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How did we allow ourselves to get to this point?
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A computer scientist who studies the alt-right is searching for signs that they plan another attack.
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The Republican Party — my party — can no longer tolerate a leader who operates so clearly outside the bounds of democratic norms.
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No private company is obligated to hand over its own platform to a president in the supposed interest of newsworthiness and history.
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If the Republicans are to survive as a political party, their leaders must start telling the truth — the first being that Biden won a free and fair election.
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Op-Ed: The GOP likes to tar Democrats as radical extremists. But look at who incited an insurrection
Op-Ed: The GOP likes to tar Democrats as radical extremists. But look at who incited an insurrection
The only ‘radical’ elements America witnessed this week were the words and actions of those in the Republican Party.
Enter the Fray
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A president who trashed democracy is unfit to participate in its rituals.
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Opinion: If the Senate had removed Trump a year ago, no one would have died in the Capitol this week
Opinion: If the Senate had removed Trump a year ago, no one would have died in the Capitol this week
Whose sin is bigger, President Trump’s for fomenting rebellion, or Mitch McConnell’s for protecting Trump from being removed after his impeachment?
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Every member of Congress on the ballot in 2022 who backed Trump’s lie that he won reelection must be voted out in a bipartisan rejection of Trumpism.
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The Trump administration hands another gift to industry: a rule to limit the scope of scientific studies the EPA could use in forming regulations.
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Republicans in Pennsylvania seem eager to thwart the will of the state’s voters in the 2020 presidential election.
Here are the Los Angeles Times’ editorial board endorsements for president, California ballot measures and more.
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We’re likely stuck for several more days with a president who incited violent revolt, plus more from the week in Opinion.
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Op-Ed: The GOP likes to tar Democrats as radical extremists. But look at who incited an insurrection
Op-Ed: The GOP likes to tar Democrats as radical extremists. But look at who incited an insurrection
The only ‘radical’ elements America witnessed this week were the words and actions of those in the Republican Party.
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The Republican Party — my party — can no longer tolerate a leader who operates so clearly outside the bounds of democratic norms.
The storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob and the failed response by law enforcement spoke again to a nation cleaved into two different Americas.
Where were these fearless Republicans during the whole erratic, un-American, anti-democratic tenure of the worst president in modern American history?
President Trump captained an attempted coup. Sen. Ted Cruz sounded the marching orders. Deluded foot soldiers tried to carry it out.
It is plainly in the national interest to remove President Trump from the White House and keep him from ever holding office again.
Nearly 70% of teachers have federal student loan debt, including me. We need Biden to set up a generous student loan forgiveness program.
Eliminating Section 230 would do nothing to increase accountability or transparency on Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms.
Trump’s acolytes in Congress mortgaged their integrity out of self-interest. Can they pull back from the brink?
Trump deserves to be prosecuted for inciting a riot, and his cultists all need to face the wrath of the legal system.
An old scare tactic was at the heart of runoff elections in the two Senate races in Georgia and in November’s presidential race as well.
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As the country grapples with the role of systemic racism, The Times has committed to examining its past.
All presidential elections are uniquely consequential, but a good case can be made that the next one is the most important of our lives. The time has come to undo the great mistake of 2016 and drive Trump out of office at the ballot box.
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A six-part series from the editorial board on the humanitarian crisis unfolds in our streets.
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It’s not a fight over principle. Trump’s complaints about the bill don’t rise to that level.
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The Supreme Court says it’s too early in the process to rule on Trump’s effort to strip unauthorized immigrants from census reapportionment numbers. Bad call.
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Obama, Kamala Harris are children of immigrants. Would voters elect a descendant of American slaves?
Obama, Kamala Harris are children of immigrants. Would voters elect a descendant of American slaves?
Are ‘elevated minorities’ like Barack Obama and Kamala Harris the only Black people America is willing to put in charge?
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Reckoning with the social and racial inequities of the justice system also means confronting the unjust and inhumane nature of capital punishment.
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Chinese authorities typically jail dissidents around Christmas when the world is distracted. In 2020, Beijing acted like it was Christmas all year.
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Trump has made clear, in his phone call to Georgia, that he is willing to steal an election he lost fair and square.
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COVID relief payments distributed to all U.S. citizens embody a “from us, for us” approach that could help unite the nation.
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The political system more than the legal system must make Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Donald Trump pay for trying to hijack democracy.
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Robert Baden-Powell espoused imperialist, racist beliefs, but the local mountain named after him commemorates the good he did.
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From endemic racism to anti-democratic leadership, readers identify the ills of America that were exposed by the Jan. 6 putsch in Washington.
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John C. Eastman deserves to be removed from his position at Chapman University after his actions on Jan. 6, say colleagues.
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The argument that giving out universal COVID-19 relief payments would aid social cohesion ignores certain realities about American society.
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Early rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine has been slow and confusing
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The Supreme Court shouldn’t use a cheerleader’s case to restrict students’ speech
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It’s no coincidence that China chose a volatile and sensitive time in America to round up pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong.
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A day after a pro-Trump mob wilded through the Capitol, Americans need assurance that the president will do no further damage to the republic.
