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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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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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Democrats and Republicans both insist impossible policies are not only possible, but easy.
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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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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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Joe Biden fails (again) to strongly defend Obama on deportations
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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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Do you understand the causes and effects of climate change? Here is what you can do to help.
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Democrats and Republicans both insist impossible policies are not only possible, but easy.
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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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Divesting is less a moral imperative than risk-averse stewardship of the university’s endowment and pension fund.
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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.
Senate Republican leadership should allow the high-capacity magazine ban to be debated and voted upon.
Trump preys upon a cognitive bug in our brains that scientists are just starting to understand — the psychology of overestimating perceived threat.
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.
A group of idealists in Germany showed that even small efforts grounded in everyday virtues could make a difference.
Reject Jonathan Franzen’s “we’re doomed” attitude. There’s plenty we can do to prevent more death and suffering from climate breakdown.
If we mirror the public health approach to automobile safety, the U.S. can make similar progress in reducing firearm injury.
Elizabeth Warren is the standout candidate in the Democratic presidential field.
Vince Gill’s new album, “Okie,” reclaims a derogatory label that was used to shame Dust Bowl migrants.
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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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President Trump decided not to index capital gains for inflation after all. It’s a rare and welcome show of restraint.
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Is California’s GOP so desperate that it would risk public safety on vaccinations? Seems so.
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John Bolton wasn’t the only Iran hard-liner in the Trump administration.
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The Trump administration wants to move a key Bureau of Land Management position to Reno, and another to Salt Lake City. Why? In Washington, out of sight is out of mind.
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America has often granted temporary protected status to people whose countries suffered catastrophic disasters. Yet after Dorian, Trump would rather demonize and deport Bahamians.
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Universal health coverage won’t necessarily fill Medicaid’s public health functions.
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Like so much of California’s approach to climate policy, the Tropical Forest Standard is an experiment worth trying.
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Too often, climate change debates are based on faulty assumptions.
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It’s more important for college students today to communicate clearly and think critically than to be able to do high-level math.
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Better than performing community service and spending 14 days in prison would be for Felicity Huffman to pay for another student’s college education.
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An “ordinary” man with solar panels, a hybrid electric car, a bike and native landscaping says if he can make changes to stop climate change, so can others.
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Impeach Trump and put all the evidence of the president’s corruption before the Senate. Then, let’s hear what Republicans have to say.
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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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The Los Angeles Times editorial board has written about climate change for years. Here’s why we thought this was the right moment for a bigger, broader series of editorials on the subject.
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Developed nations emit the most greenhouse gases, while poor countries suffer the worst consequences of the greenhouse effect. We must help them.
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Will California show the nation how to take on the enormous problem of single-use plastic or will it chicken out under threats from an industry that’s happy to continue to fill the world with old water bottles, plastic food wrappers and countless other pieces of disposable plastic?
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