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President Biden declared a goal of reducing U,S. carbon emissions by half in less than nine years. That will be tough, but it is vitally necessary.
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Reports out of D.C. raise questions about Xavier Becerra’s Health and Human Services Department and the processing of unaccompanied minors. The whole government needs to do better.
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The ultra-wealthy pay too little into state coffers. A 1% or even 1.5% wealth tax would be peanuts to them but a $22-billion boon for California.
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Most cities respond to even egregious police misconduct with denial and defensiveness. That’s why the Justice Department needs to compel reforms.
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Indigenous activists in Peru fighting deforestation of the Amazon are doing the work that protects all of us from climate catastrophes.
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Most people who have done a lot of good also did some things wrong — like the state senator who played a major role in creating Cal State San Marcos.
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The House speaker said, ‘Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice.’ It was not a wise choice of words.
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She should have watched her words, but Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s threat of a censure is silly.
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Yield — the percentage of students accepted to a college who ultimately decide to go there — is a crucial factor in higher education finance.
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The $1 billion the mayor is spending should be directed toward permanently housing people.
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Saving democracy doesn’t require a bigger high court — yet.
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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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The ultra-wealthy pay too little into state coffers. A 1% or even 1.5% wealth tax would be peanuts to them but a $22-billion boon for California.
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Indigenous activists in Peru fighting deforestation of the Amazon are doing the work that protects all of us from climate catastrophes.
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We’ve been taught that the U.S. had to drop atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II. Historical evidence shows Japan would have surrendered anyway.
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California can do for flooded highways and eroding beaches what it has mostly failed to do for fire — prepare, plan and make changes.
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It is now politically incorrect to use the word “Oriental,” and the admonition has the force of law: President Obama recently signed a bill prohibiting use of the term in all federal documents.
Attempts to distract from the Derek Chauvin trial in George Floyd’s death by fanning outrage at the Los Angeles congresswoman are pathetic.
A jury can’t lead systemic change. As long as good cops protect bad ones, we’ll be in the same spot we were the day before Floyd died.
More than 40% of Republicans say they refuse to take the COVID vaccine. This group could prove to be the biggest barrier to achieving herd immunity in America.
The wall breeds violence, crime and poverty and has shaped the immigration debate for a generation.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy insists the GOP is not the party of ‘nativist dog whistles.’ This might strike some observers of the last four years as a bit of a surprise.
In the absence of clear standards and language proficiency tests, it can be hard for doctors to assess accurately their own language skills.
Stop obsessing over the admission rates of elite colleges, which have never been central to solving the problem of access to higher education.
Keep warheads mobile, at sea or in the air, not in underground silos whose location hasn’t changed in decades.
New ways to monitor the immune systems of COVID-19 patients could be useful in understanding the long-term symptoms of Lyme disease, among other conditions.
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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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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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Why do Americans — and especially Californians — fall for the lure of celebrity-politicians?
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Cartoonist Mimi Pond on the people, food and IKEA instructions that get on our last nerve
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The national security state is cheering for a new Cold War with China. Americans should be deeply worried.
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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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It isn’t enough for the U.S. to surrender just its aging ground-based nuclear missiles. If it doesn’t make sense to have some nukes, it doesn’t make sense to have any.
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Allowing tenants to recover attorney fees from landlords who unsuccessfully take them to court would cut down on evictions and reduce homelessness.
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About 1,000 Americans are killed every year by police, but Derek Chauvin’s conviction is the exception rather than the rule. That has to change.
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Mental health disorders, including postpartum psychosis, are a common complication of childbirth. All L.A. County agencies should be equipped to address this.
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Having just steered Los Angeles Unified through an incredibly trying three years, Supt. Austin Beutner said Wednesday that he won’t be back for more. His looming departure won’t help a district badly in need of stability in top management.
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Even though we profess that all men are created equal, we have built a society that dispenses unequal treatment by race and by class, especially in encounters with police.
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The anti-harassment ordinance is aimed at stopping the worst violations by property owners, who flagrantly break the laws that honest landlords follow.
