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557f290ea4edee5f7bde9b1d0eddcd06 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-29/democrats-republicans-trump-walsh-never-trumpers | Op-Ed: Democrats cling to the myth that Trump is an affront to GOP values. In fact, he embodies them | Op-Ed: Democrats cling to the myth that Trump is an affront to GOP values. In fact, he embodies them
Democrats foolishly wasted the first two years of Trump’s presidency waiting for Republicans to see the light. They hoped for a savior from behind enemy lines, cheering in turn as new candidates for the role came along:... |
4660186585065a170bf9bcd7eac821d6 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-29/harvard-freshman-denied-immigration | Letters to the Editor: A Harvard freshman was sent back to Lebanon. Are we trying to create enemies? | Letters to the Editor: A Harvard freshman was sent back to Lebanon. Are we trying to create enemies?
To the editor: This would be the appropriate response by President Trump in response to incoming Harvard freshman Ismail Ajjawi being sent back to Lebanon after trying to enter the U.S. with a visa at Boston Logan Inter... |
985b7ee1c1ac10b21247439ff4c55d3d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-29/people-first-language-criminal-justice | Letters to the Editor: How the language of justice is dehumanizing and counterproductive | Letters to the Editor: How the language of justice is dehumanizing and counterproductive
To the editor: As someone who works with victims of crime, I believe that the use of person-first language is absolutely essential. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors calling for the adoption of language guidelines in the city’... |
a6cfd2b21551b6bc79af66b0de2dea8e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-30/islamic-state-afghanistan-taliban | Editorial: The presence of Islamic State in Afghanistan isn’t a reason to stop talking to the Taliban | Editorial: The presence of Islamic State in Afghanistan isn’t a reason to stop talking to the Taliban
Once-unthinkable negotiations between the United States and representatives of the Taliban have been making progress and could soon result in an agreement paving the way for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanist... |
aab690e8b25458cec06b2212ce24b335 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-05/joe-biden-black-voters-woke-liberals | Letters to the Editor: No, Joe Biden isn’t the overwhelming choice among people of color | Letters to the Editor: No, Joe Biden isn’t the overwhelming choice among people of color
To the editor: Columnist Jonah Goldberg implies that black voters’ conservatism and superior pragmatism will lead former Vice President Joe Biden to triumph against his more liberal Democratic presidential primary opponents who “pa... |
6a54ff9dfe1f941d19ba7130ae8c7504 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-27/terrifying-decision-not-to-charge-the-cop-in-the-costco-shooting | Letters to the Editor: The terrifying decision not to charge the cop in the Costco shooting | Letters to the Editor: The terrifying decision not to charge the cop in the Costco shooting
To the editor: The inability of the grand jury in Riverside County to indict an off-duty Los Angeles Police Department cop who killed an intellectually disabled man after being attacked by him is just another example of the over... |
aab40c4c7eb3b7fc81efb9b8dc1f24e3 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-01/costco-shooting-20-feet-away-gun-corona | Letters to the Editor: If only the off-duty cop at Costco hadn’t had a gun | Letters to the Editor: If only the off-duty cop at Costco hadn’t had a gun
To the editor: The attorney for an off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer who shot and killed a man in Costco after a brief physical confrontation said his client “had no choice but to use deadly force” (“Costco shooting: LAPD officer wa... |
04dc4e6839bc489b0bbd9daaa1128700 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-02/botham-jean-guilty-costco-shooting | Editorial: Finally, a deadly police shooting is found to be beyond the pale | Editorial: Finally, a deadly police shooting is found to be beyond the pale
At least we now know that an off-duty police officer can’t walk into someone else’s apartment, shoot him dead and then successfully claim self-defense because she mistakenly thought she was killing an intruder in her own home.
Instead, a Dallas... |
0313d822540f6d537239da03ed68f48f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-02/jamal-khashoggi-saudi-arabia-killing-mohammad-bin-salman | Opinion: Trump and money are shielding Saudi Arabia from accountability for Khashoggi’s killing | Opinion: Trump and money are shielding Saudi Arabia from accountability for Khashoggi’s killing
Following the brutal killing of Saudi dissident and Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi at Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, one year ago, the Saudi government became something of a toxic commodity in Ame... |
0f2dce6e824f293b3f640dfca8368c4f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-04/meghan-markle-prince-harry-royals-tabloid-racism | Opinion: Meghan Markle vs. the tabloid mob | Opinion: Meghan Markle vs. the tabloid mob
Brexit is roiling Britain. Prince Andrew has been accused by a woman of abusing her as a teenager in Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex exploitation network. Yet the British tabloids are obsessed by another royal: Meghan Markle, the most high-profile woman of color in Britain.
Why Ma... |
71baf630e9413d65106b3ee595918468 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-06/diving-arctic-climate-change-iceberg?fbclid=IwAR06UAsfVXWmmUiDr44QWE7YKc1C88WlOA-UBgYKnHc7YbJPZafiBs03SsA | Opinion: I am a diver who documents climate change in the Arctic. And I am running out of time | Opinion: I am a diver who documents climate change in the Arctic. And I am running out of time
Nearly 20 years ago, I led a National Geographic diving team that made the first cave dives inside the largest floating piece of ice ever seen on our planet. The B-15 iceberg had calved from an ice shelf in Antarctica, and we... |
fe96a004cd49f168daacd3de522e564e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-07/supreme-court-unanimous-jury-louisiana-oregon-laws | Opinion: Real justice requires unanimous juries for criminal convictions | Opinion: Real justice requires unanimous juries for criminal convictions
In 1983, a jury convicted Archie Williams for the 1982 rape and stabbing of a woman in her home in Baton Rouge, La. No physical evidence tied Williams to the crime, but 11 of the jurors were persuaded that Williams was the assailant based on the v... |
e4c24817bdfb18c2d821f01b21e773eb | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-10/garcetti-c40-climate-change-mayors-bus-bike | Editorial: Fighting climate change globally takes political courage at home, Mayor Garcetti | Editorial: Fighting climate change globally takes political courage at home, Mayor Garcetti
As Mayor Eric Garcetti takes on his latest challenge, he should remember this simple mantra: Think globally, act locally.
Garcetti was elected this week to head the C40 Cities Climate Leadership group, a network of cities around... |
5e04bae4596ddd9dac6d56566e746dc3 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-10/unanimous-jury-verdicts-supreme-court | Letters to the Editor: If jury verdicts must be unanimous, should Supreme Court decisions? | Letters to the Editor: If jury verdicts must be unanimous, should Supreme Court decisions?
To the editor: UC Irvine School of Law professor Henry Weinstein makes a strong case for the value of unanimous verdicts, which, he said, “have been a common requirement in Anglo American jurisprudence for hundreds of years.” His... |
6743dcdcea501c705e6cd7c64f648434 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-17/supreme-court-transparency-television-rules | Opinion: The Supreme Court shrouds itself in secrecy. That needs to end | Opinion: The Supreme Court shrouds itself in secrecy. That needs to end
On the eve of its new term, the Supreme Court adopted a revised rule for oral arguments, changing 200 years of practice. This should be the impetus for other long overdue reforms, specifically to increase the transparency of the court’s work.
Under... |
4b2dee0a30481b540a7942b97312c83a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-18/get-over-it-says-so-much-about-trumps-recklessness | Letters to the Editor: ‘Get over it’ says so much about Trump’s recklessness | Letters to the Editor: ‘Get over it’ says so much about Trump’s recklessness
To the editor: “Get over it” is a simplistic, thin response used by acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and this administration to defend actions that are indefensible. To execute foreign policy by whim and tweet without regard to ... |
a5728d6cc19e25c7505390bee52cb077 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-20/issues-democrats-2020-primaries | Cleaning up Trump’s mess | Cleaning up Trump’s mess
The next presidential election will be about character and fitness to lead the nation above all else. But the Democratic primary will also be a contest of ideas, which helps explain why the candidates have been cranking out plans, proposals and white papers like blue plate specials at a diner.
... |
e31ce17a9cb8346d32c546fbf31bca70 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-21/trump-travel-ban-marriage-comedian | Opinion: Trump’s travel ban forced my husband and me to start our life together on different continents | Opinion: Trump’s travel ban forced my husband and me to start our life together on different continents
In September, my husband and I celebrated our one-year wedding anniversary. Or at least we tried to. Feeling celebratory is difficult in our situation.
My husband, Arya Shoaee, is Iranian, a nationality covered by Pr... |
c0810d767e8a4d6592691d0f57b74bc9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-23/we-cant-afford-a-utility-that-doesnt-shut-down-during-high-winds | Letters to the Editor: We can’t afford a utility that doesn’t shut down during high winds | Letters to the Editor: We can’t afford a utility that doesn’t shut down during high winds
To the editor: Seems like everyone wants a perfect power grid, perfectly controllable and perfectly safe. Can it be done? Yes, absolutely. Could you afford it? Absolutely not. (“PG&E warns of 10 years of power shut-offs. Californi... |
186dbdefad3a0a9b6d1b0d50fde7f302 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-24/brexit-trump-chlorinated-chicken-boris-johnson | Opinion: Why American poultry — and Donald Trump — have loomed large in the Brexit debate | Opinion: Why American poultry — and Donald Trump — have loomed large in the Brexit debate
America has loomed large in Britain’s Brexit debate. Or rather, Donald Trump and American poultry have.
It would be an obvious overstatement to say that U.S. chicken — or even President Trump — is the reason consecutive prime min... |
0c457d35bdd2b39f4e0033edd8c3b615 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-25/woolsey-tick-fire-report-climate-change | Editorial: Will California ever learn anything from its wildfires? | Editorial: Will California ever learn anything from its wildfires?
To anyone who’s followed the news of wildfires in California in recent years — or this week’s Tick fire — the 200-page report commissioned by Los Angeles County officials on last year’s Woolsey fire will sound terrifyingly familiar.
The Woolsey fire, wh... |
af3d3597138f9d34512ec44e52ce1f17 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-26/abcarian-meghan-markle-princess-diana | Column: Princess Diana was hounded to death. Don’t let that happen to Meghan Markle | Column: Princess Diana was hounded to death. Don’t let that happen to Meghan Markle
Why would anyone marry into the British royal family?
Especially an outspoken, biracial, successful American actress such as Meghan Markle, now Duchess of Sussex?
The arc is so painfully familiar: The press falls in love with you, can’t... |
34c694e8f6c17b2af5811daa983c1992 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-26/impeachment-justice-department-ukraine-mueller | Opinion: Dueling investigations by Congress and Justice Department threaten faith in government | Opinion: Dueling investigations by Congress and Justice Department threaten faith in government
Now this is what you call divided government.
Americans have grown used to the idea of the two major parties splitting control of the White House and Congress. In fact, voters seem to prefer things that way; one-party contro... |
48f0cbbbd47271b192f091e23eacd7e2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-29/democrats-deny-trump-supporters-an-impeachment-talking-point | Opinion: Democrats to take away a favorite Trump talking point by making impeachment inquiry official | Opinion: Democrats to take away a favorite Trump talking point by making impeachment inquiry official
President Trump and Republicans in Congress have railed against House Democrats for pursuing an impeachment inquiry without a vote on the floor to authorize the probe.
On Monday the Democrats deprived them of that issu... |
f5db18b3cc5820848141ed37e2affc29 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-29/mcmuffin-smuggling-jail-sheriff | Editorial: When McMuffin smuggling is a big deal | Editorial: When McMuffin smuggling is a big deal
No point getting all bent out of shape over an Egg McMuffin, right? That was the gist of the reaction by Sheriff Alex Villanueva to concerns raised over his rehiring of a former deputy who was once banned from the Los Angeles County jail.
But there is indeed reason for c... |
a799131d37174c922e0f6e8f7d3a4fb5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-30/newsom-shocking-recklessness-building-in-fire-prone-areas | Letters to the Editor: Gov. Newsom’s shocking recklessness on building in fire-prone areas | Letters to the Editor: Gov. Newsom’s shocking recklessness on building in fire-prone areas
To the editor: Although my wife and I lived in Idyllwild for 13 years, loving the forest and community, we recognized the constant threat of fire. We and others co-founded the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council and worked wit... |
6bae96cf619b5a74dc346258e85602ff | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-31/pge-warning-customer-culver-city-power-outages | Letters to the Editor: Why is PG&E warning a ‘customer’ in Culver City about outages? | Letters to the Editor: Why is PG&E warning a ‘customer’ in Culver City about outages?
To the editor: The L.A. Times reports that Pacific Gas & Electric failed to notify 23,000 customers about precautionary power outages. The company blamed some of the gaps in notification on residents not having contact information on ... |
5779e2a720bf7c1fbbc25b2044f22df0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-11-20/gordon-sondland-testimony-trump-impeachment-hearing | Letters to the Editor: Gordon Sondland’s testimony shows how a corrupt president operates | Letters to the Editor: Gordon Sondland’s testimony shows how a corrupt president operates
To the editor: During his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland linked President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo t... |
874a987c4f632a835ac907ee77e2c1b4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-12-08/criminalizing-homelessness-boise | Letters to the Editor: Criminalizing homelessness is cruel and financially reckless | Letters to the Editor: Criminalizing homelessness is cruel and financially reckless
To the editor: The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision last year on homeless people sleeping on the sidewalks did not create this problem. Rather, the biggest cause of this crisis is exorbitant rents.
Criminalizing homelessness b... |
46cf84a0edf2da7e78bc6333e18e733c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-20/california-presidential-primary-voting-confusion-threatens-election | Editorial: Is California’s presidential primary a disaster waiting to happen? | Editorial: Is California’s presidential primary a disaster waiting to happen?
California lawmakers moved the state’s 2020 presidential primary up to March 3 to give voters in the most populous state more influence over who will be running in the November general election. But millions of voters might be left out anyway... |
f3c6b4e037e1e653bd06ef3ce553f704 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-20/hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-may-seem-silly-but-it-means-a-lot-to-us-iranians | Op-Ed: A Walk of Fame star may seem silly, but it means a lot to us Iranians | Op-Ed: A Walk of Fame star may seem silly, but it means a lot to us Iranians
Andy Madadian, the Armenian Iranian singer and actor, got the 2,684th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday. For Angelenos not familiar with Andy’s raspy, soothing voice, he’s made more than a dozen albums and has loyal fans around the ... |
0e44f1a2159ee9523e74e9d7892a356f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-25/newsletter-why-impeachment-feels-oddly-reassuring | Newsletter: Why impeachment feels oddly reassuring | Newsletter: Why impeachment feels oddly reassuring
Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020. Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion.
After coming frighteningly close to war with Iran, it feels oddly relieving to watch members of Congress explain for a week why the president poses such a... |
c0a87d8575043ebcb49d4cbe639b7238 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-26/is-trump-really-still-a-climate-change-denier | Letters to the Editor: Is Trump really still a climate change denier? | Letters to the Editor: Is Trump really still a climate change denier?
To the editor: It seems incomprehensible that we have a president who is still a climate change denier. (“At Davos, Trump rejects climate crisis, lauds U.S. economy and fossil fuels,” Jan. 21)
If you visit Miami Beach today, you’ll need to take your ... |
729f728fd7ff60fafae9983921325b12 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-26/new-and-dangerous-coronaviruses-will-keep-emerging-until-we-focus-on-preventing-them | Op-Ed: This new coronavirus was preventable. But we never seem to learn the lessons of former outbreaks | Op-Ed: This new coronavirus was preventable. But we never seem to learn the lessons of former outbreaks
In recent days, in the largest quarantine effort in history, Wuhan city in China was put on lockdown and the Chinese government imposed wide-ranging restrictions on both domestic and foreign travel. The actions are a... |
b8dc4d2da4ec1b79dbf2ff52319b5754 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-27/birth-control-pill-over-the-counter | Opinion: Birth control should be available over the counter. How Congress can make that happen | Opinion: Birth control should be available over the counter. How Congress can make that happen
Congress should revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s power to require women to obtain prescriptions to purchase hormonal contraceptives, a change that would reduce the price of birth control pills and finally allow consu... |
ef6b98166ed726b36e6137da51b79f7b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-27/bolton-book-senate-impeachment-trump | Opinion: Getting John Bolton to testify is only half the battle | Opinion: Getting John Bolton to testify is only half the battle
Are there Las Vegas odds yet on whether former national security advisor John Bolton reveals more in his book than he will in President Trump’s impeachment trial?
On Monday, Amazon revealed that Bolton’s account of his time in the White House will be publi... |
72dcedcf42e5610f2fe77d8b2cdb7c7e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-27/calculator-sat-testing-math | Opinion: Ban the use of high-end calculators that give students ‘the edge’ on the SAT | Opinion: Ban the use of high-end calculators that give students ‘the edge’ on the SAT
As colleges across the country debate whether to require standardized tests as part of college admissions on account of their perceived bias against low-income students and students of color, there is a built-in bias in SAT test-takin... |
c54ea40d213eac7d9b483e430f6be073 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-28/john-bolton-call-a-news-conference-and-tell-us-what-you-know | Letters to the Editor: John Bolton, call a news conference and tell us what you know | Letters to the Editor: John Bolton, call a news conference and tell us what you know
To the editor: I have found very little with which to agree in former national security advisor John Bolton’s assessment of world events and his recommendations for U.S. foreign policy. Yet I always felt he was proceeding based on stro... |
a86ac910446f4a781832fbd727a5ab01 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-28/kobe-bryants-sexual-assault-charge | Letters to the Editor: Kobe Bryant’s sexual assault charge wasn’t just another obstacle he overcame | Letters to the Editor: Kobe Bryant’s sexual assault charge wasn’t just another obstacle he overcame
To the editor: The helicopter crash that killed former Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant was a tragedy for his family and those of the other passengers. But it was jarring to see the pages of hagiography in the Los Angeles Ti... |
c5f4768a35a2c09f0c43046b0ebffb2f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-29/latino-voters-outreach-democrats-campaign | Op-Ed: There are right — and wrong — ways to court voters of color | Op-Ed: There are right — and wrong — ways to court voters of color
My granddaughter is part of a new generation that will swell the number of Latino voters to 32 million this year. Somewhere in the United States, a young Latino turns 18 every 40 seconds, and the Pew Research Center projects that in 2020 we will become ... |
c2656e09c916aaf21468ebd537781cdd | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-31/coronavirus-china-quarantine-world-health-organization?_amp=true&fbclid=IwAR1Mwmx5D1zv80Na9tZp93FRYACTr7bFyrSDnMVkkWAAud4FURV_8wdBaPw&__twitter_impression=true | International overreaction to the coronavirus is more dangerous than the virus itself | International overreaction to the coronavirus is more dangerous than the virus itself
In April 2003, I was evacuated from my post teaching English in Guangzhou, China, at the height of the SARS epidemic. I was 23. While transiting in Chicago on my way home to Philadelphia, I called my parents. That’s when they informed... |
8352a8feeefb6a6b22d548e2fe249871 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-31/trump-hhs-medicaid-block-grants | Editorial: Trump offers the wrong fix for Medicaid’s shortcomings | Editorial: Trump offers the wrong fix for Medicaid’s shortcomings
Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor, is one of the costliest, if not the costliest, program that states operate. Total Medicaid spending by states and the federal government, which covers more than 60% of the claims, neared $60... |
9020d775113ce7884f15fdd65a8cc931 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-02/bulldozing-old-growth-forests-for-cattle-grazing | Letters to the Editor: Bulldozing old-growth forests for cattle grazing is profoundly reckless | Letters to the Editor: Bulldozing old-growth forests for cattle grazing is profoundly reckless
To the editor: So the federal Bureau of Land Management is bulldozing millions of acres of native pinyon-juniper forest in the American West? Are we now emulating Brazil in its unashamed destruction of the Amazon rain forest?... |
ca056f7404f9f01af031d48c0bcf3bf5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-03/coronavirus-china-media-censorship-propaganda | Op-Ed: China’s media censorship is making the coronavirus outbreak even more lethal | Op-Ed: China’s media censorship is making the coronavirus outbreak even more lethal
As reports of new coronavirus infections soar, it’s becoming clear that Chinese government leaders have been putting their political interests ahead of public health. This is not a surprise but a long-established pattern.
In recent days... |
251a8c18250fbd78a70099f1699158d2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-03/la-times-election-endorsements | Editorial: Election season is finally here. Here are the races in which the L.A. Times plans to endorse | Editorial: Election season is finally here. Here are the races in which the L.A. Times plans to endorse
The California primary is underway, with vote-by-mail ballots going out to Los Angeles County voters Monday (to apply, see information at the conclusion of this editorial). Voters who want to cast their ballots in pe... |
a22be4491defc1e8ac8daaa86e079835 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-04/notes-from-the-iowa-caucuses-where-every-candidate-is-a-winner-and-the-pundits-are-seething | Column: Notes from the Iowa caucuses, where the pundits are seething and every candidate is a winner | Column: Notes from the Iowa caucuses, where the pundits are seething and every candidate is a winner
The debacle in Des Moines.
The calamity in Council Bluffs.
The waterloo in…Waterloo.
Call it what you will, the failure of the Iowa Democratic Party to receive and report results of its ultra-hyped first-in-the-nation p... |
08dba81cb6d7d5b9d79aa76e112180bb | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-04/public-access-hollister-ranch-beaches | Letters to the Editor: Can the public access Hollister Ranch beaches without destroying them? | Letters to the Editor: Can the public access Hollister Ranch beaches without destroying them?
To the editor: The photos with Steve Lopez’s column on Hollister Ranch owners joining forces with the Pacific Legal Foundation to fight a state law on public access to beaches show a rugged, remote terrain, with no amenities o... |
5ab1da4698d91e6561bb92406c285a5a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-04/trump-state-union-economy-wars-climate-change-gridlock | Editorial: The real State of the Union you won’t hear from Trump | Editorial: The real State of the Union you won’t hear from Trump
President Trump is scheduled to deliver his third State of the Union speech before Congress on Tuesday evening. Expect an earful about how great he is and how he single-handedly has saved the republic from America-hating Democrats and Obama-era policies. ... |
258b94693ef4fe319fffc41883382e63 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-05/los-angeles-parking-too-much-housing-for-cars | Op-Ed: Los Angeles is building plenty of housing ... for cars | Op-Ed: Los Angeles is building plenty of housing ... for cars
Everywhere you look in Los Angeles, there is parking.
There is parking next to houses. There is parking surrounding restaurants and coffee shops. There are parking lots adjacent to Metro stations. There is parking under, above and in front of apartment build... |
a24deb2ffb96d67f70cbabd26ee7f2e7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-05/trump-abortion-rights-attack-sotu | Opinion: Trump’s State of the Union attack on abortion rights was pathetic — even for him | Opinion: Trump’s State of the Union attack on abortion rights was pathetic — even for him
It was beyond the pale outrageous that President Trump, in his State of the Union address, would somehow link support for (admirable) advances in neonatal medicine to asking for a (probably) unconstitutional ban on late-term abort... |
ea7da677f45abffe1bcb0db11483f90e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-06/executive-power-impeachment-donald-trump-joe-biden | Op-Ed: Can’t remove the president from power? Do the reverse: Remove power from the president | Op-Ed: Can’t remove the president from power? Do the reverse: Remove power from the president
Now that Democrats have failed in their attempt to remove the president from power, it’s worth asking why they haven’t seriously considered the reverse: removing power from the president.
We have seen, over the 33 months since... |
05e7e13374c827a7cce3441ccd6d752e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-06/health-care-swing-states-democrats-campaigns | Op-Ed: The winning 2018 Democratic playbook: Avoid talking about ‘Medicare for all’ | Op-Ed: The winning 2018 Democratic playbook: Avoid talking about ‘Medicare for all’
To retake the presidency in November, the Democrats will need to win the electoral college. The clearest path to do that is to win the swing states that had the closest margins in the 2016 election. Fortunately, the Democrats have a pla... |
714ebcbbe41206b417b85df2c11f20bf | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-06/mitt-romney-donald-trump | Op-Ed: Sorry, liberals, you can’t claim Mitt now when you hated him then | Op-Ed: Sorry, liberals, you can’t claim Mitt now when you hated him then
If you praise someone’s great moral character when it is in your best interest but refuse to do so when it is not, you aren’t doing it right.
That’s what I thought after Utah Sen. Mitt Romney collected a wheelbarrow full of fair-weather friends in... |
2945ef12f688e313ec2e9470f587dd06 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-07/rush-limbaugh-presidential-medal-of-freedom-donald-trump | Column: Trump dittoes Limbaugh’s bigotry with a Presidential Medal of Freedom | Column: Trump dittoes Limbaugh’s bigotry with a Presidential Medal of Freedom
Larry Lujack, the sarcastic Chicago top-40 DJ who died in 2013, once did a stunt where he stormed into theaters to punish moviegoers for smoking.
Obviously Lujack, a longtime smoker and self-styled degenerate, wasn’t offering a public service... |
ba76cd66731fde2f8715d8bb40c393b5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-07/traffic-congestion-killed-kobe-bryant-bad-weather | Letters to the Editor: Traffic congestion killed Kobe Bryant as much as bad weather did | Letters to the Editor: Traffic congestion killed Kobe Bryant as much as bad weather did
To the editor: Nearly two weeks after the helicopter crash that took the lives of nine people, including former Lakers star Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, we must now ponder how this tragedy affects all of California.
I believ... |
afff2bd82fb57abb60fa95ae82dd9fa8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-07/trump-administration-supports-predatory-lenders-again | Editorial: Trump administration sides with predatory lenders. Again | Editorial: Trump administration sides with predatory lenders. Again
One hallmark of President Trump’s tenure is the zeal with which federal agencies have sought to shred federal regulations, either by repealing or simply not enforcing them. That’s been true even in cases where the deregulation is likely to raise costs ... |
87902c6e0c0052a2791ebaadad51d3df | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-08/mitt-romney-is-a-hero-who-deserved-to-lose-in-2012 | Newsletter: Mitt Romney is a hero who deserved to lose in 2012 | Newsletter: Mitt Romney is a hero who deserved to lose in 2012
Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020. Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion.
Can you praise Sen. Mitt Romney for casting the lone Republican vote to remove President Trump and still be glad that he did not win the White ... |
fb029182a34880eac3a2d756f1d8f95c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-09/astros-dodgers-sign-stealing | Op-Ed: Baseball’s steroid era was bad, but the Astros cheat was organized crime | Op-Ed: Baseball’s steroid era was bad, but the Astros cheat was organized crime
Baseball has been the background music of my life. Now, thanks to the Houston Astros and their sign-stealing cheat, I’m humming a different tune.
I grew up in a Wisconsin town just big enough to have minor league baseball. The team name was... |
8b141b2df86cb7c68af1a3972cf031c0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-12/editorial-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-should-air-safety | Editorial: Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crash should have us all thinking about the safety of our airspace | Editorial: Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crash should have us all thinking about the safety of our airspace
No one will ever know for sure what transpired in those minutes before the helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven other people plummeted into a hillside in Calabasas on Jan. 26, killing ev... |
046591a3a56d25278aef152cd5867895 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-12/endorsement-christy-smith-for-congress | Endorsement: Christy Smith is the best choice to replace Katie Hill in Congress | Endorsement: Christy Smith is the best choice to replace Katie Hill in Congress
After up-and-coming Democratic Rep. Katie Hill resigned from her 25th Congressional District seat in October amid a swirl of scandalous allegations and leaked photos, more than a dozen candidates lined up to replace her in the Santa Clarita... |
2a7132f2c3952844b8284b016147e02e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-12/nominate-mike-bloomberg-to-beat-trump | Letters to the Editor: Sorry, Democrats, you might have to nominate Mike Bloomberg to beat Trump | Letters to the Editor: Sorry, Democrats, you might have to nominate Mike Bloomberg to beat Trump
To the editor: I’ve regretfully come to the conclusion that Democrats must nominate former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for president. The thought of two billionaires fighting over the presidency makes me slightly nause... |
8435bec8e069595d6107585a5db64cf2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-12/op-ed-liberals-should-save-their-fire-for-real-issues-rather-than-mock-trumps-every-foible | Op-Ed: Liberals should save their fire for real issues rather than mock Trump’s every foible | Op-Ed: Liberals should save their fire for real issues rather than mock Trump’s every foible
For the first time in memory, I agreed with a tweet from Donald Trump. After a purportedly authentic photo of the president’s forehead, colored a grotesque orange, went viral, Trump responded: “More Fake News. This was photosho... |
f96cb0dcc91bcc159701027e03a7e7c8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-13/dave-mccoy-mammoth-mountain-death | Letters to the Editor: Remembering ‘Mr. McCoy’ on the slopes of Mammoth Mountain | Letters to the Editor: Remembering ‘Mr. McCoy’ on the slopes of Mammoth Mountain
To the editor: It was so long ago that even in California, teenagers called those older than them “Mr.” and “Mrs.” It was 1965, and my friends and I would drive up Highway 395 to the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area and stay in a dormitory for $5... |
e61191c9012aef2f0ea5602aa77be7b0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-13/pumas-are-native-to-the-santa-monica-mountains-livestock-are-not | Letters to the Editor: Pumas are native to the Santa Monica Mountains. Livestock are not | Letters to the Editor: Pumas are native to the Santa Monica Mountains. Livestock are not
To the editor: I am befuddled by the recent slaughter of P-56, a male mountain lion in the Santa Monica Mountains who preyed on livestock.
So, someone can get a permit to kill wild animals where they live if they place attractive m... |
f43b805488c4243588b2c7eef7895f41 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-14/accusing-israel-of-breaking-international-law-puts-jews-in-danger | Letters to the Editor: How accusing Israel of breaking international law puts Jews in danger | Letters to the Editor: How accusing Israel of breaking international law puts Jews in danger
To the editor: UCLA professor David N. Myers insists Israel is “threatening international law” by seeking to assert sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank).
Actually, Article 80 of the United Nations Char... |
507f6897c6fb0052e471ab5775bf0d86 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-14/did-pope-francis-cave-to-conservatives-and-his-predecessor-on-married-priests | Opinion: Did Pope Francis acquiesce to conservatives on married priests? Sure looks like it | Opinion: Did Pope Francis acquiesce to conservatives on married priests? Sure looks like it
Conservative Catholics, including some critics of Pope Francis, are doing a victory lap because the pope has not, as expected, endorsed the ordination of married men as priests in the Amazon region of South America. At a Vatican... |
147298d0373e1a187f3a21384d121914 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-14/joe-biden-moderate-voters | Letters to the Editor: Joe Biden lost two small states. Moderates can still save him | Letters to the Editor: Joe Biden lost two small states. Moderates can still save him
To the editor: Will black voters save Joe Biden’s presidential campaign? The answer is no. What might win Biden the Democratic nomination is moderate voters who value experience and compromise.
Although the results of the Iowa and New ... |
eb2b9bdde97048b163fb8730e7c610f0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-14/trump-corrupting-the-justice-department | Letters to the Editor: How will Trump’s supporters explain corrupting the Justice Department? | Letters to the Editor: How will Trump’s supporters explain corrupting the Justice Department?
To the editor: Journalists are once again reporting this president’s corruption of our normal democratic practices, things he smears as horrible and unfair. In fact, what President Trump targets are legal and honest attempts t... |
24e4aacd07b3427d5b0e26730214aad3 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-02-15/has-william-barr-gone-full-maga | Has William Barr gone full MAGA? | Has William Barr gone full MAGA?
Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion.
A long, long time ago, just after Democrats had been swept into power in the House and none of us realized just how much we’d miss the recently fired Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessio... |
486d8c9b58257ac5e8f5449f6ff69a74 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-05/morson-schapiro-rival-hatred-politics-trump-meteor-survey | Op-Ed: You might hate other people’s politics, but being too extreme imperils us all | Op-Ed: You might hate other people’s politics, but being too extreme imperils us all
In the mid-1990s one of us had a friend who was a fanatically proud graduate of Auburn University. His man cave was a shrine to the school’s football team — Tigers everywhere. But one day he admitted something disturbing: As much as he... |
a343c240d17c72602378a450945300a1 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-09/englander-indictment-corruption | Opinion: Corruption, escorts and dirty cash at L.A. City Hall? You don’t say | Opinion: Corruption, escorts and dirty cash at L.A. City Hall? You don’t say
For anyone who’s been following the ongoing corruption investigation at L.A. City Hall, including the flurry of FBI raids in recent months, take a look at your indictment bingo card to see if you have former Councilman Mitch Englander.
The for... |
89f7e5766f97d341149951d8682a3ce2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-11/englander-indictment-corruption-los-angeles | Editorial: Mitch Englander’s arrest should be a warning to L.A. City Hall: Time to clean up | Editorial: Mitch Englander’s arrest should be a warning to L.A. City Hall: Time to clean up
Los Angeles City Hall observers have been waiting more than a year to learn what, if anything, would come out of the ongoing federal corruption investigation into city officials and real estate developers.
On Monday, the feds is... |
8b21953ca0cfb461b9c5dbae804b4de9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-11/panic-covid-19-worse-for-everyone | Editorial: Panicking might work in zombie films, but it’s making coronavirus worse for everyone | Editorial: Panicking might work in zombie films, but it’s making coronavirus worse for everyone
With the coronavirus spreading throughout the U.S., Americans are reacting in a variety of ways. Some of them are smart, others … not so much.
Staying away from big crowds, stocking up on prescription medication and food in ... |
868423d977122b1650b6464d7b155050 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-12/university-admissions-recruitment-out-of-state-students-affluent-white | Op-Ed: State universities say they want diversity but recruit well-off, white, out-of-state students | Op-Ed: State universities say they want diversity but recruit well-off, white, out-of-state students
In 1996, I was a junior at Newton North High School in Newton, Mass., a wealthy Boston suburb. I was a lackluster B student who often lobbied to take lower-track classes to avoid the work. I had few extracurricular acti... |
f30eb47fdab5bfe0d9f01f22e02717c5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-13/coronavirus-lausd-school-closures | Editorial: Closing LAUSD schools in the face of coronavirus sounds like a reasonable decision. Is it? | Editorial: Closing LAUSD schools in the face of coronavirus sounds like a reasonable decision. Is it?
The Los Angeles Unified school board appears to have made the popular decision by closing all of its schools indefinitely. But there’s no getting away from the enormous disruption this fraught decision will cause to ch... |
f2c9b423e7d301846533d4f8f15504f4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-14/city-councilman-john-lee-englander-resign | City Councilman John Lee, the indicted Englander’s ex-aide, should resign | City Councilman John Lee, the indicted Englander’s ex-aide, should resign
To the editor: In your editorial on the federal corruption indictment of former Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander, you note that City Councilman John Lee, Englander’s former chief of staff, “said he wasn’t aware of anything illegal” ... |
f2ea9d654257a967924c984fe02980c1 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-16/editorial-its-time-for-action-on-coronavirus-mr-president-not-prayers | Editorial: Trump finally shows some leadership in the coronavirus fight. Let’s hope it lasts | Editorial: Trump finally shows some leadership in the coronavirus fight. Let’s hope it lasts
As Californians awoke Monday morning to a cascade of new state and local restrictions on public gatherings, and to very bad news from Wall Street, President Trump lamely tweeted “God Bless the USA!” Just two days earlier, he ha... |
fa4003b7ebeba581bda829d5884a989f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-17/op-ed-as-a-doctor-i-use-telemedicine-with-the-coronavirus-threat-it-could-revolutionize-healthcare | Op-Ed: As a doctor, I use telemedicine. With the coronavirus threat, it could revolutionize healthcare | Op-Ed: As a doctor, I use telemedicine. With the coronavirus threat, it could revolutionize healthcare
As a physician, waiting for the worst of coronavirus to hit, I see a lot to fear. It seems increasingly likely that this will be one of the most significant pandemics in modern human history, and that it will change o... |
6a81f938005106921ea5e1e3a66eac7d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-18/airline-bailouts-benefit-shareholders | Letters to the Editor: Airline bailouts benefit shareholders. Why not bail out people? | Letters to the Editor: Airline bailouts benefit shareholders. Why not bail out people?
To the editor: The airline industry’s trade group is calling on the federal government to provide about $58 billion in loans, grants and tax breaks. Other industries are sure to follow; they will say they need the money to preserve j... |
c002886022321850712a137eb2a174af | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-18/pundits-predictions-election | Letters to the Editor: Why does anyone care what pundits predict about an election? | Letters to the Editor: Why does anyone care what pundits predict about an election?
To the editor: Jon Wiener writes that pundits’ predictions are often wrong, but he does not say why.
They get it wrong for two simple reasons. First, they live in a bubble. They look around at all the young college graduates who surroun... |
e91c4b031c1b484307e79df183df7b13 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-19/donald-trump-coronavirus-covid-19-george-w-bush-katrina | Column: Is COVID-19 Donald Trump’s Hurricane Katrina? | Column: Is COVID-19 Donald Trump’s Hurricane Katrina?
When Hurricane Katrina smashed the Gulf Coast on the morning of Aug. 29, 2005, President George W. Bush was kicking back at his Texas ranch. He’d managed to ignore the news.
The evacuation of New Orleans. The mounting death toll. The desperation on rooftops, where p... |
0a53a1a6401b5eae335c6d2e3721b681 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-20/covid-19-testing-lakers-unfair | Letters to the Editor: Lakers can get tested, but a man whose wife died of COVID-19 can’t. Outrageous | Letters to the Editor: Lakers can get tested, but a man whose wife died of COVID-19 can’t. Outrageous
To the editor: In his March 17 piece on Lakers players being quarantined and tested for COVID-19, Sports columnist Dylan Hernandez correctly stated the coronavirus itself does not discriminate.
But our democratic syste... |
2aaf24a521bf65368c72c38e6b87158c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-22/buying-a-gun-oronavirus-makes-no-sense | Letters to the Editor: Buying a gun to stay safe in the coronavirus pandemic makes no sense | Letters to the Editor: Buying a gun to stay safe in the coronavirus pandemic makes no sense
To the editor: It is disconcerting that some Americans have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by arming up.
In these stressful and uncertain times, we have been urged to take care of one another through acts of human kindness a... |
e55afb8cea731c3dbb2ee47cd11f9476 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-22/letters-to-the-editor-we-dont-need-checks-for-1-200-we-need-toilet-paper-and-hospital-beds | Letters to the Editor: We don’t need checks for $1,200. We need toilet paper and hospital beds | Letters to the Editor: We don’t need checks for $1,200. We need toilet paper and hospital beds
To the editor: Economist James K. Galbraith is dead-on right about a government bailout that benefits primarily corporate shareholders and gives cash mainly to employed Americans.
I am a 70-year-old man with asthma and chroni... |
3e4c29705f0e5df02fcad8607179f299 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-23/opinion-coronavirus-elizabeth-warren-to-be-vice-president | Opinion: The coronavirus has made it abundantly clear — the world needs Elizabeth Warren to be vice president | Opinion: The coronavirus has made it abundantly clear — the world needs Elizabeth Warren to be vice president
Remember the good ol’ days — six months ago — when a Democratic presidential candidate with the adorable catchphrase “I have a plan for that,” was surging in the polls?
The most endearing part was that her catc... |
c9db3cbf36a4e799a752505812a210ee | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-25/doctors-selling-covid-19-tests-to-their-rich-patients | Letters to the Editor: Doctors selling coronavirus tests to their rich patients aren’t helping | Letters to the Editor: Doctors selling coronavirus tests to their rich patients aren’t helping
To the editor: I am a physician practicing in Southern California. I read with increasing anger the article on Dr. Jay Gordon and other physicians in private practice selling coronavirus test kits to their affluent patients.
... |
4a2eb2fd7201e862dd4a158cc4983403 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-28/readers-dont-disagree-on-need-for-social-distancing | Opinion: Two letter writers are mad at Gov. Newsom, and readers are having none of it | Opinion: Two letter writers are mad at Gov. Newsom, and readers are having none of it
It’s safe to say that the vast majority of our letter writers are on board with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “stay at home” order to slow the coronavirus’ spread. Some have sent letters expressing worry over what the restrictions mean for peop... |
004a18fc0220e4ecf44e7e82eaf0578a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-03/sba-payroll-protection-program-delay | Opinion: Is the cavalry finally on the way to help keep small businesses alive? Kinda sorta | Opinion: Is the cavalry finally on the way to help keep small businesses alive? Kinda sorta
Are you a small business owner or employee scared stiff about the COVID-19 pandemic putting you out of work? Or a small nonprofit or sole proprietorship? Good news — the calvary rides in today! Well, some of them. Maybe.
Amidst ... |
8e2001368f002ce8bebeb177ef642cec | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-03/voting-pragmatically-for-biden | Letters to the Editor: Voting ‘pragmatically’ for Biden over Sanders may give us four more years of Trump | Letters to the Editor: Voting ‘pragmatically’ for Biden over Sanders may give us four more years of Trump
To the editor: Erin Aubrey Kaplan’s op-ed article on why black voters are supporting former Vice President Joe Biden over Sen. Bernie Sanders was exactly on target. Comparing Sanders’ ideas to those of Martin Luthe... |
d536b1da439e9ea7fef183413bcf738d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-04/obama-ex-presidents-coronavirus | Letters to the Editor: Time for Obama and other ex-presidents to come to our rescue | Letters to the Editor: Time for Obama and other ex-presidents to come to our rescue
To the editor: From my six decades of observation, it is obvious that a presidential “boys’ club” exists, with past commanders in chief granting the current officer holder courtesies that their predecessors afforded them as well. Howeve... |
be616a59c9ab8ed5d1b77f2745cc1083 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-05/apartment-renovation-essential-business | Letters to the Editor: It’s ridiculous to consider apartment renovation an ‘essential’ business | Letters to the Editor: It’s ridiculous to consider apartment renovation an ‘essential’ business
To the editor: For the safety of construction workers, many of whom share tools and necessarily work in close proximity to one another, and for the peace of mind of neighboring residents (many of them elderly) faithfully fol... |
d88cb9b096dbc73be745e9938e411c8d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-05/juvenile-life-without-parole-requires-magical-thinking | Editorial: The absurdity of life without parole for juveniles | Editorial: The absurdity of life without parole for juveniles
Despite their robes, judges are not wizards. They have no conjuring superpowers that allow them to see through juvenile offenders and know the course of their adult lives in prison. Nor are they equipped to determine, today, whether any particular offenders ... |
9bf33accb053311f845c9a993667b6a4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-05/newsom-eviction-delay-policy-landlords | Letters to the Editor: Gavin Newsom’s eviction delay policy is fair to renters and landlords | Letters to the Editor: Gavin Newsom’s eviction delay policy is fair to renters and landlords
To the editor: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s delay on evictions is a measured response to a critical problem.
The governor has given short-term relief to tenants because of the COVID-19 crisis without providing carte blanche for widespre... |
dfff362217874c66cec56ef507522887 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-06/supreme-court-wisconsin-voters-primary | Opinion: Hackery at its worst: Supreme Court conservatives just gave Wisconsin a green light to disenfranchise voters | Opinion: Hackery at its worst: Supreme Court conservatives just gave Wisconsin a green light to disenfranchise voters
The Los Angeles Times warned in an editorial last month that the COVID-19 pandemic threatened not only the health of individuals but the democratic process. The Supreme Court exacerbated that infection... |
c20e95e149da92df381952e7ef07ac46 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-07/coronavirus-worst-week-just-the-first | Editorial: This could be the first worst week of many worst weeks to come. Prepare yourselves | Editorial: This could be the first worst week of many worst weeks to come. Prepare yourselves
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 passed the 10,000 mark on Monday, just slightly more than two months from the day the first case was confirmed in the state of Washington. As bad as that is, things are going to get worse.
Tha... |
caf088cfd74888572fafb9de88da418f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-07/federal-stockpile-medical-supplies-coronavirus-trump | Letters to the Editor: If a federal stockpile isn’t for states, then what is it for, President Trump? | Letters to the Editor: If a federal stockpile isn’t for states, then what is it for, President Trump?
To the editor: In the event that we are attacked by a foreign enemy, is each state going to be required to buy their own missiles and bombs in order to defend themselves? Instead of every state vying with each other to... |
aa0ea981f45c6512a0fbaa0c50c07eda | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-07/op-ed-how-living-through-the-siege-of-sarajevo-prepared-me-for-coronavirus | Op-Ed: How living through the siege of Sarajevo prepared me for coronavirus | Op-Ed: How living through the siege of Sarajevo prepared me for coronavirus
I started my career as a foreign correspondent in the 1990s, reporting and living for months on end in Sarajevo, a relatively modern European city subjected to an almost medieval siege as it was encircled, isolated and bombarded.
The siege of S... |
e6af6735ea5e8f3eaf8af67a82439ef8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-07/renewable-energy-future-global-warming-coronavirus-economy | Opinion: Renewable energy must be the future, if we are to have one at all | Opinion: Renewable energy must be the future, if we are to have one at all
The world still relies far too much on burning fossil fuels for energy, but an annual accounting of new energy sources carries some heartening news: Nearly 75% of new electricity generation capacity last year involved renewable energy — an all-t... |
06a2d3da993af4c1401f9de884b28cf4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-08/editorial-trump-takes-aim-at-inspector-generals-who-keep-the-government-honest | Editorial: Trump whacks at the inspectors general appointed to keep him honest | Editorial: Trump whacks at the inspectors general appointed to keep him honest
During President Trump’s impeachment trial, there were warnings that if he were acquitted for abusing his power to induce a foreign country to investigate a political rival, he would be emboldened to continue to put his own interests above t... |
fbccda5c31bb7b79e524713fe3cb2d57 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-08/going-to-church-coronavirus | Letters to the Editor: Going to church right now proves your selfishness, not your faith | Letters to the Editor: Going to church right now proves your selfishness, not your faith
To the editor: The stubborn, selfish souls determined to flock to church during these days of pandemic-driven institutional closures remind me of that classic Christian anecdote about the drowning man (or preacher in some versions)... |
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