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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a volunteer uses a megaphone to talk to residents at an apartment building in Shanghai, China, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Shanghai has released more than 6,000 more people from medical observation amid a COVID-19 outbreak, the government said Wednesday, but moves to further ease the lockdown on China's largest city appeared to have stalled. (Chen Jianli/Xinhua via AP)

Op-Ed: The catastrophic success of China’s zero-COVID policy

China’s leaders are clinging to their disastrous zero-COVID policy, because it worked in 2020. The regime’s authoritarian structure makes it very hard to change once a number is set.

Op-Ed: Mass shooters aren’t mentally ill people who suddenly snap. They decide to kill
Op-Ed: The mentally ill defendants in my courtroom need treatment, not jail
Op-Comic: Weekly entries from Ukraine — Week 12
Op-Ed: When will our North Korea policy get real? Kim Jong Un won’t denuclearize
Editorial: The shame of America’s baby-formula shortage

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L.A. Times electoral endorsements

L.A. Times’ editorial board endorsements for elected offices in the June 7 California primary

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People pray outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. A white 18-year-old wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, killing and wounding people in what authorities described as “racially motivated violent extremism.” (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Calmes: Buffalo, Laguna Woods and the Supreme Court’s radical revision of U.S. history

The founders intended the 2nd Amendment to protect not individuals’ rights, but the rights of states to arm their own militias, without interference from the federal government.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses a keynote speech during a session of the CPAC

Op-Ed: American conservatives’ pilgrimage to Hungary is a joke

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: The dome of the U.S. Capitol Building is seen as Anti-abortion activists and supporters march along Constitution Ave, with their final destination being the Supreme Court of the United States during the 49th annual March for Life along Constitution Ave. on Friday, Jan. 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

Op-Ed: Leave abortion law to the states? Just look at the Fugitive Slave Act to see how that will go

BUFFALO, NY - MAY 18: A memorial across the street from Tops Friendly Market at Jefferson Avenue and Riley Street on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Buffalo, NY. The Supermarket was the site of a fatal shooting of 10 people at a grocery store in a historically Black neighborhood of Buffalo by a young white gunman is being investigated as a hate crime and an act of "racially motivated violent extremism," according to federal officials. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

Guerrero: White terrorists have ‘Tucker Carlson Syndrome.’ Millions are vulnerable to it

(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 23, 2019 a Facebook employee walks by a sign displaying the "like" sign at Facebook's corporate headquarters campus in Menlo Park, California. - President Donald Trump has been on a social media ad spending spree for his 2020 re-election campaign, but he's about to endure a massive digital counterattack. His opponents are rushing in with multimillion-dollar efforts to prevent him from dominating the web, even as the rules of the main platforms are in flux. Trump has spent more than $30 million on Facebook and Google since May 2018. His aggressive ads have spurred activists to pressure key sites to better police political misinformation or even ban campaign ads altogether, as Twitter has done. The digital battleground is expected to be expensive for candidates and, some say, crucial for their prospects. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **

Op-Ed: Another bad Texas idea: Make it illegal to take down vicious social media content

Abcarian: This is a perilous moment for rights we take for granted

Jonah Goldberg: Trump’s goal is to solidify control over the GOP, not help it win elections

3 Good Things: A smooth landing, a healing laugh and a win for debaters

Op-Ed: California can do better than carbon neutrality by 2045

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Nicholas Goldberg: California’s law requiring women on corporate boards was just struck down. I’m glad
Granderson: The stories we will tell ourselves about the shooting in Buffalo
Op-Ed: I hid my pregnancy from the internet so I know: Online privacy is nearly impossible
Op-Ed: The end of Roe means we’ll be criminalized for more of our data

Letters to the Editor

Opinion: Ho-hum, more angry letters after a mass shooting. These won’t be the last
Letters to the Editor: Bring back the 55 mph national speed limit. It’ll save on gas and a lot more
Letters to the Editor: Israel has serious security concerns. Palestinians’ supporters must accept that
Letters to the Editor: There is no $97.5-billion budget surplus when so much in California needs fixing

Editorials

Editorial: Return to pre-pandemic public meeting rules? Yes — and no
Editorial: Heat waves are killing Californians in their homes. Cooling standards could save lives
Endorsement: Give L.A. businesses a leg up. Say yes to Charter Amendment BB
Endorsement: Elizabeth Alcantar for Assembly

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Video Op-Ed: A trans athlete’s guide to media coverage of trans athletes

Rook Campbell (he/him, they/them) is a swimmer and a trans guy.

Op-Ed: A trans athlete’s guide to writing about trans athletes

Here’s a handy rule of thumb for sports journalists: Let people describe themselves.

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Letters to the Editor: I was a teacher in the 1960s. My white colleagues berated nonwhite students
Letters to the Editor: Stop the blanket media coverage of mass shootings. It may put lives at risk
Letters to the Editor: The Supreme Court has lost a lot more than camaraderie, Justice Thomas
Letters to the Editor: When jails double as mental health facilities, we know we’ve failed
Letters to the Editor: This is what needs to replace the 2nd Amendment
Endorsement: Kate Pynoos for Los Angeles City Council District 13
Letters to the Editor: If you can’t afford L.A., live elsewhere. That was true in the 1950s too
Editorial: Virulent white supremacy has become normalized. And we let it happen
Letters to the Editor: There are 400 million guns in America. What did we expect?
Endorsement: Sydney Kamlager for Congress
Letters to the Editor: Critics of the new math curriculum framework, you have any better ideas?
Column: A decade ago, California adopted a strange top-two primary system. How’s it working out?

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