Install
The L.A. Times is a leading source of breaking news, entertainment, sports, politics, and more for Southern California and the world.
- 1,789articles · 30d
- 11+ hour agolatest article
- Aug 15, 2026earliest in window
- 88%with images
- 331avg words
- Politics 435
- News 403
- Sports & Fitness 359
- Sports 330
- Sport 318
- Sensitive Subjects 315
- Politics2 285
- Arts, Culture, Entertainment & Media 267
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Commentary: A political farewell to one of the best friends Social Security ever had in Congress
3+ week, 6+ day ago (1235+ words) The youth movement among our political leaders, especially among Democrats, is in full cry....On the whole, this looks to be a positive inflection point in our political leadership, empowering a...
Commentary: Medicare for All is back on the political front burner.
1+ week, 4+ day ago (866+ words) over that time span to look like a quixotic effort has lately gained a new foothold in Democratic politics...
Contributor: U.S. standing on human rights is falling fast, driven by failures at home
2+ week, 5+ day ago (596+ words) been a relatively poor performer across many of these rights for quite some time, regardless of the political...Human Rights Measurement Initiative (which I co-founded) show that in 2025 the country’s civil and political...integrity rights — such as the rights to…...
Pratt voters could play pivotal role in deciding L.A.’s next mayor
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (1392+ words) “The Pratt vote is of critical importance,” said Dan Schnur, a former Republican political consultant...who now is a professor of political communications at USC, UC Berkeley and Pepperdine....gain one vote and lose one, two or more votes from…...
California backtracks on good-government policies in divided Trump era
4+ week, 12+ hour ago (1506+ words) continuous acrimony in the state Capitol, California voters in 2010 started taking action to temper political...Sacramento lawmakers, as well as a new “top-two” primary system intended to stifle the power of the major political...
Commentary: Dolly Parton stood up for undocumented immigrants when few others would
2+ week, 4+ day ago (870+ words) It’s one of the few times she so explicitly addressed politics, which she famously and repeatedly said...Honoring the undocumented and decrying their persecutors at the height of her career, against political...
Contributor: How to prevent future U.S. attorneys general from being subservient attack dogs
3+ week, 6+ day ago (562+ words) the attorney general may be the only way to tether the president’s power to order prosecutions of political...come together on a plan to ensure the next attorney general does not become the next president’s political...
Editorial: Vote no on Prop. 40. It ignores education, housing and safety
1+ week, 1+ day ago (652+ words) programs become dependent on a revenue source, “temporary” taxes have a way of becoming permanent political...If one interest group can write a tax measure, target a politically unpopular group and dedicate the...
Commentary: “Help Wanted/Leave Now!” How U.S. immigration policy remains maddeningly consistently inconsistent
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (1736+ words) The U.S. border with Mexico represents a political borderline but it cannot sever many decades of complicated...shifting to and fro on deciding and enforcing that, depending on the American economy, and American politics...roots, become members of the community, and…...
Column: Two good ideas from Republicans dead on arrival in Democratic Legislature
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (929+ words) But it’s logical for the secretary of state to officially operate as a political nonpartisan — as does...