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A freak reusable straw accident is a tragedy but not a reason to back away from efforts to reduce disposable plastic.
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The article of impeachment offered by Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) is not the one pro-impeachment Democrats have been waiting for.
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John Paul Stevens joined the Supreme Court in a less-ideological era
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To deal with a surge in asylum seekers, Trump is trying to rewrite federal law and impose terms unilaterally on Mexico and Guatemala. The asylum system does have problems, but that’s not the solution.
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The women were ordered to line up outdoors, strip, and toss their clothes onto the concrete in front of them.
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To win reelection, Trump needs to make Democrats look more radical than he is.
Enter the Fray
President Trump’s Twitter tantrum calling for four female Democratic members of Congress to “go back” to the “crime-infested places from which they came” was ugly and ill-founded.
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In backing down from his plan to include a question about U.S. citizenship on next year’s census form, President Trump on Thursday gave credence to the claims of critics that his administration had an ulterior — and partisan — motive in pressing for inclusion of the question.
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The 2020 election is shaping up to be yet another referendum on healthcare, thanks to a long-shot lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act that has somehow stayed alive in the courts.
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If you’ve paid any attention at all to politics in recent years, you’ve probably heard this expression at least once or twice: “We’ve always had differences of opinions, but back in the old days, at least we all operated off the same set of facts.”
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A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that President Trump violated the 1st Amendment by blocking some critics from access to his Twitter feed.
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On Monday, two Californians’ ships passed each other in the 2020 presidential campaign, as Bay Area Rep.
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The article of impeachment offered by Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) is not the one pro-impeachment Democrats have been waiting for.
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On a good day, I’m almost fluent in Chinese.
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Homeless people should have a legal right to shelter and a legal obligation to utilize it.
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When I arrived at USC 11 years ago as dean of religious life, my pastoral conversations with students mostly focused on their quests for meaning and purpose.
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To win reelection, Trump needs to make Democrats look more radical than he is.
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Whereas L.A. has focused (unsuccessfully) on trying to create long-term affordable housing, New York has focused on creating temporary shelters.
David Runciman, a politics and history professor at Cambridge University, talks about his book “How Democracy Ends”.
Trump’s latest asylum ban will make problems at the border worse and encourage people entering the country illegally to hide.
Paul D. Ryan is getting the hate treatment — again.
Everyone needs to pay their fair share of taxes, including the cannabis industry.
As the Vietnam War caromed to an end, Sister Marie Therese LeBlanc, a middle-aged American nun serving at Friends of the Children of Vietnam orphanage in Saigon, signed one affidavit after another attesting to sons and daughters she never had.
I thought I hated Nixon. I thought I hated Reagan. I thought I hated Bush and Cheney.
Hats. Tanks. Betsy Ross. The Fourth of July.
One of the marvels of the race to the moon in the 1960s were the Apollo spacesuits — blazing, iconic white on the outside and composed of 21 layers of nested fabric.
Projects
A six-part series from the editorial board challenging NIMBYs and their City Hall enablers who balk at building new housing while a humanitarian crisis unfolds in our streets.
It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters.
Ideas and commentary on building a livable, sustainable Los Angeles.
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The Trump administration is absolutely bonkers – which comes as a surprise to no one at this point, but it’s remarkable how many different ways it manifests itself.
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A federal judge in Seattle has stymied yet another effort by the Trump administration to make it as difficult as possible for people from other countries to seek asylum in the U.S.
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The announcement late Tuesday by the Trump administration that it would drop efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census is a victory not only for a more accurate census but for the rule of law.
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Trump’s heavy-handed immigration enforcement policies have a clearly discernible set of victims: Children.
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The California State Assembly is preparing to vote on three bills to require mandatory training on implicit bias for law enforcement officers, medical professionals, judges and trial lawyers.
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If you listen to conservatives, including President Trump, social media companies are censoring them, and the courts are making things worse.
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Congratulations, FIFA, you pulled off the most successful Women’s World Cup in history.
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To the editor: President Trump, as the world bears witness, continues to serve as Exhibit A in proving the age-old adage that no amount of riches or wealth can ever imbue anyone with any level of class, dignity, honor or character.
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The welcoming words at the foot of the Statue of Liberty are just a myth, and the recent immigration raids prove it.
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In a way, Joe Biden resembles America: racially problematic half a century ago, but now tolerant and trying to right past wrongs.
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President Trump tweeted racist attacks that ought to spur universal condemnation. Instead, Republicans are staying largely silent.
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Robert Foster wants to be governor of Mississippi — at least the male half of it.
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It’s already a crime to identify a covert intelligence agent or confidential informant working overseas.
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The resolution House Democrats plan to pass condemning President Trump for his xenophobic, offensive tweets over the weekend is just that — a resolution, without consequences or punishment.
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Bail was set at a stunning $25 million for Naason Joaquin Garcia after he was arrested last month at Los Angeles International Airport on charges of human trafficking and forcing children to perform sex acts.
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