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The climate crisis requires collective action on a massive scale, and the most potent political impediment to collective action comes from racial division.
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Homelessness stems from many causes, and it will take many options to solve it.
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The homeowners of Hollister Ranch have, for decades, treated the coast as their own private beach. It’s not and never has been.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is carrying President Trump’s water by rejecting a bill to protect salmon and other endangered species.
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Napolitano, who announced that she will leave her job next August to teach at UC Berkeley, has been exactly the kind of tough, politically savvy leader that UC needed during a particularly rocky time.
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President Trump is showing Congress the downside of granting discretion to the executive branch.
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A federal appeals court ordered Arizona to keep mics hot in the death chamber, but lets it hide sources of lethal injection drugs and who is doing the killing. If there’s that much shame involved, maybe they should stop the barbaric practice altogether.
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Trump’s move to rescind California’s legal ability to set its own, higher motor vehicle emissions is designed to #MakeAmericaGaspAgain.
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It’s disheartening that fellow Californians are so eager to support a president whose retrograde positions on the environment threaten the very things that make the Golden State great.
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A new Trump administration report recommends deregulation to cure homelessness, but its recommendations should gall conservatives as much as liberals.
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Impeaching a Supreme Court justice shouldn’t be politics as usual.
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Overcoming opposition from companies making high-interest loans, the state Legislature was poised to give final approval Friday to a bill to cap interest rates on installment loans between $2,500 and $10,000.
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Homelessness stems from many causes, and it will take many options to solve it.
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The fury of the Thomas fire made climate change real for me. That’s why I’m joining the Global Climate Strike on Friday.
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The climate crisis requires collective action on a massive scale, and the most potent political impediment to collective action comes from racial division.
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The homeowners of Hollister Ranch have, for decades, treated the coast as their own private beach. It’s not and never has been.
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How not to say the wrong thing
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The nightmare scenario of a government dominated by a nationalist-religious coalition has been averted.
Institutions like MIT might start out with an aversion to tainted money, but if the payout is big enough they will shift their conduct to protect their benefactor.
Trump’s attack on California’s authority to set air pollution rules would mean we’ll see fewer clean cars.
The College Student Right to Access Act would require California public university students on-campus access to the “abortion pill.” It’s on Gov. Newsom’s desk, and he should sign it.
Conditions in immigrant detention facilities are ideal for creating deadly flu strains.
Did you know it takes 5,000 gallons of water to make a T-shirt and jeans? Patt Morrison talks with Dana Thomas about her book “Fashionopolis.”
Democrats and Republicans both insist impossible policies are not only possible, but easy.
Divesting is less a moral imperative than risk-averse stewardship of the university’s endowment and pension fund.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh probably won’t be impeached over new allegations about his college sexual misbehavior, but they could keep Democrats fired up for 2020.
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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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During the Democratic primary debate, Joe Biden rambled, reminisced and generally sounded like your grandfather’s candidate.
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President Trump continues to flip-flop on what gun measures he would support in the wake of mass killings. Why? The NRA has him intimidated.
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Being gay and proud on a presidential stage takes guts. The first guy through the wall always gets bloody.
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Thursday’s debate among Democratic presidential hopefuls wasn’t a battle of ideas. The moderators wheeled the candidates from one topic to the next.
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Senate Republican leadership should allow the high-capacity magazine ban to be debated and voted upon.
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Trump preys upon a cognitive bug in our brains that scientists are just starting to understand — the psychology of overestimating perceived threat.
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There’s been an uptick in swearing among candidates for president. If it’s a strategy to attract younger and less religious voters, it may backfire partly because the profanity the candidates use may not have much impact.
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A group of idealists in Germany showed that even small efforts grounded in everyday virtues could make a difference.
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There are serious issues with allegations made against Brett Kavanaugh — and besides, those allegations involve supposed incidents from decades ago.
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NCAA athletes receive plenty of costly benefits paid by their schools, including scholarships, top-notch facilities and more.
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Saudi Arabia a large, wealthy country. If it wants to respond to recent attacks, it should do it without the U.S.
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People in Los Angeles might not like Trump, but that does not change the fact that despite our vast wealth, we let the homelessness crisis worsen.
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Trump is right not to respond immediately to attacks on oil facilities.
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It’s troubling to see L.A. County, which has positioned itself as a leader in the fight on homelessness, now wants to overturn a court decision that says you can’t criminalize homeless people on the streets who have nowhere else to go.
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Technological advances could one day claw back some of the carbon and other greenhouse gases we’ve already emitted. But it would be foolhardy to count on them.
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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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