Los Angeles Timesflipped into NationNowFamine threatens wide swaths of world, now worsened by Ukraine warverified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Tracy WilkinsonWASHINGTON — The scenes witnessed by journalists and humanitarian workers in recent months have been striking: In Sudan, swollen-bellied babies are looking for anything to eat. In Yemen, where warring parties have blocked humanitarian aid, hollow-eyed children and their mothers languish on the brink …
Los Angeles Timesflipped into WorldNowTokyo warned of possible power crunch as Japan endures heat waveverified_publisherLos Angeles Times - MARI YAMAGUCHITOKYO — Residents of Tokyo are sweating it out as the Japanese government warns of possible power shortages and urges greater efforts to conserve energy while the country endures unseasonably hot temperatures. Weather officials announced the earliest end to the annual summer rainy season since the …
Los Angeles Timesflipped into OpinionNowOp-Ed: As a former sex worker, I know how anti-loitering laws target the wrong peopleverified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Chris BelcherFor eight years, I worked as a professional dominatrix. As a financially strapped graduate student for six of those years, I took sessions at hotels during academic conferences. At one such conference, I passed some time chatting with a woman on Tinder. She proposed that we meet at my hotel that …
Los Angeles Timesflipped into SportsNowCommentary: How Wimbledon legend Jack Kramer ended ‘shamateurism’ and ignited pro tennis movementverified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Bill DwyreIn the 1940s and ‘50s, the tennis stars of the world found their gold only on trophy figurines and engraved bowls. Jack Kramer was one of those tennis stars then, and he had a plan to change that. Seventy-five years ago, in the summer of 1947, he began his plan by winning the men’s singles title at …
Los Angeles Timesflipped into OpinionNowOp-Ed: Republicans are banning books about historical truths their own leaders have apologized forverified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Samuel G. FreedmanOn a recent outing my wife and I took in a touring exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution titled “Righting a Wrong.” Within the modest confines of a single room at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, the exhibit conveyed an epic tragedy: the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans and …
Los Angeles Timesflipped into OpinionNowColumn: Are Joe Biden and Dianne Feinstein too old to do their jobs?verified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Nicholas GoldbergIn last week’s issue of New York magazine, two photos of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) are laid out side by side. In the first, from 1971, she is smiling broadly, hair bobbed, wearing pearls — the first female president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She’s about 38 years old. On the …
