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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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Reject Jonathan Franzen’s “we’re doomed” attitude. There’s plenty we can do to prevent more death and suffering from climate breakdown.
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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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If we mirror the public health approach to automobile safety, the U.S. can make similar progress in reducing firearm injury.
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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.
Enter the Fray
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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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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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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Reject Jonathan Franzen’s “we’re doomed” attitude. There’s plenty we can do to prevent more death and suffering from climate breakdown.
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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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Elizabeth Warren is the standout candidate in the Democratic presidential field.
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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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Vince Gill’s new album, “Okie,” reclaims a derogatory label that was used to shame Dust Bowl migrants.
America has often granted temporary protected status to people whose countries suffered catastrophic disasters. Yet after Dorian, Trump would rather demonize and deport Bahamians.
Universal health coverage won’t necessarily fill Medicaid’s public health functions.
Like so much of California’s approach to climate policy, the Tropical Forest Standard is an experiment worth trying.
Too often, climate change debates are based on faulty assumptions.
MIT professor Sinan Aral explains how taking four basic steps could help us explain the effect of social media manipulation on our election.
Primary debates could make voters more attached to their own preferred candidates and less willing to rally around the eventual nominee.
A discredited theory, rooted in notions of white racial superiority, brought us the term “Caucasian.” It’s time to abandon it.
The new book “She Said” is an indictment of a system that allowed Harvey Weinstein to sexually assault and harass women without consequence for decades.
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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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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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The recent death of the 405 Freeway is a sad illustration of how treacherous the L.A. landscape can be for mountain lions.
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San Francisco supervisors can’t “declare” that the NRA is a terrorist group
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Three short takeaways from a very long evening at the CNN climate town hall.
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Democrats like Biden want to return America to ‘normal.’ But normal wasn’t great for most voters.
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Trump has declared war on Democrats, and wartime presidents command loyalty.
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The Afghanistan peace deal has been shelved, but U.S. forces may withdraw anyway. Either way, we won’t look back.
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With skyrocketing rents, more people like me are moving into our vehicles and joining the homeless population. Cities aren’t making it any easier for us.
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President Trump missed a golden political opportunity when he refused temporary protected status of the victims of Hurricane Dorian.
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The presidents wants to ban flavored e-cigarettes because he believes people are dying from vaping. What about gun violence?
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It’s ridiculous and even dangerous to bash lawyers who worked for Harvey Weinstein in responding to sexual assault allegations.
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Medicare for all is not simply expanding Medicare to all people, regardless of age, but covering all Americans from birth. Why would we need Medicaid?
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The spineless school bureaucrats who fired tennis coach Aaron Persky because of his lenient ruling in a sex assault case when he was a judge is helping turn the quest for justice into mob rule, the law into a popularity contest and the independent judiciary into an endangered species.
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The Supreme Court ruling letting President Trump effectively deny asylum to Central Americans plays with the lives and safety of desperate migrants.
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The surest way to end Trump’s presidency is at the ballot box
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Companies know that many communities are hungry for jobs and economic development, and online retailers are playing cities against each other to try and get the biggest tax break. The public gets shortchanged.
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