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As the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin went to the jury in the death of George Floyd, a parallel case was resubmitted to an American public that has been in contentious deliberations for the 30 years since Los Angeles police officers brutally beat Rodney King.
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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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In the absence of clear standards and language proficiency tests, it can be hard for doctors to assess accurately their own language skills.
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Little noticed, the day-care industry was bludgeoned by the pandemic. But the nation’s shortage of affordable child care has been hampering families, especially women, for decades.
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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 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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Stop obsessing over the admission rates of elite colleges, which have never been central to solving the problem of access to higher education.
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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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Why do Americans — and especially Californians — fall for the lure of celebrity-politicians?
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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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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.
Keep warheads mobile, at sea or in the air, not in underground silos whose location hasn’t changed in decades.
Cartoonist Mimi Pond on the people, food and IKEA instructions that get on our last nerve
The national security state is cheering for a new Cold War with China. Americans should be deeply worried.
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.
Widespread support for background checks and smart gun technology could push enough GOP senators out of lockstep on gun control.
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.
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.
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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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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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‘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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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.
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There’s no one easy fix for the gun violence epidemic. But the fight against cancer shows a methodical way forward.
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Toss out the toys, lay off the praise: A new book on parenting looks to ancient cultures for child-rearing tips.
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There isn’t a single thing Black folks can do to solve white racism, but the onus is placed at our feet anyway.
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A reader’s idea: Put each justice on a 16-year-term, and give whomever is president at the end of a term the chance to reappoint or name a successor.
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Why the Supreme Court erred on both biblical and constitutional grounds when it struck down California’s rule on indoor religious meetings.
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No one should be killed after being pulled over for broken taillights or air freshener hanging from a rearview mirror.
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Shame probably kept people from showing up to a White Lives Matter rally, but there are other ways people are making racist statements in public.
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As Biden prepares to host a virtual climate summit this week, he must set a U.S. goal of a 50% drop in carbon emissions by 2030.
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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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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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One of the latest frontiers in the assault on abortion rights is the attempt to police a woman’s reasons for getting an abortion.
