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We need to end a culture of obstetric racism that has resulted in a maternal mortality rate for Black women that is around three times that of white women.
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Sixty years ago, a preteen white girl in Alabama tended to Freedom Riders after their bus was firebombed. Her life would never be the same.
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The state took the high road reforming its redistricting process. But now it will have one fewer tool in the battle to keep Democrats in power.
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Eli Broad envisioned Grand Avenue as DTLA’s Champs-Élysées. Instead it may be a memorial to an urbanism of big gestures that is passing into history.
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Nonfungible tokens are a dressed-up species of bookkeeping. But what art needs is less auditing and more ecstasy.
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Narendra Modi’s suppression of dissent has brought India to its knees and tens of thousands of Indians to their deathbeds.
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But the state and the feds are prosecuting him for the same incident
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Sanctioned campgrounds to shelter homeless people are fine as a temporary measure only.
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It’s clearly in taxpayers’ interest to have working people set aside some of their pay for retirement. CalSavers provides an important means to do so.
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The co-founders of Basecamp asked their employees to be politically neutral to prevent disruption. But the rule itself brought chaos.
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The last thing John Cox should have done was drag a bear along with him to a press event.
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The Oversight Board told the company to police its network more effectively rather than using blunt instruments like suspensions. Good luck with that.
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If ‘drought’ means a period of dry years followed by a return to the norm, California is not in drought. The current climate is the norm.
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Why psychology isn’t science
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Sixty years ago, a preteen white girl in Alabama tended to Freedom Riders after their bus was firebombed. Her life would never be the same.
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The nation — in fact, the world — needs to wean itself from fossil fuels if it is to have any hope of managing climate change.
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That question demonstrates a passive bigotry about our place in America.
McCarthy wants to be the next House speaker. That requires placating Republicans who hate Cheney and believe the election was stolen from Trump.
Only about 3.6 million babies were born in 2020, down from about 3.75 million in 2019. The birth rate in the U.S. hasn’t been this low since 1979.
Even if we aggressively move away from fossil fuels, sea level will keep rising for centuries because greenhouse gases are baked into the atmosphere.
Arizona’s Republican leaders show how far the party will go to embrace Trump’s lies and prevent people from voting in the future.
Because of bias and stereotyping, Asian Americans are the least likely racial group to be promoted to management and executive positions.
Some inflation this year won’t indicate that the economy is overheating or that we’re falling into the stagflation of the 1970s.
Social media needs independent supervision. The decision by Facebook’s Oversight Board on whether to permanently exile Trump from the site proves that.
The network repeatedly invited Rudolph W. Giuliani and others who peddled conspiracy theories falsely suggesting the presidential election had been rigged.
Eli Broad was the model of rich-man civic engagement in L.A. in recent decades. But less visible grassroots social movements have been equally powerful.
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As the country grapples with the role of systemic racism, The Times has committed to examining its past.
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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.
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A six-part series from the editorial board on the humanitarian crisis unfolds in our streets.
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It might be tempting for Garcetti to abandon ship now, but L.A. still needs a mayor.
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A mismatch between 2019 census state-level estimates and the 2020 numbers released this week suggests GOP efforts to skew the count may have worked.
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Kevin McCarthy suggests that a commission should look at unrelated issues.
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Does President Biden plan to ban Americans from eating tasty burgers? Only in the demented dreams of conservative commentators.
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There are three reasons why we know the Justice Department’s Giuliani investigation is righteous.
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FDR’s transformative agenda was a direct result of popular support. Biden’s agenda is closer to the opposite.
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Even if unplugged, social platforms should be accountable to the communities they once fostered and give users better ways to keep their memories.
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Anne Marie Schubert, the Sacramento County district attorney, could be the way conservative governance makes its way back in a one-party state.
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City Councilman John Lee responds to a Times editorial on his motion to withdraw city funding from a homeless housing project.
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President Biden’s massive spending proposals have the support of most Americans, even though GOP lawmakers oppose them.
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California’s water policies were instituted at a time we now know was unusually wet for the area. It’s time to stop using water as if we were not in a new, drier era.
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A few months ago, we were worried about the healthcare system collapsing. Now we’re worried about vaccine hesitancy. That’s progress.
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He’d be a good ambassador to India. But Los Angeles is better off if he spends his last year in office ambitiously, relentlessly carrying out his policy agenda.
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Two unions didn’t want to extend the school year after rough pandemic times, but it needed to be done. Neither the state nor the school board tried hard enough.
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Republicans in Congress and the states continue to genuflect at Trump’s altar.
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Facebook’s Oversight Board said all the right things in upholding the social network’s temporary suspension of former President Trump’s account. But one point it didn’t make was that neither Trump nor anyone else is entitled to a place on Facebook.
