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Training teachers to recognize the sound of gunfire but not the distress signs of children spiraling toward violence is a bleak, wasteful affair.
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Democratic candidates have put out countless plans and policy statements. Voters beware! Do not be beguiled by patently unachievable ideas designed to win primaries. -
There is no issue more important than driving Donald Trump out of office at the ballot box in 2020.
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With an incumbent as dangerous as Donald Trump, there’s too much riding on the outcome of the election to risk the post-primary infighting we saw in 2016.
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Amid the impeachment inquiry, it’s important not to forget the full sweep of the damage Donald Trump has done, and continues to do.
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Are Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren — and Donald Trump — too old to be president of the United States?
Enter the Fray
Trump has shown us the dangers of electing an authoritarian president. We should be wary of Democratic candidates eager to use executive action.
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Some Democrats are appealing to the same sense of abandonment and powerlessness among voters that Donald Trump played to in 2016.
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Kevin McAleenan was the fourth Homeland Security chief in less than three years of the Trump administration. How many more can Trump squeeze in?
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John Bolton and others were apparently worried that Rudolph Giuliani’s work in Ukraine would blow up in Trump’s face. They got that one right.
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Beto O’Rourke would penalize churches that oppose same-sex marriage.
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A House committee’s interest in Trump’s financial records may be more about politics than policy. But that’s no reason to hamstring Congress’ ability to provide oversight.
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There is no issue more important than driving Donald Trump out of office at the ballot box in 2020.
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Amid the impeachment inquiry, it’s important not to forget the full sweep of the damage Donald Trump has done, and continues to do.
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Devin Nunes, a co-sponsor of the Stop Frivolous Lawsuits Act, seems to have discovered a new fundraising tool: frivolous lawsuits.
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Mitt and I and every other Mormon kid in the 1950s heard the “White Horse” prophecy, which says the Constitution will be “hanging by a thread,” and a Mormon will save it.
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Training teachers to recognize the sound of gunfire but not the distress signs of children spiraling toward violence is a bleak, wasteful affair.
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On Saturday, Boris Johnson adopted a tone of statesmanlike politesse in his appeal for a yes vote on his Brexit deal in the House of Commons. But the roller coaster ride continues.
Buttigieg’s strategy-and-organization approach sometimes fails to deliver the dopamine blast that debate watchers seem to live for.
Tashpolat Tiyip, a renowned scholar and geographer, has been sentenced to death in a secret trial by the Chinese government, which has made no charges or evidence public.
A brief cease-fire in the military invasion of Syria won’t solve a conflict created by a century of Turkish oppression of the Kurds.
As past impeachment investigations have shown, a president’s fate sometimes hinges on a single sentence. Trump’s may, too.
Substance abuse is the primary reason for the foster care crisis in this country, but cities and states don’t make that clear. A Muppet named Karli corrects the record.
The Supreme Court changed one important rule this year. These changes would open things up even more.
Attacking the president on style rather than substance makes liberals, progressives and Never Trumpers seem petty, unlikable and effete.
The right to keep a gun can be regulated in numerous ways, as is true for all constitutional rights.
Projects
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’s response to the impeachment inquiry is to push the narrative that one of the biggest bullies in modern American memory is a victim.
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Elizabeth Warren says she was fired in the 1970s because of pregnancy discrimination. That’s not hard to believe. It was a problem then, and still is.
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A new poll shows a majority of Americans back the House impeachment inquiry. Trump’s response? Bar a top diplomat from testifying and blame Democrats.
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The South Carolina Republican plans to give President Trump’s attorney Rudolph Giuliani a forum to air “concerns” about Ukrainian corruption. It’s clearly aimed at helping Trump, but it might wind up being a good thing.
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Kenneth Pomeranz, a professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Chicago, explains the current Chinese outrage at the NBA.
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An outdated view of who counts as Asian prevents Kamala Harris and Tulsi Gabbard from being seen as Asian American.
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Nepotism: It’s the oldest political grift in the world. Whether you’re a Biden in Ukraine, a Trump in China, a Clinton, Bush or McCain on network television: You got your job because you share your daddy’s name.
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The founders didn’t anticipate a president or that leader’s allies would be so unwilling to act in the best interests of the U.S. and the rule of law.
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It’s in the pharmacy profession’s interest to have new graduates retake the state licensing exam, even if it delays some careers.
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Pete Buttigieg has a mixed record as mayor of his mid-sized city in Indiana, but he’s getting media attention at the expense of other candidates.
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Donald Trump is the president, and a president should always choose his words (and spelling) carefully.
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For about two weeks, L.A. Times letter writers have been going back and forth on the loyalty among evangelical Christians to President Trump.
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Trump’s racism is a visible expression of bigger, older, deeper problems. He is a symptom rather than a root cause.
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The single most important issue in 2020 is ending the misrule of Donald Trump.
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The new version of a Brexit deal is still worse than no Brexit.
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Two presumably loyal aides to President Trump painted an alarming picture Thursday of how he and his personal lawyer, Rudoph W. Giuliani, sought to pressure Ukraine to help with two politically oriented investigations.
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