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The Democratic nominee will face greater challenges than any president since F.D.R. We’re confident he’s up to the task.
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A brief history of our newspaper’s endorsements — and an explanation of what they mean.
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A vocal faction of Americans — some seeking high places — are trafficking in canards: 5G is deadly, COVID-19 is a hoax, blue state pedophiles roam the halls of Congress. No wonder they might also believe Tom Hanks — Tom Hanks! — is a cannibal.
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A COVID-19 vaccine doesn’t even exist yet, and already many people don’t trust it, thanks to the mixed messaging that has defined the White House’s response to the pandemic.
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There are psychological reasons Zoom school is so difficult. Luckily, science also gives us some solutions.
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Parolees should get their right to vote restored while they are on parole.
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The attorney general denounces prosecutors who act as ‘headhunters.’
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The trade body can shake its finger at the Trump administration and its improper tariffs, but good luck enforcing any sanctions.
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Trump’s myopic focus on forest management misses the big picture. Climate change is undeniably behind the worsening fires.
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There is, to my mind, a tragic arc that connects Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald J. Trump, one of endless war and relentless polarization and tumult.
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That strange, colored light is thickened by the true illness around us, a pandemic that limits our activities.
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Audio from Trump’s interviews with Bob Woodward about COVID-19 reveal what he knew, and what he lied about.
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Rural conservative patrols in Oregon have chalked up the wildfires to ‘antifa’ and are out scouting for ‘arsonists’ and ‘looters.’
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Gov. Gavin Newsom deserves praise for signing a bill that equalizes penalties for perpetrators of certain sex offenses against minors. That’s because he no doubt knew the political hazards of SB 145 — even though, on examination, it really ought to be a no-brainer.
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Maybe bougie food fantasies will accompany us all the way through the destruction of life as we know it?
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A vocal faction of Americans — some seeking high places — are trafficking in canards: 5G is deadly, COVID-19 is a hoax, blue state pedophiles roam the halls of Congress. No wonder they might also believe Tom Hanks — Tom Hanks! — is a cannibal.
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A COVID-19 vaccine doesn’t even exist yet, and already many people don’t trust it, thanks to the mixed messaging that has defined the White House’s response to the pandemic.
New research provides insight into the anti-democratic sentiments of Republicans. The findings are troublesome.
The lasting effects of COVID-19 on the heart are limited to a small subset of patients, studies show.
Fires are inevitable in the West, but widespread devastation doesn’t have to be. Here are concrete steps California can take to mitigate fire damage.
Best picture nominees for the Academy Awards will have to meet diversity standards by 2024. But real change will take more than abiding by new rules.
Trump’s Republican Party has embraced policies that alienate Latinos, repeating the fatal mistakes the GOP made in California with Proposition 187.
if allegations of his campaign finance misdeeds are correct, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy deserves Justice Department action.
We are already too partisan and divided. Eliminating the electoral college would magnify the discord.
Unless we act now, we will sacrifice the future of humanity for the greed of the few.
Grocery workers are at high risk for COVID-19. Essential workers need a seat at the table in public health regulations.
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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.
Our six-part series of editorials about the 45th president.
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Trump needed to make a list to show he was serious; Biden doesn’t
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A far-right nationalist in Norway has nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. It should be for literature, for all the fictions he has told.
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Gender reveal parties are regressive, antiquated and reinforce harmful gender stereotypes. And that’s just the ones that go right. Others start destructive fires.
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When the dust has settled and the TV cameras are gone, will white solidarity with black lives endure? History suggests skepticism.
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There are ways to reduce conflicts, but lecturing others on the correctness of your view isn’t one of them.
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A calm descends on a resident of Bishop during the coronavirus quarantine. But then smoke from the fires arrives.
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We need a 2020 version of the special commission that resolved the disputed election of 1876.
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Revelations in Bob Woodward’s new book have caught the president in a new batch of lies to the American public.
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Angering the people the department serves while stoking the pain fellow deputies is escalation, pure and simple. It has to end.
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In the face of facts and science, why do Trump supporters still take the position they do?
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Readers weigh in with ideas for fixing the electoral college without scrapping it entirely.
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Grocery workers are especially vulnerable to exposure to the coronavirus. Supermarket executives need to recognize that and ensure rules are enforced.
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The arrest and hogtying of a reporter, the childish and racist tweets by the sheriff’s spokesperson, the treatment of the families of people killed by deputies and the ongoing resistance to oversight by Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva all make a tense situation worse and demonstrate the need for even stronger sheriff oversight.
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Why should Californians have to accept an unjust expansion of Proposition 13 just to get a common-sense reform?
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The people of the L.A. County’s 2nd District need Holly Mitchell’s vision of and commitment to better justice, better health and smarter development.
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Trump’s maskless rallies are part of his own world where facts don’t matter, science is fantasy, and wildfires and COVID-19 conspire against him.
