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Sen. Dianne Feinstein has stepped down from a leadership role on the Judiciary Committee. Her performance during the panel’s Supreme Court hearing and her cordial congratulations to Chairman Lindsey Graham rankled Democrats and activists.
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The Trump administration chose a salmon fishery over corporate profits. It probably didn’t hurt that Donald Trump Jr. opposed the project.
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In oral arguments, conservative justices have revealed a desire to find compromises that could satisfy both sides of the partisan divide.
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Two runoff elections could give Democrats a Senate majority.
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Our plague year is an opportunity to see, at last, one of the hidden truths of America’s founding: the great suffering of the Native people.
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Pooled COVID testing — testing several people at once with one lab sample — holds a lot of promise for certain situations and could drastically reduce the cost and strain on facilities involved in individual testing.
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President Trump is claiming victory even as he enables the transition to President-elect Joe Biden.
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A lesson in why it’s silly to fixate on who appointed a federal judge.
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As George Costanza famously said on ‘Seinfeld’: “It’s not a lie if you believe it.” Trump supporters seem to be operating on the same principle
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The energy I’ve seen from young Black people who went to the polls came from a desire to oust a far-right president who shows no respect for American democracy. But that energy cannot be taken for granted.
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Alito’s speech may not have been unethical, but it was injudicious
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Will Trump stick around to witness the swearing-in of Joe Biden as his successor? Or will he skip it and tweet from self-exile at Mar-A-Lago?
Here are the Los Angeles Times’ editorial board endorsements for president, California ballot measures and more.
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What you do — how we ALL act in the next six weeks — will make the difference between an inconvenient fall and a disaster that will take years to overcome.
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In the holiday spirit, U.S. families will come together to debate the future of America, and white evangelicals will continue to cast no stone toward Trump.
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To pretend that there is anything approaching moral equivalency between Joe Biden and Donald Trump represents an appalling failure to exercise ethical judgment.
After 9/11, Rudy Giuliani tried to extend his term as New York mayor despite term limits, and failed. He apparently learned nothing.
This could be the weirdest Thanksgiving ever since random family and friends will show up via Zoom, and they’ll all be starved for human interaction.
The repeated allegations with little proof is reminiscent of the McCarthy era.
Nursing is among America’s most trusted professions. Yet not a single nurse is on Joe Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board. There’s time to change that.
The U.S. foundation of democracy can withstand Trump. But his tactics will be imitated by leaders in countries where they are more likely to succeed.
My normally crowded Thanksgiving will have only two people this year due to COVID-19. But we’re making the best of it.
James Madison was right. The electoral college is a shoddy piece of work that keeps coming back to haunt us.
When I get most disillusioned with the system we have, I remember the people I’ve met around the world who are struggling to gain rights we consider basic.
A red-state Republican and a blue-state Democrat discuss the state of politics and the world.
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As the country grapples with the role of systemic racism, The Times has committed to examining its past.
All presidential elections are uniquely consequential, but a good case can be made that the next one is the most important of our lives. The time has come to undo the great mistake of 2016 and drive Trump out of office at the ballot box.
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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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Ideas and commentary on building a livable, sustainable Los Angeles.
A six-part series from the editorial board on the humanitarian crisis unfolds in our streets.
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The Catholic Church didn’t take abuse of vulnerable adults seriously.
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Democrats can either protect Americans from coronavirus or not. They can prevent catastrophic global warming or not.
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As of Sunday, Trump and his lawyers were 0 for 10 in their pursuit of court-facilitated battleground victories.
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While the nation’s attention was consumed and our president becoming more unhinged and despotic, coronavirus cases hit record highs.
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The highway between the financial industry and high-level Washington appointments has harmed ordinary Americans and benefitted elites.
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Thanksgiving is the mother of all family dinners and a potent ritual. Figuring out how to celebrate it during the pandemic requires inventing alternative traditions.
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It shouldn’t surprise anyone: What moved Latino voters in 2020 was grassroots organizing on local issues and needs, not narrow partisan agendas.
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As Trump’s lame-duck period drags on, General Services Administration leader Emily Murphy has refused to declare that her patron is in fact lame.
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The decline of social science in schools because of the No Child Left Behind Law may have helped fuel the problem of “truth decay.”
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Readers respond to The Times’ full page of pro-Trump letters and the follow-up page of responses. Most express appreciation for the paper’s efforts.
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Seniors can already avoid many risky activities. Therefore, middle-age workers should be vaccinated against COVID-19 first.
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President Trump isn’t getting what he wants, and like a spoiled child he is ruining his toy -- the presidency -- because he cannot keep it.
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Black women flexed their muscle and got Biden elected. It was an exercise in hope and political determination. It paid off.
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Oregon is the first state to eliminate simple drug possession as a crime and to adopt the policy that drug treatment should be voluntary.
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Could shutting down outdoor dining have the unintended consequence of driving people inside and lead to more cases? We’re worried it will.
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The Trump administration’s two new rules for prescription drugs could save money for taxpayers and many consumers, but it doesn’t have the courage of its convictions.
