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It’s hard to tell whether President Trump simply doesn’t understand how tariffs work or if he just keeps repeating a lie about them.
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Gathering signatures for petitions has got to be a frustrating gig during a year when it’s dangerous to get within spitting distance of strangers.
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Trump’s remarks about Lincoln at the debate fit a pattern of U.S. leaders alluding to the Civil War and 16th president to navigate turbulent times.
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The Constitution forbids Trump from excluding undocumented immigrants in determining representation in the House.
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The Aliso Canyon leak was an environmental disaster. It forced local and state officials to reckon with the risks and consequences of relying on fossil fuels.
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Polarized Christians and the end of Protestant hegemony have ushered Catholics onto the Supreme Court.
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A Times reporter waited less than 15 minutes to vote in suburban Atlanta this week. Many other Georgians won’t be so lucky, but say they are determined to vote no matter how long it takes.
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The pope’s comments on same-sex couples are a signal, not a change in doctrine.
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Tens of millions of struggling Americans need the financial help that another stimulus bill from Congress would provide.
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Lawyers tell a federal judge they still haven’t found parents of 545 migrant children the Trump administration separated from their families three years ago.
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In 1964, white Californians overwhelmingly voted to make segregation a part of the state’s Constitution with the passage of Prop 14.
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If Twitter’s and Facebook’s responses to the N.Y. Post’s Hunter Biden story qualify as illegal contributions, other companies break the law constantly.
Here are the Los Angeles Times’ editorial board endorsements for president, California ballot measures and more.
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It’s hard to tell whether President Trump simply doesn’t understand how tariffs work or if he just keeps repeating a lie about them.
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Here are the Los Angeles Times’ editorial board endorsements for president, California ballot measures and more.
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When half of life is lived on Zoom, it was inevitable that someone, somewhere would be caught self-pleasuring.
The best response to Trump’s bleating is not to jab back but to treat him as if he were a child or a drunk — detach from the ego battles, smile and look away in disbelief.
As a devout Catholic, does the Supreme Court nominee have any thoughts on Pope Francis’ statement in defense of civil unions?
The family of a lifelong Democrat has been imploring him not to support Kamala Harris. They see him as a bad-luck charm.
It was disturbing to hear her describe climate change as ‘a very contentious matter of public debate’ rather than as scientifically established fact.
Although indiscriminate tax increases are a bad idea, overturning the excesses of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act could actually stimulate our economy, while improving tax policy.
The Justice Department claims that when the president calls his accuser a liar, it’s official business.
As one of the most unassuming side effects of the coronavirus, the U.S., for the first time in its history, set up a system of universal healthcare.
Sometimes overlapping talk isn’t an interruption. And sometimes an interruption is a verbal assault.
We now have a kind of partisanship based on imperviousness to evidence and indifference to facts that energizes the wildest of conspiratorial claims.
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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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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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Dianne Feinstein stood up to a group of preteen climate activists with more verve and vitriol than she brought to the Amy Coney Barrett hearings.
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Social media platforms took far too long to start enforcing their rules against campaign-related content and major political figures.
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Now is a good time to remember John Casper Cline, who 99 years ago became the only L.A. County sheriff to be thrown out of office by the Board of Supervisors.
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The Democrats’ focus on the ACA in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett is myopic but politically smart.
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Is killing thousands of Native Americans worse than denying the existential dangers of climate change?
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The fear of hidden Trump voters and a Biden flub is almost an existential dread.
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A bailout will only reward airlines for outrageous executive salaries and stock buybacks. To help employees, renew the $600-a-week jobless benefit.
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California has seen the damage harsh sentencing laws produce. Proposition 20 would strike a blow to justice in the state.
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This debate lacked the frequent interruptions of the first one, but on the substance Trump still said plenty of things our readers did not like.
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Readers respond to an op-ed article on internalizing racist stereotypes from schoolyard jokes.
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Large theme parks like Disneyland evidently value their own profits over the public’s health. Gov. Newsom is right to keep them closed.
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The thought of giving Trump another four years rightly nauseates Americans, who are turning their anxiety into a resolve to oust the president.
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In Thursday’s second and final presidential debate, President Trump said nothing to persuade those who haven’t made up their minds that he deserves a second term.
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Mayor Garcetti said he reformed the city’s sexual harassment reporting system. But what happened when his close aide was accused of sexual harassment?
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Trump’s failure to follow the rules has imperiled BLM head William Perry Pendley’s expansion of mining and drilling access to federal lands.
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The company agreed to plead guilty in a settlement that doesn’t begin to make up for the harm it has caused.
