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Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 has emboldened all sorts of improbable candidates to think they have a chance to win in 2020. This is not healthy.
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There’s a good argument for treating repeat criminals differently than first-timers. But tacking on more time in multiple ways, all at the same time, was overkill.
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No matter what Trump says, he isn’t our ‘favorite all time president.’
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Uber has worsened traffic. Airbnb the housing crisis. What unintended consequences will result from allowing scooters to monetize sidewalks and public spaces?More Coverage
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It has been a half-century since we first went to the moon. The feeling today is a combination of pride and anxiety, patriotism and ambivalence.
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Loraine Lundquist has outlined a vision for a more inclusive, sustainable Los Angeles.
Enter the Fray
Top Senate Democrats signal a willingness to end all filibusters if they reclaim the majority. It doesn’t take a psychic to see why they’d regret that decision.
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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 win reelection, Trump needs to make Democrats look more radical than he is.
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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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No matter what Trump says, he isn’t our ‘favorite all time president.’
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I’m a pediatrician, yet I was ignorant about signs of gender dysphoria, including in my own daughter.
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Paul D. Ryan is getting the hate treatment — again.
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Everyone needs to pay their fair share of taxes, including the cannabis industry.
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Everybody’s heard of the My Lai massacre — March 16, 1968, 50 years ago today — but not many know about the man who stopped it: Hugh Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot.
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Trump is tripling down on racism and xenophobia as a path to remaining in the White House, and having his policy initiatives blocked or his Twitter rants attacked is at worst irrelevant and possibly quite helpful.
Donald Trump can’t take being called out, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Pelosi can.
Broader sex trafficking laws are being used against people like Jeffrey Epstein, but their elasticity may also pose problems.
Education cultivates resiliency in migrant kids. Its lack in detention centers is one more way Trump is ignoring the law.
Reining in federal spending is no longer on the table now that there’s a Republican in the White House.
Homeless people should have a legal right to shelter and a legal obligation to utilize it.
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.
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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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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 a good day, I’m almost fluent in Chinese.
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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.
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I thought I hated Nixon. I thought I hated Reagan. I thought I hated Bush and Cheney.
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We’re lonely because we’ve replaced human interaction with social media addiction. A national effort is needed to overcome this public health crisis.
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Many asylum seekers have no intention of returning home if their claims are denied. Trump’s “remain in Mexico” policy recognizes this fact.
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Though nostalgia is taking hold 50 years after Apollo 11, reader letters from July 1969 portray a country that might feel very familiar to us today.
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If Congress had fixed our immigration system years ago, Trump would not have needed to make a rule change rejecting almost all asylum claims.
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The national minimum wage is way too low, but don’t overlook the trade-offs of raising it.
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MS-13 has deep roots in both El Salvador and Los Angeles. The two places have a troubling link that can’t be severed by walls or deportations.
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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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