Column: How Donald Trump’s second inauguration outdid the cruelty and excesses of his first
I really appreciated Monday’s unexpected call for unity in the Capitol rotunda, where MAGA insurrectionists mounted a deadly attack on ...
Tag: Op-Ed
Southern California’s past can play a role in rebuilding for the future
Grief blew in as the fires continued to rage. Many people have lost everything; the rest of us mourn with ...
Column: Donald Trump is president again. Did you feel the vibe shift?
As a second Trump administration dawns — or, for his opponents, descends — on America, an interesting and unusual discussion ...
It’s time to relearn the lessons of Thomas Paine’s ‘Common Sense’
The 2024 presidential election painted a dismal picture — a country split red and blue, a near-even divide, reminding us ...
Calmes: Biden delivered a new ‘Roaring ’20s.’ Watch Trump try to take the credit
Poor Donald Trump. Twice elected president only to have to clean up the economic messes left to him by Democrats. ...
Column: The Palisades fire took their classroom. Their teacher is trying to give it back to them
First-grade teacher Jean De Longe had no time to waste when she arrived at Brentwood Elementary Science Magnet early Wednesday ...
Experts once thought highly of Biden’s presidency. Here’s how his legacy is likely to change
Our survey of presidential experts a year ago drew attention for ranking Joe Biden 14th among the presidents, ahead of ...
If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive, how would he have approached the Trump era?
Unlike the many people who are upset that Donald Trump is being inaugurated on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I ...
5 lessons in kindness from outside L.A.’s evacuation zone
The fires have tested but also reinforced my belief that we create beauty from life’s challenges. Here are five lessons ...
Los Angeles and the literature of the apocalypse
I don’t believe in prescience. I don’t believe, for instance, that when Octavia E. Butler began to write her 1993 ...
