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Dependence on tech industries can’t help the state recover lower-wage job losses or reduce the entrenched inequality that makes California susceptible to rolling catastrophes.
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Well before Operation Warp Speed delivers COVID-19 vaccines en masse, we need to be prepared to distribute them effectively. Here’s how we should do it.
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A blue-state Democrat and a red-state Republican discuss the week in politics.
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An acre in the suburbs is not a farm of course, laid out within earshot of city hall and the state highway. Yet garden work can be farm work.
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Our vigilance toward reopening malls amid COVID-19 should be accompanied by a willingness to adapt museums to have visitors again as well.
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It’s not too late for the U.S. to make up for it’s failure on coronavirus testing. That’s the only way to safely reopen schools, churches and businesses before there’s a vaccine that’s widely available.
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It’s hard to tell whether President Trump simply doesn’t understand how tariffs work or if he just keeps repeating a lie about them.
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Gathering signatures for petitions has got to be a frustrating gig during a year when it’s dangerous to get within spitting distance of strangers.
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A Times reporter waited less than 15 minutes to vote in suburban Atlanta this week. Many other Georgians won’t be so lucky, but say they are determined to vote no matter how long it takes.
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The pope’s comments on same-sex couples are a signal, not a change in doctrine.
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Tens of millions of struggling Americans need the financial help that another stimulus bill from Congress would provide.
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Lawyers tell a federal judge they still haven’t found parents of 545 migrant children the Trump administration separated from their families three years ago.
Here are the Los Angeles Times’ editorial board endorsements for president, California ballot measures and more.
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Here are the Los Angeles Times’ editorial board endorsements for president, California ballot measures and more.
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Dependence on tech industries can’t help the state recover lower-wage job losses or reduce the entrenched inequality that makes California susceptible to rolling catastrophes.
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A blue-state Democrat and a red-state Republican discuss the week in politics.
Trump’s remarks about Lincoln at the debate fit a pattern of U.S. leaders alluding to the Civil War and 16th president to navigate turbulent times.
The Constitution forbids Trump from excluding undocumented immigrants in determining representation in the House.
Polarized Christians and the end of Protestant hegemony have ushered Catholics onto the Supreme Court.
The best response to Trump’s bleating is not to jab back but to treat him as if he were a child or a drunk — detach from the ego battles, smile and look away in disbelief.
As a devout Catholic, does the Supreme Court nominee have any thoughts on Pope Francis’ statement in defense of civil unions?
The family of a lifelong Democrat has been imploring him not to support Kamala Harris. They see him as a bad-luck charm.
It was disturbing to hear her describe climate change as ‘a very contentious matter of public debate’ rather than as scientifically established fact.
Although indiscriminate tax increases are a bad idea, overturning the excesses of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act could actually stimulate our economy, while improving tax policy.
The Justice Department claims that when the president calls his accuser a liar, it’s official business.
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As the country grapples with the role of systemic racism, The Times has committed to examining its past.
All presidential elections are uniquely consequential, but a good case can be made that the next one is the most important of our lives. The time has come to undo the great mistake of 2016 and drive Trump out of office at the ballot box.
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Do you understand the causes and effects of climate change? Here is what you can do to help.
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Ideas and commentary on building a livable, sustainable Los Angeles.
A six-part series from the editorial board on the humanitarian crisis unfolds in our streets.
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In 1964, white Californians overwhelmingly voted to make segregation a part of the state’s Constitution with the passage of Prop 14.
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If Twitter’s and Facebook’s responses to the N.Y. Post’s Hunter Biden story qualify as illegal contributions, other companies break the law constantly.
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Dianne Feinstein stood up to a group of preteen climate activists with more verve and vitriol than she brought to the Amy Coney Barrett hearings.
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Social media platforms took far too long to start enforcing their rules against campaign-related content and major political figures.
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As one of the most unassuming side effects of the coronavirus, the U.S., for the first time in its history, set up a system of universal healthcare.
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When half of life is lived on Zoom, it was inevitable that someone, somewhere would be caught self-pleasuring.
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Sometimes overlapping talk isn’t an interruption. And sometimes an interruption is a verbal assault.
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We now have a kind of partisanship based on imperviousness to evidence and indifference to facts that energizes the wildest of conspiratorial claims.
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A letter writer accused Democrats of trying to overturn the 2016 election. Here is why that’s wrong on so many levels.
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It may not appeal to the left, but the kind of sober, reasoned thinking emphasized by the Catholic Church propels our legal process.
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Architects are already designing and building all-electric structures. Cities like Los Angeles should not wait for state mandates before acting.
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The 81-year-old college professor who harangues maskless walkers and praises people whose faces are covered earns mostly praise from our readers.
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The Aliso Canyon leak was an environmental disaster. It forced local and state officials to reckon with the risks and consequences of relying on fossil fuels.
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In Thursday’s second and final presidential debate, President Trump said nothing to persuade those who haven’t made up their minds that he deserves a second term.
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Mayor Garcetti said he reformed the city’s sexual harassment reporting system. But what happened when his close aide was accused of sexual harassment?
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Trump’s failure to follow the rules has imperiled BLM head William Perry Pendley’s expansion of mining and drilling access to federal lands.
