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One thing that can be said about Donald Trump's transactional approach to policy-making is that, as destructive as it might be to our economic health, it gives business leaders clear options to get what they want out of ...Read more

The nakedly partisan congressional redistricting effort that Texas Republicans are pursuing at President Donald Trump’s command shows what the map-making process should not look like. It’s more difficult to say exactly...Read more

The White House has promised swift action on homelessness. It aims to dismantle encampments, force addicts and the mentally ill into treatment, and yank federal funds from cities that refuse to police tents and open-air ...Read more

I stepped on my bathroom scale the other morning and could not believe the three digits staring up at me.

And I mean that literally — the scale was rigged.

I know this because I've been dieting my butt off, and I swear...Read more

President Donald Trump’s demand for a whopping $1 billion payment from UCLA sent shock waves through the UC system. For those of us on the inside, the announcement elicited a range of responses. Some faculty and staff ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s demand for a whopping $1 billion payment from UCLA sent shock waves through the UC system. For those of us on the inside, the announcement elicited a range of responses. Some faculty and staff ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s administrations have been notorious for an array of “alternative facts” — ranging from the relatively minor (the size of inaugural crowds) to threats to U.S. democracy, such as who really ...Read more

As our raft guide navigated the gentle rapids and rocky canyon walls of Colorado’s Taylor River, Los Angeles felt a world away. The river was quiet, serene. Keep an eye out for bighorn sheep, our guide told us.

But even...Read more

The United Nations admits in a recent report that, over the past three months, 90% of humanitarian aid trucks never made their intended destination in Gaza due to looting. For this, deeply misguided liberal activists blame...Read more

Scientists say blue whales are singing less.

It's not really singing. It's more like squeaking, but they used to do it all the time, and now they only do it sometimes. The singing helps them find mates, and it's how ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- What happens in Los Angeles doesn't stay in Los Angeles. Not when you have a president who believes that fearmongering is a terrible thing to waste.

First, Trump ravaged L.A. by unleashing a battalion of ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hartzell Gray has built a reputation around Kansas City as a well-known media personality and progressive activist, drawing in listeners through podcast episodes, radio segments and speeches at local ...Read more

Costco Wholesale Corp. has decided not to dispense the abortion pill mifepristone at its more than 500 pharmacy locations, a decision hailed by a group of faith-based activists who urged the retailer to avoid selling the ...Read more

President Trump Thursday said he has high hopes of making progress to a Ukraine peace deal at a Friday afternoon summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska, but admitted there is a 1 in 4 chance of a “bad meeting.�...Read more

Local officials and advocates for the homeless are fearful that President Trump will take draconian action against homeless people, including pushing them into detention camps, when Los Angeles hosts the Olympic Games in ...Read more

The latest from the streets of LA -- ICE Seeks Supreme Court Approval for Racial Profiling. That's what they're doing. As I wrote in my last column, in June, the federal district court found, discriminatory "roving ...Read more

I was born in Washington, D.C., at the end of 1942. Growing up in the suburbs there was so little crime it made the front page in the city’s three newspapers. Today, unless someone who works on Capitol Hill is murdered, ...Read more

I. The battle over facts

When Donald Trump fired Dr. Kristine Joy Suh, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after a disappointing July jobs report, it wasn’t merely a personnel decision—it was a sharp break with ...Read more

Showing that his loyalty to his own anti-vax mentality is greater than his loyalty to President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the dangerous quack atop the Department of Health and Human Services, has announced that...Read more

How on earth did Israel get to this point, and how can it escape? These two questions seem unavoidable after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his response to months of criticism and outrage over his conduct ...Read more