She writes the sweetest country songs. Also, the dirtiest viral hit of 2025.
When songwriter Laura Veltz meets with young singers, she likes to tell them something that might sound counterintuitive: “You don’t...
I moved my family from the US to Malta. Living on a small island has some unexpected conveniences.
Christopher Mannino left the US and brought his family to the Mediterranean island Malta. Courtesy of Christopher ManninoChristopher Mannino moved...
Where to go in 2026, without crowds
More than 1.5 billion people traveled internationally last year, according to a United Nations estimate. Depending on where you went...
The dismaying response to a new Alex Pretti video
Last Wednesday, a video surfaced of Alex Pretti kicking out the taillight of an ICE vehicle, 11 days before Border...
Pay More Attention to A.I.
On a recent snowbound day I took up “Conquistadores,” Fernando Cervantes’s history of the European arrival in the New World,...
Fighting to survive, an Altadena water company is charging a new ‘fire recovery fee’
When the Eaton fire raged through neighborhoods in Altadena, the flames leveled three-quarters of the homes served by the tiny...
LAPD’s relationship with federal authorities under scrutiny as criticism of ICE grows
After the recent shootings of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, some police chiefs...
The Midterm Elections Need You. Here’s How to Help.
Election integrity in the United States can be a fraught subject. Merely raising the prospect that a future election might...
ICE Took Their Classmate. They Started Writing Letters.
“You are scaring schools, people and the world,” one student at View Valley Elementary, just outside Minneapolis, wrote to Immigration...
Houston runoff sets up next Democratic generational fight
HOUSTON — House Republicans’ slim majority will be even leaner after Saturday, when Democrats vote to fill the Texas seat...
