Top reads
Pledging to name a Black woman to the Senate or as a running mate is so much less than they’ve earned.
Latest
Contributor Voices
The amendment’s Section 3 bars officials who betray the government from holding office again. Trying to keep the elected president out of office by force counts by any standard.
Most Read
A cure for the common opinion
Get thought-provoking perspectives with our weekly newsletter.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
Short Docs
Watch this new film in the Short Docs series. See how Helen Pashgian, a groundbreaking artist of the Light and Space movement, creates her extraordinary master works.
Columnists
Also: Jonah Goldberg and Harry Litman
Featured
Documentaries showing the world through a West Coast perspective.
A video series based on letters sent by readers of the Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles City Hall has been rocked by scandal after scandal, but now there’s momentum to reform city government.
Los Angeles County transitions to a new way of administering pre-arraignment justice that doesn’t use cash bail for most crimes.
Many California Democrats desperately wanted her to enter the gubernatorial recall race 20 years ago, just in case the voters ousted Gov. Gray Davis. I watched as she wrestled with the decision, and ultimately made the right choice.
California has lost its trailblazing senior senator, one of the rare congressional members who still believed in cordiality and cooperation.
Defendants are just as likely to appear for their court hearings and less likely to be arrested while awaiting trial in jurisdictions that limited money bail, studies show.
