Los Angeles TimesOpinion Opinion: I recently took part in my first ‘active killer’ school drill. It was as terrifying as it was misguidedLos Angeles Times - Tal AbbadyOne day last winter, before Florida passed a law allowing teachers to carry guns in schools, my high school students were settling into the languid routines of study hall. Some asked for library passes.
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Cleaning up Trump’s messLos Angeles Times - The Times Editorial BoardThe next presidential election will be about character and fitness to lead the nation above all else. But the Democratic primary will also be a contest of ideas, which helps explain why the candidates
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Beating Trump — a Times editorial series - Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesThere is no issue more important than driving Donald Trump out of office at the ballot box in 2020. Amidst the impeachment inquiry, it’s important not to forget the full sweep of the damage Donald Trump
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Undoing the great mistake of 2016Los Angeles Times - The Times Editorial BoardAs the 2020 election approaches, the United States is deeply and bitterly polarized, shaken by acts of random and not-so-random violence, with wages still rising too slowly, income inequality continuing
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Moderate and progressive Democrats have to unite to win back the White House in 2020Los Angeles Times - The Times Editorial BoardThe battle for the soul of the Democratic Party is underway. What’s it to be — progressive or moderate? Passionate or pragmatic? Left or less left? Will voters embrace the party’s more radical wing and
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Trump’s presidency is a trainwreck. Let us count the waysLos Angeles Times - The Times Editorial BoardIn the corrosive and dangerous Trump presidency, the outrages fly so fast and the chaos mounts so thoroughly that it’s easy to pass off the entire unsettling phenomenon as one more made-for-TV-and-Twitter
Los Angeles TimesOpinion How old is too old to be president?Los Angeles Times - The Times Editorial BoardIf Elizabeth Warren were to be elected president next year, she would be 71 on Inauguration Day. Joe Biden would be 77. Bernie Sanders would be 79. In other words, if elected, any of the three leading
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Democrats need to talk honestly about race. But can they?Los Angeles Times - The Times Editorial BoardRace is going to be a crucial issue in the 2020 election. Or if it isn’t, it ought to be. Partly that’s because of Donald Trump. He has shamelessly exploited ethnic and racial divides for cynical political
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Sorry, ‘electability’ mattersLos Angeles Times - The Times Editorial BoardWith an incumbent president like ours, it is no surprise that many American voters look at the current crop of Democratic challengers and say, “I’d be happy if any one of them were to win.” It’s a perfectly
Los Angeles TimesDevin Nunes Column: Devin Nunes sued a fake cow. And kept suing and suing and suing...Los Angeles Times - Robin AbcarianIt’s been a big legal year for Republican U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes of Tulare, who once co-sponsored the “Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act.” ¤ A stone fruit farmer in Dinuba, and two other people, for to
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Letters to the Editor: Sorry, pharmacy school grads, but California has standardsLos Angeles TimesTo the editor: The new pharmacy school graduates and hopeful licensees who followed all the rules but must retake the state exam because of a cheating scandal have my sympathy. Granted, this is an inopportune
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Letters to the Editor: Why the fascination with Mayor Pete when there are more qualified candidates?Los Angeles TimesTo the editor: It’s so frustrating to constantly hear how wonderful “Mayor Pete” is, and how he may be the best choice to take over after President Trump. (“Mayor Pete has the pedigree to clean up after
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Letters to the Editor: Trump’s bad spelling isn’t the problem; it’s that he’s too lazy to careLos Angeles TimesTo the editor: Amy Koss asserts that spelling-challenged people need our understanding rather than ridicule, but surely this should not apply to the president of the United States. In fact, Koss’ plea
Los Angeles TimesBrexit Party Opinion: Parliament to Prime Minister Boris Johnson: You can’t always get what you wantLos Angeles Times - Anne-Marie O’ConnorBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would rather be “dead in a ditch” than get an extension of Brexit, Britain’s long-running, messy divorce from the European Union. His worst fears came true
Los Angeles TimesMitt Romney Opinion: Will Mitt Romney fulfill a Mormon ‘prophecy’ and save the Constitution?Los Angeles Times - Judith FreemanMitt Romney has emerged as the Lone Ranger Republican, willing to speak out about our corrupt president. When the news of Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky broke, Romney said the situation
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Newsletter: Is there possibly, maybe, a Trump strategy on Syria?Los Angeles Times - Paul ThorntonGood morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019. Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion. There were about 1,000 U.S. troops in Syria working with allied forces, mostly Kurds,
Los Angeles Times Opinion: Evangelical Christians’ support for Trump mystifies readersLos Angeles Times - Paul ThorntonIt figures that on a topic having to do with eternity, the back-and-forth between our letter writers would be interminable. About two weeks ago, the L.A. Times published a short news article on the Rev.
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Letters to the Editor: They signed up to donate organs, not tissues to be sold for profitLos Angeles TimesTo the editor: I have carried a organ donor card in my wallet for 40 years. The No. 1 item on my bucket list has always been saving another person’s life, even if that happens only after my death. This
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Letters to the Editor: This isn’t the first time Trump has acted in Turkey’s interestLos Angeles TimesTo the editor: Jonah Goldberg glibly concludes that President Trump was “simply winging it” when he green-lit Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria and betrayed our Kurdish allies. This fails to connect
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Letters to the Editor: Democrats may be flawed, but at least they’re interested in governingLos Angeles TimesTo the editor: Steve Lopez’s column, “Republicans blame Democratic leadership for California’s problems. They have a point, but ...,” offered many salient points. As leader of the state Senate, I’d like
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Letters to the Editor: ‘Get over it’ says so much about Trump’s recklessnessLos Angeles TimesTo the editor: “Get over it” is a simplistic, thin response used by acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and this administration to defend actions that are indefensible. To execute foreign by
Los Angeles TimesTurkey Opinion: Turkey’s cease-fire in Syria won’t do a thing to ease Kurdish oppressionLos Angeles Times - Baki TezcanPresident Trump is wrong. Kurds have not been natural enemies of Turks, fighting for hundreds of years. In fact, Kurdish lords were allied with the Ottoman rulers against Iran in the early 16th century,
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Editorial: Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal makes the best of what’s still a terrible ideaLos Angeles Times - The Times Editorial BoardBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confounded his critics by reaching a last-minute agreement with the European Union on the terms of the United Kingdom’s departure from the EU. The agreement mostly
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Column: Mayor Pete has the pedigree to clean up after Trump. But is that enough to win in 2020?Los Angeles Times - Virginia HeffernanA day will come when this long national migraine is over. Or, if you like: A day will come when the national kidney stone that has brutally ravaged America’s psychic innards will have passed. Does that
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Letters to the Editor: Pete Buttigieg isn’t ‘cute.’ He’s a serious candidateLos Angeles TimesTo the editor: The debate “takeaway” related to Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., began on an off-putting note. It has to be said that at no time was Buttigieg
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Editorial: Mick Mulvaney and Gordon Sondland fill in the blanks on quid pro quo in UkraineLos Angeles TimesTwo of President Trump’s presumably loyal appointees painted an alarming picture Thursday of how Trump and lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani turned up the pressure on Ukraine to ensure its help with two politically
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Letters to the Editor: Of course Californians are pro-immigrant. Our history explains whyLos Angeles TimesTo the editor: It was thrilling to read the article about the recent poll of Californians in which more than 80% of us agreed with the statement that immigrants make the United States a better place to
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Letters to the Editor: Trump is bringing back the 1930s isolationism that gave us a world warLos Angeles TimesTo the editor: Doyle McManus’ column is a welcome effort to argue that President Trump does have foreign policy principles, and that the “chaos in Syria shows them in action.” Trump has shown some consistency
Los Angeles TimesOpinion Letters to the Editor: Trump is antiabortion. That alone explains why Christians favor himLos Angeles TimesTo the editor: Letter writers bemused by evangelical Christians’ support for President Trump seem to be missing the entire picture. Not one Democratic presidential candidate is antiabortion, and President
