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I suspect Mayor Pete’s sagging support among us black voters is more about his record on race than his sexual orientation.
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World fossil fuel production will, by 2030, be twice what we can burn without pushing global temperatures into the danger zone. That’s more than bad. -
California’s Supreme Court just affirmed what we already knew: The new law requiring candidates to release their tax records to be included on the primary ballot is unconstitutional.
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Trump has a chance to stand up for Hong Kong. He should take it.
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Fred Rogers was anything but a glutton; his Thanksgiving shows were about hunger not just bounty, and he refused “to eat anything that had a mother.”
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Domestic violence and sex trafficking victims are being deported because the U.S. won’t give them shelter.
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The court decision says Trump’s plan for federal executions violates federal law. We should all be more concerned that the practice defies humanity.
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Young people want someone like Bernie Sanders who will fight for them. They deserve that.
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The Democratic debate in Atlanta has tough competition for the nation’s attention. But winnowing the candidate field is vitally important.
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At Tuesday’s impeachment hearing, the GOP floated the nasty idea that witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman might have divided loyalties.
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The death of a California woman two years after being wounded in the Las Vegas massacre reminds us of the other victims of gun violence — survivors.
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Responding to Nancy Pelosi, Trump tweeted that he will “strongly consider” testifying in the House impeachment inquiry. Translation: Nope.
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Young people want someone like Bernie Sanders who will fight for them. They deserve that.
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Many elementary school teachers are anxious about teaching math, and studies show their students learn less from them. Math should be taught by specialists starting in kindergarten.
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Living near homeless encampments can feel like a nightmare. So let’s get people housed faster.
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I suspect Mayor Pete’s sagging support among us black voters is more about his record on race than his sexual orientation.
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World fossil fuel production will, by 2030, be twice what we can burn without pushing global temperatures into the danger zone. That’s more than bad.
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Democrats have embarked on an impeachment process that will eventually allow Trump to claim exoneration.
The Senate report on CIA torture is still secret, and no officials who created it have been held accountable.
Gordon Sondland obliterated any lingering doubts about Trump as an anti-corruption crusader.
President Trump is not alone in mistrusting the State Department: Presidents have often resented the advice offered by foreign service professionals.
Closing the San Onofre nuclear plant didn’t end its threat since nuclear waste is stored at the facility, which sits on an erosion-prone bluff.
J. became gravely ill from measles, because herd immunity against this disease is weakening.
Kavanaugh isn’t going to disappear from public view. It’s important that truth tellers such as Blasey Ford don’t disappear either.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ win was bad for Trump. But it was good for conservatives.
The parents of today’s ‘Dreamers’ wanted a better life for their children, just like my grandpa when he left Mexico for Texas in 1945.
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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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A six-part series from the editorial board on the humanitarian crisis unfolds in our streets.
Our six-part series of editorials about the 45th president.
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Trump demeaned the former ambassador to Ukraine as she testified in an impeachment hearing.
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Political operative Roger Stone’s defense has much in common with the argument some Republicans are making against impeachment.
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No, no, no, no. This whole Democratic nomination fight is going in the wrong direction. We should be seeing more candidates dropping out, not jumping in.
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Republicans argued that impeachment witnesses refused to let Trump set foreign policy. But falling in line to serve Trump’s political interests isn’t part of the job.
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I used to think she represented exactly what I liked least about Los Angeles. Now I see her self-made persona as an admirable emblem of the city.
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Facial recognition surveillance, powered by artificial intelligence, is being used — or misused — in cities worldwide.
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California has nine national parks — the most of any state. It also has the most polluted national parks in the country. We need to change that
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Many young black voters refused to vote in 2016, reflecting exactly the messages and memes spread by Russian bots on social media.
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More than 8 million people live near the San Onofre nuclear plant, which remains woefully unprepared for disaster.
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Criminalizing homelessness just makes it more difficult for people to remain off the street. More holistic solutions are needed.
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No matter how unsympathetic the person, it is simply wrong for anyone to be charged with murder after experiencing a stillbirth.
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Asylum officers are trained to determine which claims are valid. Forcing them to make immigrants wait in Mexico is immoral.
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Sondland says many Trump administration officials were in the Ukraine ‘loop.’
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President Trump promised to ban flavored electronic cigarettes. We should have known better.
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Trump’s new push for transparency at hospitals is legally suspect and only half baked.
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Allowing the Board of Supervisors to impeach the sheriff would show that sheriffs are no longer invulnerable to oversight and accountability.
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