Opinion: How Alabama’s IVF ruling unmasks the hypocrisy of antiabortion zealots
We don’t know whether former Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, had any leftover embryos after they availed themselves of the advanced reproductive…
Opinion: Will development turn L.A.’s last solidly Black city white?
Living in Inglewood these days is living in tension about change. Like many other places in and around L.A., its core is being transformed by…
Opinion: The court’s won’t hold Trump accountable, so voters must
Well, my fellow Americans, it’s up to us to hold Donald Trump accountable at the ballot box. We can’t count on the courts before election…
Kids should be encouraged to savour every single minute of their childhood instead of spending hours in a beauty salon
THE fluttering of fake eyelashes is now commonplace – and if I had time to keep up with the maintenance, I would get some. As…
Opinion: How did a Moroccan pirate queen become the ‘Spirit of California’?
A Diego Rivera mural titled “The Allegory of California” hides in a private staircase inside the City Club of San Francisco. It depicts a woman…
Opinion: Why don’t rational GOP leaders keep quiet instead of endorsing Trump?
The Republican Party’s transformation into an anti-government populist movement has been a bottom-up phenomenon: Conservative voters, radicalized by right-wing radio, Fox News, social media and…
Opinion: After Dobbs, Republicans promised to redefine ‘pro-life.’ How’s that working out?
It’s not yet spring, but think ahead to June. Kids will be out of school, and we’ll mark the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s…
Opinion: A carve out could wreck California coastal protections
If the coast of California is a state asset worth trillions of dollars — and it is — why is the state agency that has…
Opinion: Nikki Haley can still beat Trump. Just not by winning the nomination
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley reached a decision point after her loss in January’s New Hampshire Republican primary. She could travel the path of…
Opinion: Republicans trying to impeach Biden don’t notice the egg on their faces
Now we know what a real Russia hoax looks like: very much like House Republicans’ stumbling effort to impeach President Biden. The current GOP misadventure…
Alabama judges say embryos are people. Blame the U.S. Supreme Court
The Alabama Supreme Court’s breathtakingly arrogant, slapdash and pernicious opinion conferring personhood on newly formed embryos vividly illustrates the consequences of another reckless decision: the…
Opinion: Should a firefighter save a frozen embryo in a fire?
The bizarre decision handed down last week by the Alabama Supreme Court, which ruled that frozen human embryos are people too, is the reductio ad…
Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are ‘children’
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, a ruling critics said could have sweeping…
Opinion: No, Donald Trump does not equal Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny didn’t simply die. He wasn’t just murdered. He was tortured to death. It didn’t happen on the rack or mid-beating, but Vladimir Putin…
Opinion: Is it Washington’s holiday or do we celebrate all 45 presidents?
On calendars, it’s Presidents’ Day, or no apostrophe: Presidents Day. To the federal government, it’s Washington’s Birthday. But California really gets festive. California lists the…
Opinion: Blocking Ukraine aid is no way to put America dirst
For Presidents Day, the House is taking two weeks off. But first the Republicans who misrule the place honored their favorite president by blocking desperately…
Opinion: Fani Willis’s bad judgment has endangered her case and the nation
At this point, it doesn’t really matter whether Fulton County Dist. Atty. Fani Willis benefited financially from her relationship with Nathan Wade, the outside prosecutor…
Opinion: Single mothers are easy scapegoats. But the case for marriage is a myth
I am happier as a single mother than I ever was as a married one. Despite the fact that 47% of Americans think single mothers…
Opinion: Before Los Angeles gets a new police chief, here’s what we need to know
The next chief of the Los Angeles Police Department will need to be a turnaround wizard. But she or he is unlikely to be handed…
Opinion: Biden’s polls aren’t great. How much is the media’s fault?
Long before Fox News co-opted the phrase “fair and balanced” as its slogan, American media was striving to meet that standard. Unlike Faux News, which…