Tag: Opinion

Recently, I had the chance to catch up with a friend from Los Angeles. She’s a political liberal and cast her vote for Kamala Harris last fall. As we talked, ...

Every generation has its parent whisperer. My mother and father had Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician who promoted the revolutionary idea that children should be cherished and held, not whipped or ...

Since the Eaton and Palisades fires, I keep hearing one question: “How can I help?” I live in North Pasadena and was evacuated. My family is fortunate that our house ...

Less than two weeks into this second Trump presidency, the fearmongering has already reached fever pitch. “He can’t do it!” the critics have invariably howled in decrying President Trump’s landmark ...

The recent Senate confirmation hearings for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented a striking scene that would confuse a time traveler from 10 years ago. Democratic lawmakers took turns excoriating a ...

Onetime Trump “true believer” Stephanie Grisham, former press secretary to both Donald and Melania, famously told a national TV audience during last summer’s Democratic National Convention that she knows firsthand ...

“The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts,” said President Trump in his second inaugural address, on Jan. 20, as he cited his foreign policy initiatives. The Gulf ...

While we’ve been distracted by wildfire tragedies, and the dizzying stream of Project 2025-inspired directives flowing from the Oval Office, we cannot forget that the Republican-led war on women’s reproductive ...

Kenneth Turan’s splendid book about Hollywood titans Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg is the first in 50 years to tell their story in a single volume. Part of Yale ...

Donald Trump has long complained that Democrats are better at sticking together than Republicans are. He’s already revisited this gripe. In meetings with Republican leaders from the House and Senate ...