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What you do — how we ALL act in the next six weeks — will make the difference between an inconvenient fall and a disaster that will take years to overcome.
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Nursing is among America’s most trusted professions. Yet not a single nurse is on Joe Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board. There’s time to change that.
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To pretend that there is anything approaching moral equivalency between Joe Biden and Donald Trump represents an appalling failure to exercise ethical judgment.
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One of the most frustrating aspects of the pandemic has been watching school districts try to figure out remote schooling, with so little guidance from above.
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The U.S. foundation of democracy can withstand Trump. But his tactics will be imitated by leaders in countries where they are more likely to succeed.
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My normally crowded Thanksgiving will have only two people this year due to COVID-19. But we’re making the best of it.
Enter the Fray
As George Costanza famously said on ‘Seinfeld’: “It’s not a lie if you believe it.” Trump supporters seem to be operating on the same principle
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The energy I’ve seen from young Black people who went to the polls came from a desire to oust a far-right president who shows no respect for American democracy. But that energy cannot be taken for granted.
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Alito’s speech may not have been unethical, but it was injudicious
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Will Trump stick around to witness the swearing-in of Joe Biden as his successor? Or will he skip it and tweet from self-exile at Mar-A-Lago?
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The Catholic Church didn’t take abuse of vulnerable adults seriously.
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Democrats can either protect Americans from coronavirus or not. They can prevent catastrophic global warming or not.
Here are the Los Angeles Times’ editorial board endorsements for president, California ballot measures and more.
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To pretend that there is anything approaching moral equivalency between Joe Biden and Donald Trump represents an appalling failure to exercise ethical judgment.
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What you do — how we ALL act in the next six weeks — will make the difference between an inconvenient fall and a disaster that will take years to overcome.
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A lawsuit might result in a loss that would only legitimate Trump’s appalling hijack of the government.
James Madison was right. The electoral college is a shoddy piece of work that keeps coming back to haunt us.
When I get most disillusioned with the system we have, I remember the people I’ve met around the world who are struggling to gain rights we consider basic.
A red-state Republican and a blue-state Democrat discuss the state of politics and the world.
The highway between the financial industry and high-level Washington appointments has harmed ordinary Americans and benefitted elites.
Thanksgiving is the mother of all family dinners and a potent ritual. Figuring out how to celebrate it during the pandemic requires inventing alternative traditions.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone: What moved Latino voters in 2020 was grassroots organizing on local issues and needs, not narrow partisan agendas.
As Trump’s lame-duck period drags on, General Services Administration leader Emily Murphy has refused to declare that her patron is in fact lame.
America’s civic infrastructure, which enables a nation to solve its communal problems, has been allowed to crumble. Here’s how Biden can fix it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have to pay a price for embracing Trump and meddling in American politics on the Republican side.
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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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A six-part series from the editorial board on the humanitarian crisis unfolds in our streets.
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As of Sunday, Trump and his lawyers were 0 for 10 in their pursuit of court-facilitated battleground victories.
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While the nation’s attention was consumed and our president becoming more unhinged and despotic, coronavirus cases hit record highs.
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The onslaught of angry white faces I see on Twitter evokes an indescribable fear that Black America may once again endure the brunt of white violence.
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The parallel results: Many Americans have gone back to work, bringing the unemployment rate down to 6.9%; and many Americans have contracted COVID-19.
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After two decades of advocacy and setbacks, the grass-roots movement to take down four dams in the Klamath River Basin is close to success.
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They say the restaurant’s food is to die for, but is it?
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Biden’s victory alone won’t restore the pillars of democracy that have been damaged under Trump.
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Austin Beutner says we need to take the steps to lower community transmission to a level where it’s safe for kids and teachers to return to campuses.
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The amount of money being poured into the Georgia Senate races is obscene. Donations should only be allowed by Georgians.
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We’re in a COVID-19 surge simply because people aren’t behaving. Health officials need to come up with better messaging.
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The president’s constant lying in the face of verifiable facts mean his supporters will continue to live in an alternate Trumpist universe.
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Giving a full letters page to Trump voters turned the L.A. Times into a platform for propaganda, some readers said. Others appreciated it.
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On the busiest shopping day of the year, we won’t be able to crowd into stores for hours.
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The state’s enhanced COVID-19 precautions are appropriate in the face of the third wave of infections, contrary to what the county supervisors seem to believe.
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For utter base cruelty, the Trump administration’s intentional inhumane treatment of migrant children stands out.
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How can elected officials expect to the public to follow their pandemic guidance when they aren’t willing to do the same?
