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News Commentary

Los Angeles, CA. June 8, 2025 - National Guard are stationed at the Metropolitan Detention Center, MDC, in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 8, 2025. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times)

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Arellano: Trump wants L.A. to set itself on fire. Let’s rebel smarter

Throwing cinder blocks at California Highway Patrol cars from a freeway overpass? Ripping out the pink tables and benches from Gloria Molina Grand Park? That’s supposed to keep immigrant families safe and defeat Trump?

People fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta's Elk Slough near Courtland, Calif.

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Skelton: Newsom’s power play on the Delta tunnel

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 09: Jared Isaacman, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator, leaves following his Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 09, 2025 in Washington, DC. Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and close associate of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, previously chartered two private astronaut flights to orbit including the all-civilian American "space tourist" Inspiration4 mission. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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Hiltzik: Trump’s NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wipe out its future

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Chabria: The insurrection that wasn’t, and other Trump fantasies

Los Angeles, CA - May 31: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speaks at the Calif. Democratic convention at the Anaheim Convention Center on Saturday, May 31, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times)

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Chabria: Democrats are busy bashing themselves. Is it needed, or just needy?

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Chabria: ICE arrested a California union leader. Does Trump understand what that means?

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Lopez: Three years away from the Olympics, L.A. is tripping over hurdles and trying to play catchup

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Chabria: At Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial, the women testifying are on trial too

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Arellano: Hegseth’s move on USNS Harvey Milk is a stain on military’s ‘warrior ethos’

Sports Voices

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Plaschke: I’m fighting Parkinson’s one punch at a time
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Hernández: Can Clayton Kershaw contribute to Dodgers’ title chase? ‘I’m gonna bet on him’
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Shaikin: Dodgers have lots of stars. Why Zach Neto should be Angels’ lone All-Star

Food Voices

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Commentary: Will tariffs threaten the diversity of L.A. menus? Spiking ingredient prices have chefs scrambling
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Have menu fatigue? Enter another dimension at a Santa Ana industrial park
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This dumpling reveals all at a Turkish restaurant like no other in L.A.

Culture Voices

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Commentary: A mother’s plea to Trump: If you want to encourage a baby boom, give families a break
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Commentary: In his quest for cultural dominance, Trump threatens what makes America great
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‘The Mortician’ revisits Pasadena’s Lamb Funeral Home and a family’s ghoulish crimes

Entertainment Voices

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Hugh Jackman brings jokes, drama and John Denver to opening night at the Hollywood Bowl
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‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ CNN live broadcast brings George Clooney’s play to the masses
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Another act of vandalism in downtown L.A. as Robert O’Hara defaces ‘Hamlet’ at the Taper

Opinion Voices

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Abcarian: Did the MyPillow guy, clinging to the Big Lie, defame a Dominion exec?
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Granderson: Voters who don’t vote? This is one way democracy can die, by 20 million cuts
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Calmes: The ‘Trump Doctrine’ revealed

Letters to the Editor

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Letters to the Editor: When it comes to Trump immigration policy, ‘the chaos and cruelty are the point’
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Letters to the Editor: Don’t get distracted by the President Trump-Elon Musk breakup circus
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Letters to the Editor: Trump’s looming cuts to high-speed rail project represent a ‘backward vision’

Editorials

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Editorial: To understand homelessness, listen to homeless people. Here’s what I learned
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Editorial: Stop finding ways to kill the Venice Dell homeless housing project and get it built instead
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Editorial: For California towns with a bear problem, using dogs to hunt is no solution

Contributors

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Contributor: Federalizing the state National Guard is a chilling push past the law
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Contributor: California’s long history of National Guard overreaction to peaceful protesters
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Contributor: Donald Trump’s plan for pirate mining