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If L.A. County supervisors are serious about their care-first approach to services, they will reject the nomination of Drew Pinsky, the COVID-denying, justice-reform-blaming media darling who stands for just about everything opposite of the reforms the board has put forward.
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Nearly 30 million refugees around the world are fleeing war or persecution. Surely the Biden administration can let in 62,500 this year as it promised.
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Widespread support for background checks and smart gun technology could push enough GOP senators out of lockstep on gun control.
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When the 11-year-old returned to school, it was surely one of the strangest and most exhilarating back-to-school days of all time.
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Biden has backed away from plans to ramp up refugee resettlements, a disappointment to the refugees and contrary to our moral responsibility.
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At least eight people were killed in a workplace mass shooting in Indianapolis. This is not surprising news in a country awash in firearms.
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The court’s senior Democratic appointee warns about court-packing.
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Prince Philip was old school even as the royal family changed around him.
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The Amazon organizing drive spotlights unions’ bigger problem: persuading Americans exactly how vital they are to our working lives.
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This is what is normal in the United States: daily gun violence, daily carnage, daily indifference.
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Republicans are blasting corporations for criticizing Georgia’s new election law. What happened to their support for corporate free-speech rights?
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If companies can stop people from freely copying their application programming interfaces, we’ll end up with fewer great services and apps online.
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If L.A. County supervisors are serious about their care-first approach to services, they will reject the nomination of Drew Pinsky, the COVID-denying, justice-reform-blaming media darling who stands for just about everything opposite of the reforms the board has put forward.
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Widespread support for background checks and smart gun technology could push enough GOP senators out of lockstep on gun control.
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Science and religion: God didn’t make man; man made gods
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Guns kill people every day, and despite what some conservatives would have us believe, voting isn’t dangerous.
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The extreme weather of the last year has been so terrifying, and so very extreme, that it is tempting to look at the string of disasters around the world and think: Climate change is here.
History shows that if water agencies and other leaders acknowledge drought and offer solutions for more efficient water use, Californians will step up.
It’s unlikely Bernie Madoff ever got into cryptocurrency from his prison cell, but he might have appreciated the logic.
Most states have hundreds of laws that police can use as a pretext for an unjustified traffic stop, which can then escalate into violence.
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan might allow Al Qaeda to rebuild its terrorist network so it can again launch spectacular attacks on Western soil.
There’s no one easy fix for the gun violence epidemic. But the fight against cancer shows a methodical way forward.
Toss out the toys, lay off the praise: A new book on parenting looks to ancient cultures for child-rearing tips.
There isn’t a single thing Black folks can do to solve white racism, but the onus is placed at our feet anyway.
The court sent a clear message to state and local governments that, even in a pandemic, they cannot trample on religious liberty.
If you can inherit wealth from your ancestors, you can inherit their debts as well.
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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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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.
A six-part series from the editorial board on the humanitarian crisis unfolds in our streets.
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‘Line warming’ in Georgia makes voting a social and political occasion.
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The foundation of our democracy is the right to vote. Republicans in Georgia and elsewhere are trying to strip that right from people of color.
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The high court’s decision says the federal law against unsolicited calls applies only to randomly dialed numbers, not calls to numbers in a database.
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What about this moment says it’s a good idea to bulldoze Latino neighborhoods in southeast L.A. County to widen the 605 Freeway?
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Three Florida Men — Donald Trump, Rep. Matt Gaetz and Gov. Ron DeSantis — define the Republican Party these days. But DeSantis knows how to govern effectively.
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I am a surgeon in a privileged profession, but structural anti-Asian racism plagues medicine as it does other sectors of society.
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On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut, blasted off in the Vostok 1 spacecraft and became the first human to see Earth from space.
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More investment in violence intervention programs in the hardest hit cities could cut homicide rates in half.
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Rumors of California’s demise may be greatly exaggerated, but the Golden State faces a serious crisis of poverty and income inequity.
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A doctor and a public health student each say more context is needed to understand the decision to temporarily suspend vaccination with the Johnson & Johnson shot.
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If the state can provide for the return of beachfront property to the Bruce family, it needs to address California’s dispossessed Native Americans.
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The dispassionate response by police in Brooklyn Center, Minn., is totally detached from the seriousness of wrongly shooting someone.
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One of the latest frontiers in the assault on abortion rights is the attempt to police a woman’s reasons for getting an abortion.
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Mississippi made an important statement when it adopted a new flag, replacing a Confederate symbol. Then it declared April Confederate Heritage Month.
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Improving the Capitol Police requires bipartisan cooperation
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It will take more than big, empty promises to curtail oil drilling and wean California off fossil fuels.
