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The comment is a reminder of the xenophobia that has often been the bedfellow of racism in America.
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It won’t help the U.S. economy recover if businesses that are trying to reopen or expand can’t do so because they can’t find the workers they need.
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Jeff Sessions’ comment on Trump’s Tulsa rally may be the saddest tweet from a politician in the medium’s short history.
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Hospital restrictions on visitors during the COVID-19 era keep away a crucial support system of family and friends.
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COVID-19 restrictions prevent lawyers from visiting clients in prison. Legislation could end the unjust policy that requires inmate-attorney emails to be monitored.
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There is no reason for Fort Bragg to cling to the name of a Confederate general, and not a very good one at that?
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Biden’s new strategy casts young people as naive social media addicts rather than serious constituents with a stake in government policy.
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Some conservatives want to make it harder for Big Tech to remove offensive content. New offensive pro-Trump ads show why that’s a bad idea.
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The Supreme Court’s ruling that the government botched how it sought to end DACA was a gift to President Trump’s campaign. And he’s turning it down.
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Republican senators knew Trump ‘did it.’ They acquitted him anyway.
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Pelosi has requested portraits of former speakers of the House be removed from the Capitol because they were part of the Confederacy. She should rethink that.
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DNA tests were ordered 18 months ago that could ascertain whether a death row inmate is innocent of a 1983 murder. Why don’t we have the results yet?
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Jeff Sessions’ comment on Trump’s Tulsa rally may be the saddest tweet from a politician in the medium’s short history.
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It won’t help the U.S. economy recover if businesses that are trying to reopen or expand can’t do so because they can’t find the workers they need.
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The comment is a reminder of the xenophobia that has often been the bedfellow of racism in America.
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The main concern of black people right now isn’t whether they’re standing three or six feet apart, but whether their sons, husbands, brothers and fathers will be murdered by cops.
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Surely we can demand better of our police than the plethora of killings of African Americans.
‘It was only much later in my life that I realized Father Hip’s relationship to me was, indeed, a paternal one.’
The George Floyd moment of conscience catches up to Juan de Onate, Spanish explorer and brutal colonial governor.
What he taught me about being a father still resonates: It’s not words, it’s actions.
Geoffrey Berman refused to go quietly, and that thwarted the Trump administration’s plans — at least temporarily.
The president has a pathological knack for making everything about himself — even the day that celebrates the end of slavery.
Wildland firefighters are facing a dangerous fire season and exposure to COVID-19. They deserve affordable year-round health insurance.
Quaker Oats may “bury” its racist Aunt Jemima brand, but the figure will survive in art that parodied the stereotype and turned it into one of power.
This year’s Juneteenth celebration is different: It comes as America wakes up to the illusion of the liberation of Black people.
On top of the strong possibility that the Tulsa rally could spread coronavirus far and wide, violence might be in the offing.
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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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Our six-part series of editorials about the 45th president.
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Black Lives Matter has long modeled what it would look like for Angelenos to live the values we purport to hold. It’s time for L.A. to finally step up.
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Demeaning caricatures of Black people have been a sad mainstay of consumer products. It’s time for them to go.
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Justice Alito and the archbishop of Los Angeles sound an alarm about a landmark Supreme Court decision.
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While the nation focuses on protests against police brutality, a series of violent incidents have occurred involving armed far-right extremists.
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Merriam-Webster’s decision to revise the definition of racism raises long-standing questions about the politics of dictionaries.
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People love to claim the 1st Amendment to protect speech they favor, but resist similar safeguards for expression they dislike.
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We have come to expect that Supreme Court decisions will reflect the country’s political polarization. Today’s ruling shows that’s not always true.
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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, written in 1964, didn’t change. Only our understanding of what the words “because of sex” implied all along.
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To the editor: The comedy show is back. (“Trump wanted big crowds at his comeback rally in Tulsa.
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Letters to the Editor: John Bolton tells us what we already know about Trump: He’s corrupt and inept
Letters to the Editor: John Bolton tells us what we already know about Trump: He’s corrupt and inept
John Bolton’s book will not reveal anything new about the president as much as it will provide more evidence of what people already know about him.
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In response to Gov. Newsom’s order on masks, an Orange County supervisor said something that shows how little she knows about COVID-19.
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That Congress has been unable to help the children of immigrants brought here illegally shows its glaring inability to solve major problems.
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Although completely dismantling school police forces could be a mistake, L.A. Unified should examine whether it needs all of its 344 armed and 95 unarmed officers.
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L.A.’s major housing problem is not the small number of homes sitting empty. It’s the shortage of housing affordable to middle- and low-income Angelenos.
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We need L.A. County’s Care First, Jails Last Alternatives to Incarceration program moving forward, fully funded.
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As heartening as the court’s decision is, DACA is, at best, a temporary solution to a broader problem that Congress has repeatedly failed to fix.
