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BRUNSWICK, GA - NOVEMBER 18: Demonstrators march near the Glynn County Courthouse after the adjournment of daily court proceedings in the trial for the killers of Ahmaud Arbery on November 18, 2021 in Brunswick, Georgia. Greg McMichael, his son Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan are charged with the February, 2020 slaying of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Op-Ed: The non-victory victory in the Ahmaud Arbery case

Critical as the legal win is, it is also an admission that the fatal shooting of a Black man by white men determined to see him as a threat should never have happened at all.

Editorial: California got rid of gerrymandering — don’t cave now
Op-Ed: Latino communities can redefine American generosity
Guerrero: Don’t shield U.S. gun makers from liability for Mexico’s gun violence
Nicholas Goldberg: Are the school districts that “defunded the police” coming to regret it already?
Op-Ed: California may ban new oil wells near homes. Let’s eliminate the existing problem while we’re at it

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Op-Ed: The non-victory victory in the Ahmaud Arbery case
Letters to the Editor: Do conservative pundits finally quitting Fox News deserve praise?
Letters to the Editor: Why Eric Garcetti was exactly the wrong mayor for L.A. during a crisis
Column: Want to see the big lie die? Take it to court

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Video letter: Everyone hates leaf blowers. We have laws banning them. So why are they everywhere?

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Op-Ed: What gratitude looks like now

Things could be worse; it’s all about how you look at it.

A breeding tom turkey mills around on a sunny morning at Raymond's Turkey Farm in Methuen, Mass. Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Column: Let’s talk turkey (not politics)

Op-Ed: Justice is done for Ahmaud Arbery, but a legacy of racial injustice can’t be answered in one verdict

This undated photo provided by the Western Rivers Conservancy shows lupines on the Adler Ranch in Big Sur on the coast of California south of Monterey. A Native American tribe has reclaimed a small part of ancestral lands on California's Big Sur coast that were lost to Spanish colonial settlement nearly 250 years ago. The Mercury News reports the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County closed escrow on 1,199 acres about 5 miles inland from the ocean that was part of a $4.5 million deal involving the state and the Western Rivers Conservancy. It marks the first restoration of any lands to the tribe. The land encompasses old-growth redwoods, oak woodlands, meadows and endangered steelhead trout. (Doug Steakley/Western Rivers Conservancy via AP)

Op-Ed: To address past injustices against Native people, we must move beyond renaming holidays

EL PASO, TEXAS--JUNE 21, 2019--A group of about 50 men, women and children are led by U.S. border patrol agents and police to a holding area after they crossed into the U.S. to seek asylum on Wednesday, June 19, 2019. Texas is sending an additional 1,000 Nation Guard troops to the border to help with the increase in migrant families crossing the border and asking for asylum. Despite the border wall and wire, there is a gap in the wall in downtown El Paso that makes entry easy. It also funnels the migrants to an area where U.S border patrol agents can take them into custody. With the Rio Grande River at a very low level, a large group of migrants crosses from Juarez, Mexico to El Paso, Texas with little effort. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

Op-Ed: Continuing Trump’s pretext to block asylum claims, Biden defies the law and good politics

Granderson: Why ‘King Richard’ brought me to tears

Op-Ed: Surging overdose deaths are a tragic racial justice issue

Op-Ed: We send back 30% of what we buy online. How our return culture alters the supply chain

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Op-Ed: How U.S.-China ‘competition’ could lead both countries to disaster
Op-Ed: It’s autumn on my farm: Learning to do chores in the dark and keeping up a sense of wonder
Second Opinion: There’s only one real solution for supply chain problems: Stop consuming so much
Op-Ed: California needs to keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open to meet its climate goals

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor: Nuclear energy may not emit carbon, but it isn’t ‘clean’
Letters to the Editor: If counties want to send COVID patients to L.A., they need to boost vaccination
Readers give thanks: If you want inspiration on Thanksgiving, you’ve found it
Letters to the Editor: Why Black Americans never took the Ahmaud Arbery guilty verdict for granted

Editorials

Editorial: After all the sacrifices in 2020, a little Thanksgiving joy in 2021
Opinion: Who didn’t feel like Arbery’s father when he uttered his outburst over the verdicts?
Justice for Arbery, at last
Editorial: Are Americans the Thanksgiving dinner guests, or the hosts? Both, of course

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Video Op-Ed: A trans athlete’s guide to media coverage of trans athletes

Rook Campbell (he/him, they/them) is a swimmer and a trans guy.

Op-Ed: A trans athlete’s guide to writing about trans athletes
Here’s a handy rule of thumb for sports journalists: Let people describe themselves.

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Editorial: Another COVID Thanksgiving — sigh
Editorial: L.A. tripped over its duty to fix the city’s broken sidewalks
Letters to the Editor: L.A.'s homelessness strategy focuses too much on where unhoused people can’t be
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Letters to the Editor: Will we let fossil fuels destroy California’s giant sequoia?
Letters to the Editor: How leaf blowers ruin our air and our sense of community
Jonah Goldberg on how Trump changed the GOP for good
Letters to the Editor: We’re letting the 2nd Amendment destroy us. The Kyle Rittenhouse verdict proves it
Editorial: Supply chain issues affect almost everything, but surge in port pollution threatens our lungs