The state's new excise tax on firearms and ammunition is similar to taxes on alcohol and tobacco, other legal products that can cause significant harm to society.
President Biden's tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles and batteries will hurt consumers and slow the transition to zero-emission vehicles at a time when the U.S. needs to rapidly reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
A reader's modest proposal for increasing Metro safety: Every rider gets a gun. Except children: They get knives.
Trump is an insurrectionist; Biden is not. Putting them on the same stage fosters false equivalence between them.
MAGA lawmakers seem more interested in providing emotional support to defendant Trump than running the country.
Asante's layered voice creates its own rhythm and flow, as he weaves a personal story with reflections on Black American history.
Tells drivers on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu that they're entering a speed trap. That could slow traffic on that deadly stretch.
Proposition 28 directs nearly $1 billion to expand arts and music classes at California schools. But critics say some districts, including LAUSD, are using the budget bonanza for other things.
The author, who died on Monday, used fiction to get at the truth of private grief and doubt.
A reader who wrote copy for VHS cases recalls Sam Rubin's humor when he used the KTLA journalist's review to hype "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes."
When these justices deign to meet-and-greet, it's with people who won't ask them about conflicts of interest or gifts from billionaires.
It's impossible to remove enough CO2 from the atmosphere to fight climate change. The solution is to stop using fossil fuels.
A displaced resident of Chavez Ravine expresses reservations with Assembly Bill 1950, the Chavez Ravine Accountability Act.
One man's experience points to an answer: He was able to rent a home not through employment alone but because he reached the age for Social Security and Medicare.
Israel has seized the border crossing with Egypt in Rafah. My volunteer team doesn't know when we'll be able to leave, while the hospitals here remain at risk.
The City Council's decision to eliminate key changes to strengthen the Ethics Commission proves, yet again, that City Hall insiders are incapable of making meaningful reforms.
One reader says the ratio of civilian deaths to fighter deaths in Gaza is low for urban warfare. Another says Israel's tactics are self-defeating.
Justice Clarence Thomas accepted gifts from a billionaire, and his wife tried to overturn the 2020 election. These are facts, not 'lies.'
Miranda July's book 'All Fours,' about a Los Angeles woman's reckoning with perimenopause, imagines the end of fecundity as a joyful second flowering.
The focus on valedictorian Asna Tabassum at USC's recent graduation ceremonies shows that those who tried to silence her have lost.
At MAGA rallies across the country, Trumpers joyfully proclaim that 'real men wear diapers.'
Why is Gov. Ron DeSantis making it a crime to produce a meat alternative that could be part of a humane, healthful and environmentally sustainable future food system?
There's no place for antisemitism in the U.S. But House's Antisemitics Awareness bill goes too far in infringing on free speech.
The president has tried to leverage abortion rights, tout progress on the economy and adjust his Israel policy. What he can't change are the "vibes."
Why do college sports exist anyway? It's not to make money or serve politicians' agendas.
Camp guards making people prove they weren't Zionists before passing shows the protests were about demonization, says a reader.
A reader says he had orders to deploy to Vietnam for dangerous missions in 1972 — then Jane Fonda visited, and 'all hell broke loose.'
Sam Rubin "was the exact same person on the pitch that viewers saw on air," says a reader whose daughter's soccer team was coached by the late KTLA journalist.
College presidents in the Vietnam era would have thanked their lucky stars to face the relatively low disruptions caused by student movements in 2024.
The key witness in the New York hush money trial said the then-candidate told him to do what he had to do to suppress Stormy Daniels' story of a liaison with him.
Los Angeles' three Chinatowns have been central to the region's transformation from suburban fantasy into multiethnic metropolis.
Southern California air quality officials discussed port pollution at a luxury Rancho Mirage resort 100 miles from the harbor, when they should be adopting long-delaying rules for L.A. and Long Beach ports to slash health-damaging emissions.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposal to trim $3 million from the Parks Department reflects skewed priorities. Few residents are aware how much they use and enjoy the 280-site system.
Rising homelessness and visible crime in Portland fed panic over a drug decriminalization measure passed in 2020. But rolling that back won't solve the state's problems.
Metro needs better security, so a rider gives security personnel a tip: Get off the platforms and on the trains, where the problems are.
An article on a gun class for liberals "feeds the gun lobby's circular, paranoid talking point that a gun is needed to keep one safe from ... people with guns," says a reader.
Of all Trump's shattered norms, the refusal to commit to accept election results is the most corrosive to American democracy.
Questions for pro-Palestinian protesters: Would we be here if Oct. 7 hadn't happened or if Hamas wasn't in power in Gaza?
With the new $24 monthly fee, a solar customer frustrated with increasing expenses says it may soon be time to go off grid.
As I decide if I want to have kids, and my mother is thrust into the role of caregiver, we each find ourselves with parenting at the center of our lives.
Trump has said he will pardon the imprisoned Jan. 6 offenders, which reminds us: He is still free after inciting the Capitol insurrection.
The porn star's testimony in Donald Trump's election interference trial was off the legal point, but her story and her feisty performance are details that make a difference.
Reader suggestions for another round of Trump-Biden debates range from strict rules on microphone cutoffs to no rules at all.
For a family established by immigrants, there's an extra dimension of grief when those who were born in the old country are gone.
In Craig Foster's new memoir, the filmmaker calls on us to reclaim our wildness, even as humans don't seem too inclined to try to reverse climate change.
'Students want America to stand with the wretched and the poor — on the right side of history, not with criminals,' says a reader in defense of protesters.
A reader whose friend was killed at Kent State on May 4, 1970, says it's dismaying to see force still being used in response to college protests.
The idea that working in porn automatically makes you a liar or amoral is deeply offensive, and a vestige of antiquated attitudes about sex work and what women, in particular, should and should not do with their lives.
Pausing a shipment of weapons sends a message that the U.S. values human life.
The epic, the intimate and the autobiographical meet in Claire Messud's latest novel, 'This Strange Eventful History'
Most Americans look to their jobs for a sense of purpose, but few succeed in finding one there. The answer is to look beyond our careers.
The federal government's plan to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug will allow important medical research into how cannabis can help or hurt users.
Absent truly profound danger, administrators should do all they can to preserve the milestone experience of a community-wide graduation ceremony.
A reader is unconcerned about prison population. Another says an effort to weaken Proposition 47 is the type of "tough on crime" approach that doesn't work.
Police stood by as protesters at UCLA were viciously assaulted. Let's hope facial recognition technology can ID the attackers and bring justice.
A reader likens an article and photos on families living on Skid Row to Dorthea Lange's chilling 1936 picture, "Migrant Mother."
Los Angeles County leaders showed disregard for Vietnamese Americans by choosing the fall of Saigon anniversary to honor the actress who infamously visited Hanoi.
A community was uprooted for the land that became home to Dodger Stadium. The city of Los Angeles should make amends to the displaced families of Chavez Ravine.
The U.S. president is sworn to uphold the law, but presidential candidate Donald Trump keeps pledging to break it. We should believe him.
Plenty of rich men pay their mistresses to keep quiet. Not many of them do so to get elected to public office.
A former L.A. city controller says he was shocked to learn that General Relief payments are stuck at $221, where they've been since the 1970s.
Decisions by UCLA leaders on recent protests 'have been both morally bankrupt and catastrophically foolish,' says a university employee.
Artificial intelligence is a 'godsend' because it allows you to have fewer workers? What does the Bible say about the rich getting richer?
President Biden's decision to delay arms shipment to Israel is a very small and belated gesture that may nevertheless make a point.
The adult-film star's testimony in the New York hush-money trial is legally peripheral but central to the drama the prosecution has been framing for the jury.
Gaza protests across the U.S. are showing unprecedented support for Palestinians, and demanding accountability like never before.
Instead of comparing one fear to another, women could look to years of fictional heroines who asked themselves whether they wanted the lesser evil or the greater thrill.
Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong created a template for what it means for a musician to be 'on tour.' How much of their accounts was pure myth?
Father Greg Boyle lives out his faith with humility and love. His Presidential Medal of Freedom was long overdue.
In comparing today's college unrest to the 1960s, we must remember that many Vietnam veterans were deeply hurt by the protests.
For a 'grand bargain' to end infighting on utility-scale renewable energy, look to the Northern Chumash Tribal Council and other groups.
First the South Dakota governor shot her puppy, now she's the poster child for lying GOP politicians. At least she's paying a price.
Racism taints every stage of death penalty proceedings in California, as the state Supreme Court should acknowledge. It's present in other criminal sentences as well.
L.A. has ambitious climate goals, and deadlines are just around the corner. Officials should be redoubling efforts, not making excuses for why they can't be met.
Democrats' far-left excesses are collapsing under their own weight. Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump and other culture warriors had little to do with it.
The poorest Americans are mostly rural and white, and they're loyal to Republicans who keep bashing them.
In Huntington Beach, run by a far-right City Council, you wonder what someone really means when they're flying the American flag.
Retailers including Walmart, Home Deposit and Target are backing a measure to undo effective criminal justice reforms.
Some of the rhetoric and tactics were hardly 'peaceful,' says one reader. Another compares the demonstrators favorably to Vietnam War protesters.
Let's hope Biden's expansion of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument will help with the graffiti and trash problems.
Many articles on the election focus too much on Trump's chances at the expense of mentioning President Biden's accomplishments.
Two of the three surfers shot in Mexico were from Australia, a country that a reader notes has highly restrictive gun laws.
Jewish collective trauma, like that of the Palestinians, is undeniable. One shouldn't have to go to Treblinka to be reminded of this.
In her debut novel, J. Nicole Jones draws from our chaotic reality to create a dystopia where a woman awaits judgment for refusing to conform.
Violent attacks on the Metro system have scared riders and present an existential threat to public transit in Los Angeles. Leaders have to make major changes to keep the system viable.
The package of reforms the L.A. City Council is considering has a problem: It doesn't give the City Ethics Commission the independence it needs to do its watchdog job.
A reader asks, "Are Jewish Americans' concerns the only ones held to this dismissive standard, as though Jews are somehow 'responsible' for the war based on their ethnicity?"
We have the largest population of Native American and Indigenous peoples of any U.S. city, but we lack data on their linguistic diversity.
Fining someone of Trump's wealth is pointless. He and New York Judge Juan Merchan are on a collision course.
Antiwar protests help elect Richard Nixon in 1968. Can the unrest on college campuses today have a similar effect for Donald Trump?
The terror attack on Israel was a catastrophic failure of state protection. It is generating an unprecedented spike in Jewish civilians getting guns.
Those who ask "why single out Israel?" engage in the kind of whataboutism meant to stifle any criticism of the war.
To avoid a repeat of the chaos of the 2020 Biden-Trump debates, there must be clear rules for civility and moderators who are not afraid to enforce them.
Don't let the focus on holding Trump accountable for what he has done cloud your vision on what he will do, if voters give him the chance.
With abortion bans wreaking havoc, a reader suggests lawmakers being sworn into office add "first, do no harm" to their oaths.
Readers share their personal experiences with Gail Abarbanel, who recently stepped down after 50 years directing the Rape Treatment Center.
Nuclear waste from San Onofre is stored securely in concrete bunkers -- it isn't merely "buried" in a bluff.
Ernesto Londoño's memoir 'Trippy' explores psychiatry's renewed flirtation with drugs such as LSD. He's a believer but not a zealot.
A father whose son was attacked at UCLA on May 1 says all students, no matter their side on a protest, deserve protection.
It's become popular to blame the antiwar movement for prolonging the Vietnam War and electing Richard Nixon. That's misguided.