar with people whose beliefs differ from their own. It will help them decide whether their beliefs hold true.
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Raising the Clotilda from the bottom of the Mobile River and preserving it should be a national priority.
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A black market for the totoaba fish is causing a marine mammal called the vaquita to vanish in the Sea of Cortez.
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Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 has emboldened all sorts of improbable candidates to think they have a chance to win in 2020. This is not healthy.
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There’s a good argument for treating repeat criminals differently than first-timers. But tacking on more time in multiple ways, all at the same time, was overkill.
Enter the Fray
Top Senate Democrats signal a willingness to end all filibusters if they reclaim the majority. It doesn’t take a psychic to see why they’d regret that decision.
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A freak reusable straw accident is a tragedy but not a reason to back away from efforts to reduce disposable plastic.
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The article of impeachment offered by Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) is not the one pro-impeachment Democrats have been waiting for.
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John Paul Stevens joined the Supreme Court in a less-ideological era
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To win reelection, Trump needs to make Democrats look more radical than he is.
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President Trump’s Twitter tantrum calling for four female Democratic members of Congress to “go back” to the “crime-infested places from which they came” was ugly and ill-founded.
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Americans should seek to verbally spar with people whose beliefs differ from their own. It will help them decide whether their beliefs hold true.
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President Trump’s Twitter feed is a repugnant place, and no one would want the thankless task of having to weed through all his bitter, bigoted ramblings to determine which are the most offensive.
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Reining in federal spending is no longer on the table now that there’s a Republican in the White House.
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When I arrived at USC 11 years ago as dean of religious life, my pastoral conversations with students mostly focused on their quests for meaning and purpose.
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The House promises to vote on payback for African Americans. The Senate will have to be shamed into action.
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No matter what Trump says, he isn’t our ‘favorite all time president.’
Uber has worsened traffic. Airbnb the housing crisis. What unintended consequences will result from allowing scooters to monetize sidewalks and public spaces?
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I’m a pediatrician, yet I was ignorant about signs of gender dysphoria, including in my own daughter.
Trump is tripling down on racism and xenophobia as a path to remaining in the White House, and having his policy initiatives blocked or his Twitter rants attacked is at worst irrelevant and possibly quite helpful.
Donald Trump can’t take being called out, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Pelosi can.
Broader sex trafficking laws are being used against people like Jeffrey Epstein, but their elasticity may also pose problems.
Education cultivates resiliency in migrant kids. Its lack in detention centers is one more way Trump is ignoring the law.
Homeless people should have a legal right to shelter and a legal obligation to utilize it.
Whereas L.A. has focused (unsuccessfully) on trying to create long-term affordable housing, New York has focused on creating temporary shelters.
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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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In backing down from his plan to include a question about U.S. citizenship on next year’s census form, President Trump on Thursday gave credence to the claims of critics that his administration had an ulterior — and partisan — motive in pressing for inclusion of the question.
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The 2020 election is shaping up to be yet another referendum on healthcare, thanks to a long-shot lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act that has somehow stayed alive in the courts.
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If you’ve paid any attention at all to politics in recent years, you’ve probably heard this expression at least once or twice: “We’ve always had differences of opinions, but back in the old days, at least we all operated off the same set of facts.”
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A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that President Trump violated the 1st Amendment by blocking some critics from access to his Twitter feed.
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David Runciman, a politics and history professor at Cambridge University, talks about his book “How Democracy Ends”.
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Trump’s latest asylum ban will make problems at the border worse and encourage people entering the country illegally to hide.
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On a good day, I’m almost fluent in Chinese.
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During the 2008 presidential campaign, John McCain famously corrected a supporter who insisted Obama was an “Arab.” Why can’t Trump do something similar?
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Trump gives his critics a lot to be angry about, but their objections boil down to this: He is the worst possible representative of this country.
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If our system for handling asylum seekers is overwhelmed, the solution is to invest in it, not shut out entire categories of migrants.
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The former top official who resigned after allegedly receiving an unethical order from Villanueva’s people should be promoted to sheriff.
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It has been a half-century since we first went to the moon. The feeling today is a combination of pride and anxiety, patriotism and ambivalence.
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Loraine Lundquist has outlined a vision for a more inclusive, sustainable Los Angeles.
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The national minimum wage is way too low, but don’t overlook the trade-offs of raising it.
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MS-13 has deep roots in both El Salvador and Los Angeles. The two places have a troubling link that can’t be severed by walls or deportations.
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