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We erase more than we landmark. What’s left, however, like Raymond Chandler’s Drexel Avnue house, is so close to us in time and place, we can still add to the story.
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The mounting budget deficit poses a political quandary for Democrats and an economic challenge for the nation. -
Anti-vaccination groups have publicly disavowed the man who shoved Sen. Richard Pan. But these groups have been casually deploying violent imagery for years. What did they think would happen?
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In the 1970s, teens read three times as many books as they do today. A high school teacher laments the rise of the cellphone and the death of reading.
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The 9th Circuit court ruling striking down anti-camping ordinances will harm the very people it purports to protect.
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Central banks don’t compete in a race to the bottom.
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The administration is weighing an executive action that would allow states and local government to refuse to resettle refugees in their jurisdictions.
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Enjoy the “Hamlet” and pastry jokes. But remember that Trump’s next ridiculous foreign policy decision might not be a laughing matter.
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The clean-car standard is one of the federal government’s most important environmental and public health policies.
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Like it or not, immigrant detainees are on American soil. It endangers the health of everyone, no matter their legal status, to allow a flu to thrive.
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“Swallow a Little Bit for Biden” isn’t anyone’s idea of a catchy campaign slogan.
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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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When I came to the U.S. from China as a student, my thinking had been shaped by Chinese propaganda.
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The mounting budget deficit poses a political quandary for Democrats and an economic challenge for the nation.
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Central banks don’t compete in a race to the bottom.
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Everybody’s heard of the My Lai massacre — March 16, 1968, 50 years ago today — but not many know about the man who stopped it: Hugh Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot.
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Anti-vaccination groups have publicly disavowed the man who shoved Sen. Richard Pan. But these groups have been casually deploying violent imagery for years. What did they think would happen?
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Guatemalans have been battered by corruption, narco violence and a changing climate that has hammered crops.
When President Trump calls Democratic Jews disloyal, he invokes a lethal history and betrays an American ideal.
Exploiting workers is not unique to Chinese companies like the one depicted in “Chinese Factory,” and some are model employers.
Illegitimacy only emboldens the followers of a charismatic leader. It worked for Epstein and it’s working for autocrats around the globe.
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.
Millennials’ deep-seated inclusivity makes President Trump’s sympathy for a whiter America a dubious reelection tactic.
Healthcare could win or lose the presidential election for the Democrats, so candidates need to deal head-on with voter concern about reform.
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.
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.
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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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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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Plastic packaging is the easy choice for restaurants. A new law would require a shift to products better for the environment.
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Buprenorphine help me to recover from heroin addiction. Millions of others don’t have access to this live-saving treatment.
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Simple nudges can help would-be students get the financial aid they deserve and enroll in college.
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If you think President Trump doesn’t apologize, think again.
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Silicon Beach tech entrepreneurs may get a thrill out of flying their own planes, but the people on the ground have different reactions.
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It’s insulting to compare this administration’s response to Central American refugees to FDR’s complete failure to help European Jews before World War II.
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Looking at students’ writing samples and random inspections are better ways to evaluate schools than with standardized tests.
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A Mexican restaurant in an affluent area can afford to eliminate most plastic, but what about those that serve more working-class customers?
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Such shady behavior only worsens the perception that land-use decisions in Los Angeles City Hall are made on the basis of money, influence and connections.
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The Trump administration’s plan to imprison migrant families as a way to scare off would-be asylum-seekers runs counter to basic notions of decency
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A California bill could limit the local damage caused by U.S. gutting of the Endangered Species Act. So what are we waiting for?
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Scandals over lavish spending, an internal rebellion and the ouster of a powerful lobbyist have left the NRA reeling, which is a good thing for those who believe in common sense gun laws.
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