Editorials

The Trump administration declined to grant “threatened” status to Joshua trees, despite scientific studies detailing the dangers to its limited desert habitat that could decimate the species by century’s end.

It’s beyond outrageous that President Trump apparently goaded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into making that decision.

If we want L.A.'s mountain lions to survive and find new territory, we need to make crossing roads easier for them.

Politicians are attacking an independent redistricting commission in Michigan. Its outcome could have dire effects on California’s own citizen panel

Andrew Yang, a tech entrepreneur running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, met recently with members of the Los Angeles Times editorial board to discuss his candidacy.

The state attorney general reaches a settlement with a Northern California public school district accused of intentional segregation.

The Trump administration’s revisions to the Endangered Species Act are an unconscionable assault on the environment and the species that we should be protecting, not destroying.

A new rule that would punish legal immigrants for using some public benefit programs, such as Medicare, is just another step by the Trump administration to make it harder for immigrants to get a foothold.

The EPA’s decision to lifts its veto of a massive open-pit mine in Alaska is a gift to the mining industry, and a threat to the environment and salmon fishing.

An independent watchdog within the California Public Utilities Commission has accused the Southern California Gas of using ratepayer dollars to create a front group to lobby against policies designed to reduce greenhouse gases from homes and buildings — and then lying about it.

Violence by white nationalists can be combated without a new federal law.

Some Republicans want Trump to cut taxes only for people with long-term investments. It’s not just fiscally irresponsible, it’s bad policy and quite possibly unlawful.