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Venice activists did not want to cut the LAPD’s budget. They sought to secede from L.A. and become an independent city with a police force under community control.
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When publishing magnate Jay Penske bought the First Baptist Church in Venice, he had no idea how upset some locals would be.
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President Trump has a history of putting his personal interests and political interests ahead of the nation’s interest. Be very wary as November nears.
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Regularly escaping to the Angeles National Forest is one way to deal with the stress and uncertainty of life during the pandemic.
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Plastic might be saving our lives from coronavirus now, only to endanger us in the future as it pervades our food and the very air we breathe.
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Annual July 4 parties are suspended this year, so stay safe and take our quiz instead.
Enter the Fray
How sad is it that smart and powerful people are reduced to cajoling the president of the U.S. to take one tiny sensible step to help stop Americans from dying from the coronavirus?
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The story surfaced like one of those trial balloons we’re used to seeing out of political offices and campaigns — Republican insiders telling Fox News that President Trump is grumpy about his reelection prospects and might quit the campaign if his poll numbers don’t improve.
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In 2005, he warned that overruling precedents would ‘jolt’ the legal system.
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The attorney general — again — is acting as the president’s enabler.
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Didn’t Trump take the hint from the 2018 election, when Democrats retook the House by running against the GOP’s efforts to repeal Obamacare?
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New polls show Donald Trump trailing Joe Biden in a half-dozen swing states -- just where an incumbent does not want to be five months ahead of the election.
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When publishing magnate Jay Penske bought the First Baptist Church in Venice, he had no idea how upset some locals would be.
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President Trump has a history of putting his personal interests and political interests ahead of the nation’s interest. Be very wary as November nears.
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What should be done with an accomplishment that features problematic men carved in a problematic location by a problematic sculptor?
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Spewing carbon monoxide across L.A. on the freeway system feeds into a pot of racism and segregation that’s been stewing for nearly a century.
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The Reagan administration’s policies in Central America gave rise to the refugee crisis that persists today.
Even the fiercest of the White House collaborators — Sen. Mitch McConnell, Vice President Mike Pence, Atty. Gen. William Barr — will have to let the inevitable happen: The president is indefensible.
If Chief Justice John Roberts can find a way to maintain the court’s reputation and eliminate Roe, he will.
What message do public officials send when they mandate masks but don’t enforce the order when people willfully disobey?
With every Trump speech or tweet, you can hear Nixon and McCarthy lurking in the background.
I’m glad that books about antiracism have zoomed to the top of bestseller lists, but I wonder how many will actually be read.
Americans have no right to have a beer at the bar or walk around unmasked, but we like to imagine that freedom means we’re exempt from the law.
What’s galling is that this isn’t the first time we’ve had to explain all this and demand our seats at the table.
The author of the Trump administration’s coronavirus fiasco is in many ways the man who remade the Republican Party in the 1980s.
In 1989, the Supreme Court declared that Gregory ‘Joey’ Johnson had the right to burn the flag. He’s been torching it ever since.
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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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Our six-part series of editorials about the 45th president.
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What we’ve seen in Gov. Greg Abbott’s response to the coronavirus is the damage that hyper-individualism can do and has done to this country.
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Erring on the side of leniency isn’t suspicious if it’s done evenhandedly
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The priority at a Biden Justice Department should be insulation from politics.
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The comment is a reminder of the xenophobia that has often been the bedfellow of racism in America.
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In previous eras, the long-term good of the party mattered more than individual politicians.
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Chief Justice Roberts helped preserve access to abortion, but his reasoning didn’t weigh the consequences of denying women control over childbearing.
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Roberts made clear he disagrees with today’s abortion decision, but felt that precedent had to be honored
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The fall election could well turn on whether, after four years of Trump, the country is simply exhausted and needs a respite.
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Taxpayer money should never subsidize tuition at private religious schools, but the Supreme Court wrongly believes otherwise.
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The former president is everything Trump isn’t: respected both abroad and at home, a capable leader and much more.
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Americans are made to wear things all the time that might make them uncomfortable. So why the resistance to masks in a pandemic?
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Letters to the Editor: Renaming John Wayne Airport misses the point: Racism is everywhere in America
Letters to the Editor: Renaming John Wayne Airport misses the point: Racism is everywhere in America
John Wayne said some horribly racist things that were common beliefs in his day. We shouldn’t rename the Orange County airport.
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For too many people, and for too many generations, the “self-evident” truth of equality has just been empty words scrawled on parchment.
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A federal judge ordered the city and county to provide beds and services for people. But options are scarce, and warehousing them in large congregate settings is the worst option. Outdoor camping is no better.
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Yes, it’s getting tiring. But scientific innovations are on the way, and meanwhile we’ve got to keep one another safe.
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Israel would undermine its own security by annexing parts of the West Bank
