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President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance arrive at the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool)

Column: Donald Trump is president again. Did you feel the vibe shift?

Did Trump or trends shatter our bedrock assumptions? Either way, the usual thinking about how politics “works” and the rules for what a politician can or can’t do, no longer seem operative

Jan. 20, 2025

Title page of Thomas Paine's revolutionary pamphlet "Common Sense," published in Philadelphia in 1776.

Opinion: It’s time to relearn the lessons of Thomas Paine’s ‘Common Sense’

Jan. 20, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on January 21, 2019 in Washington, DC. They placed a wreath to commemorate the slain civil rights leader. (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images)

Opinion: If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive, how would he have approached the Trump era?

Jan. 19, 2025

El presidente Joe Biden escucha durante una sesión informativa sobre la respuesta federal a la propagación de incendios en el área de Los Ángeles, el viernes 10 de enero de 2025, en la Oficina Oval de la Casa Blanca, en Washington. (AP Foto/Ben Curtis)

Opinion: Experts once thought highly of Biden’s presidency. Here’s how his legacy is likely to change

Jan. 19, 2025

Los Angeles, CA - January 12: Palisades Charter Elementary who school was destroyed by fire in the Pacific Palisades on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

Column: The Palisades fire took their classroom. Their teacher is trying to give it back to them

Jan. 19, 2025

Calmes: Biden delivered a new ‘Roaring ‘20s.’ Watch Trump try to take the credit

Jan. 19, 2025

Opinion: 5 lessons in kindness from outside L.A.’s evacuation zone

Jan. 18, 2025

Commentary: The ashes still drifting through L.A. are a valuable reminder

Jan. 17, 2025

Opinion: Los Angeles and the literature of the apocalypse

Jan. 17, 2025

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Jan. 16, 2025
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Opinion: L.A. was lucky, with lots of help fighting fires. But no one should count on luck

Jan. 15, 2025
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Opinion: California’s inmate firefighters deserve more than a raise. Make them employees

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Abcarian: California’s cycle of fiery destruction and reconstruction is longer than you might think

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Opinion: The fiery and icy weather of the West and East Coasts is no coincidence

Jan. 15, 2025
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Column: The U.S. should acquire Greenland (peacefully). But Trump saying so makes it harder

Jan. 14, 2025
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Opinion: After the surgeon general’s warning on alcohol, people of faith should rethink sacramental wine

Jan. 14, 2025
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Opinion: Conservatives like me fear Trump will break through guardrails that restrained him last time

Jan. 14, 2025
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Jan. 14, 2025
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Opinion: Beautiful Altadena’s one-of-a-kind town was destroyed. But we can rebuild

Jan. 14, 2025

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