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As Trump and his apparatchiks pull the party down around them, they’re lashing out not just at the democratic system, but at the right itself.
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By taking over houses owned by Caltrans, activists have shined a spotlight on the housing crisis.
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The Supreme Court needs to reject President Trump’s ahistorical effort to exclude people living here without permission from congressional reapportionment.
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Unlike some other district attorneys, L.A. County D.A.-elect George Gascón won’t be able to fire people who opposed his election or don’t like his policies.
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My daughter is home for winter break. She tested negative and then retreated to her room to quarantine.
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Denmark’s minks were just the latest example of why cramming animals together is dangerous to humans.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein has stepped down from a leadership role on the Judiciary Committee. Her performance during the panel’s Supreme Court hearing and her cordial congratulations to Chairman Lindsey Graham rankled Democrats and activists.
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The Trump administration chose a salmon fishery over corporate profits. It probably didn’t hurt that Donald Trump Jr. opposed the project.
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President Trump is claiming victory even as he enables the transition to President-elect Joe Biden.
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A lesson in why it’s silly to fixate on who appointed a federal judge.
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As George Costanza famously said on ‘Seinfeld’: “It’s not a lie if you believe it.” Trump supporters seem to be operating on the same principle
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The energy I’ve seen from young Black people who went to the polls came from a desire to oust a far-right president who shows no respect for American democracy. But that energy cannot be taken for granted.
Here are the Los Angeles Times’ editorial board endorsements for president, California ballot measures and more.
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What you do — how we ALL act in the next six weeks — will make the difference between an inconvenient fall and a disaster that will take years to overcome.
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The superpredator theory, created 25 years ago, infected every institution to rob Black children of the protections of childhood.
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50 years later, JFK girlfriend Judith Campbell Exner deserves an image makeover
Unlike most of the nation’s great river systems, the Mobile Basin has survived with its rich biodiversity mostly intact. That is changing.
Trump’s continuous attacks on American democracy could lead to four years of durable disorder, acts of violence that become so common we stop to notice but barely flinch.
A study shows that only 3% of Latino adults use the label “Latinx,” but the term has vocal supporters. The debate about names and identity among Latinos isn’t new, especially in politics.
After Trump lost and Twitter began enforcing its policy on disinformation, people have turned to Parler, which has no restrictions on falsehoods
To purge Trumpism, the president’s abuses must be reckoned with — not as retribution, but to deter recurrence.
Emily the Scrivener gave in. And Ozymandias Trump is in ruins along with his presidency.
The mood around my town, El Monte, is subdued with worry amid the threat of illness. Inside my house, we cling to each other and wait for better days.
The courts as an institution never went in the tank for Trump, or seemed at real risk of doing so.
In oral arguments, conservative justices have revealed a desire to find compromises that could satisfy both sides of the partisan divide.
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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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Alito’s speech may not have been unethical, but it was injudicious
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Will Trump stick around to witness the swearing-in of Joe Biden as his successor? Or will he skip it and tweet from self-exile at Mar-A-Lago?
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The Catholic Church didn’t take abuse of vulnerable adults seriously.
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Democrats can either protect Americans from coronavirus or not. They can prevent catastrophic global warming or not.
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Our plague year is an opportunity to see, at last, one of the hidden truths of America’s founding: the great suffering of the Native people.
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After 9/11, Rudy Giuliani tried to extend his term as New York mayor despite term limits, and failed. He apparently learned nothing.
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This could be the weirdest Thanksgiving ever since random family and friends will show up via Zoom, and they’ll all be starved for human interaction.
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The repeated allegations with little proof is reminiscent of the McCarthy era.
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The “superpredator” trope invented in the 1990s is still being used to brutalize young Black men who pose no risk to anyone else.
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Los Angeles needs more open space, not less. Allowing Frank McCourt to build a gondola over a new downtown-adjacent park would be a huge step backward.
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We should have fully shut down last spring. Now, with daily cases and deaths having doubled, L.A. County’s latest action is doomed to fail.
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A swamp is a wonderful, biodiverse region that teems with life. What Trump had was a toxic-waste dump full of wealthy grifters.
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Face it: It’s time to kill the handshake.
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The Biden administration and Congress need to modernize the federal law on marijuana to reflect the reality on the ground.
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Let’s lighten a dark period by doing the lion’s share of our shopping in small local stores and by channeling our busy holiday doings into gifts for others.
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President-elect Joe Biden recognizes the dangers of global warming and vows to confront the problem head on. Good, because we just wasted four years.
