Los Angeles Times1 hour agoOp-Ed: I didn’t plan to feed my baby formula — but I’m so glad I didverified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Steph ChaI’m 24 weeks pregnant, staring down a national formula shortage, just hoping it works itself out before the new baby arrives. My first child was born in April 2020, less than a month into COVID-19 lockdown. He arrived 3½ weeks early, starved out by my preeclampsia (a pregnancy complication that can …
Los Angeles Times1 hour agoOp-Ed: The best way to protect abortion rights? Finalize the Equal Rights Amendmentverified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Kate KellyWhen Roe vs. Wade was decided in 1973, it was rooted in rights that flow from privacy — not equality. As the country has now seen in the leaked Supreme Court draft ruling, that right to privacy is about to be demolished. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. bemoans in the draft opinion that Roe “was …
Los Angeles Times2 hours agoLetters to the Editor: Why it’s time to normalize relations with North Koreaverified_publisherLos Angeles TimesTo the editor: Daniel R. DePetris is right that North Korea is unlikely to give up the bomb. But offering economic incentives to cap Pyongyang’s nuclear development does not go far enough. The time has come for the United States to try to normalize relations. All nuclear-armed adversaries except the …
Los Angeles Times2 hours agoOp-Ed: A new generation is reviving unions. The old guard could helpverified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Steven GreenhouseThis is the most exciting — and promising — moment for the nation’s labor movement in decades thanks to the landmark union victories at Starbucks and Amazon, as well as the spread of union drives to well-known companies like Trader Joe’s and Apple. To find similar excitement about unions, one would …
Los Angeles Times2 hours agoLetters to the Editor: Democrats need to start acting more like Republicans to save democracyverified_publisherLos Angeles TimesTo the editor: At last! Former GOP operative Kurt Bardella points to the weak response of Democrats in Congress to Republican attacks on our democracy. Time and again we watch in amazement as Democratic leaders turn the other cheek to the Big Lie about the last election and the events of Jan. 6, …
Los Angeles Times1 day agoOp-Ed: Want to shape your bicultural child’s sense of self before society does? Lead them to booksverified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Meg MedinaAs I travel to speak at schools across the country, I am sometimes the first Latinx author students have ever interacted with, even in communities with high Latinx populations. If that seems unbelievable in a country where more than 62 million people identify as Hispanic or Latinx, consider that in …
