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The irony of my mother’s murder is that it accomplished what she could not. It got my sister and me a little money.
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The Los Angeles city attorney recommends a citywide ban on flavored e-cigarettes and other tobacco products that appeal to kids. The council should do so. And quickly.
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Minority underrepresentation in the high-tech industry is nothing new. My father was the first black software engineer at IBM, which has a long history with racism. -
People will vote for a racist. They’ll vote for a sexist. They’ll vote for a narcissistic maniac. What they won’t vote for is a punch line.
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Democrats vying for the presidential nomination in 2020 are far to the left of the 2016 field.
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President Trump’s lawsuit to block subpoenas seeking financial records is doomed to fail.
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The most direct way to limit price increases of prescription drugs is to cap them. Top Republicans and Democrats are now backing bills to do so. Trump may be on board.
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Trump trashes norms and future presidents will suffer for it
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Today’s climate protests reinforce what we already know: The world must act quickly and radically to upend how we create and consume energy.
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President Trump is showing Congress the downside of granting discretion to the executive branch.
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A federal appeals court ordered Arizona to keep mics hot in the death chamber, but lets it hide sources of lethal injection drugs and who is doing the killing. If there’s that much shame involved, maybe they should stop the barbaric practice altogether.
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Trump’s move to rescind California’s legal ability to set its own, higher motor vehicle emissions is designed to #MakeAmericaGaspAgain.
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Minority underrepresentation in the high-tech industry is nothing new. My father was the first black software engineer at IBM, which has a long history with racism.
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The irony of my mother’s murder is that it accomplished what she could not. It got my sister and me a little money.
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People will vote for a racist. They’ll vote for a sexist. They’ll vote for a narcissistic maniac. What they won’t vote for is a punch line.
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Trump’s tariffs have put billions of dollars in U.S. coffers and much-needed pressure on China.
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Many striking GM workers voted for Trump over Clinton. Remember that when you hear pundits say Sanders and Warren aren’t electable.
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USC’s decentralized fiscal system makes the top goal a constant search for cash. It’s contributed to USC’s successes and — mightily — to its failures.
While Bernie Sanders caterwauls about revolution, Joe Biden turns to incoherent sentimentalism and the president suffocates reason, Warren’s simple truths are getting our left brains working again.
The climate crisis requires collective action on a massive scale, and the most potent political impediment to collective action comes from racial division.
Homelessness stems from many causes, and it will take many options to solve it.
The fury of the Thomas fire made climate change real for me. That’s why I’m joining the Global Climate Strike on Friday.
The nightmare scenario of a government dominated by a nationalist-religious coalition has been averted.
Institutions like MIT might start out with an aversion to tainted money, but if the payout is big enough they will shift their conduct to protect their benefactor.
Trump’s attack on California’s authority to set air pollution rules would mean we’ll see fewer clean cars.
The College Student Right to Access Act would require California public university students on-campus access to the “abortion pill.” It’s on Gov. Newsom’s desk, and he should sign it.
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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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It’s disheartening that fellow Californians are so eager to support a president whose retrograde positions on the environment threaten the very things that make the Golden State great.
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A new Trump administration report recommends deregulation to cure homelessness, but its recommendations should gall conservatives as much as liberals.
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Impeaching a Supreme Court justice shouldn’t be politics as usual.
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Overcoming opposition from companies making high-interest loans, the state Legislature was poised to give final approval Friday to a bill to cap interest rates on installment loans between $2,500 and $10,000.
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Conditions in immigrant detention facilities are ideal for creating deadly flu strains.
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Did you know it takes 5,000 gallons of water to make a T-shirt and jeans? Patt Morrison talks with Dana Thomas about her book “Fashionopolis.”
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Democrats and Republicans both insist impossible policies are not only possible, but easy.
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Divesting is less a moral imperative than risk-averse stewardship of the university’s endowment and pension fund.
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It’s great to protest over climate change, but it doesn’t mean much until we stop raising animals for food, a major driver of global warming.
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The story of how Joe Biden struggled with and overcame childhood stuttering is something people of all political stripes can appreciate.
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What’s it like to live in a state that allows private beaches? A resident of Washington state reminds Californians.
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Women in college face profound, life-altering consequences from unintended pregnancies. They deserve access to full reproductive care.
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The biggest question may be whether later high school start times actually result in more sleep for teen students.
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No question, California has built far too little housing in recent decades, and that red tape has played a role in that. But Carson’s solution to the problem, like President Trump’s, is nothing more than slogans. They need to get real.
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The homeowners of Hollister Ranch have, for decades, treated the coast as their own private beach. It’s not and never has been.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is carrying President Trump’s water by rejecting a bill to protect salmon and other endangered species.
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