Innovators Unplugged
“Whatever you have an idea about, just do it and don’t think of what it’s going to be in the end. Focus on what are the first steps you’re going to take to achieve that.”
Aug. 1, 2024
Opinion
A fictional comet’s portent-filled appearance brings together a grieving widow, the comet’s discoverer and a group of true believers in Australia.
July 10, 2024
Books
With ‘We Burn Daylight,’ Bret Anthony Johnston tries to humanize the Waco siege, often remembered in sensational headlines.
July 26, 2024
Lifestyle
L.A.’s wellness crowd says it’s amazing. The EPA says its filter should be registered as a pesticide. But the true story of the Berkey gets even weirder.
July 25, 2024
Entertainment & Arts
What we know about past and present members of Shekinah Church and talent management company 7M Films who were featured in the Netflix docuseries ‘Dancing for the Devil.’
June 20, 2024
World & Nation
North Koreans are required to wear pins with images of the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung, or his son Kim Jong Il. Now the current leader is expanding his own personality cult.
July 3, 2024
California
Recovering at USC Medical Center, Paul Morantz was wheeled out in his hospital bed to face the press. He had no doubt the snake had come from Synanon, the drug rehab group founded 20 years earlier by a magnetic pitchman named Charles Dederich.
May 29, 2024
Watch L.A.
June 7, 2024
In her debut novel, J. Nicole Jones draws from our chaotic reality to create a dystopia where a woman awaits judgment for refusing to conform.
May 6, 2024
Letters to the Editor
A reader whose cult was covered by Bob Pool went from chanting against The Times’ reporter to drawing inspiration from him.
May 2, 2024