January 24, 2025, 6:01am Columns
Like a monarch returning from exile, Donald Trump resumed the presidency that voters so inconveniently interrupted four years ago by moving promptly to return his familiar brand to both its policies and character. Read story
January 23, 2025, 6:01am Columns
There are a lot of known unknowns about how Republicans will approach the major tax and spending issues facing the new Congress. But one thing is clear: Low-income Americans are going to be in the crosshairs. Read story
January 22, 2025, 6:01am Columns
With celebrations marking the start of a new Legislature with a new governor capturing most of the attention around the Capitol this month, advocates of gun rights and gun safety measures were probably more focused on something else. Read story
January 21, 2025, 6:01am Columns
When Donald Trump took over the White House back in January 2017, an appalled opposition started a movement called “the resistance.” Read story
January 20, 2025, 6:01am Columns
We recall the catastrophic fires in Maui almost two years ago, then the horde of unusually violent hurricanes trashing Florida’s west coast. To the surprise of many, those storms unleashed cataclysmic flooding in western North Carolina, up there in the mountains. Read story
January 20, 2025, 6:01am Columns
Donald Trump got the sentence he deserved. Read story
January 20, 2025, 6:01am Columns
President-elect Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House sparks a pressing question: Can the guardrails of American democracy survive another four years of the only U.S. president who sought to undermine the peaceful transfer of power? Read story
January 20, 2025, 6:01am Columns
Is Donald Trump going to risk throwing the global economy into crisis by enacting the gargantuan tariffs he’s proposed? Or is he just pretending he’s willing to do that to strike a better deal? Read story
January 20, 2025, 6:01am Columns
There have been too many deaths, too many complaints and too many lawsuits against Washington counties over actions or inactions in jails for state lawmakers to look the other way. Read story
January 20, 2025, 6:01am Columns
For the first time in memory, everyone around here either knows someone or is someone who has lost a home or been dislocated by the fires that have scarred so much of our beloved Los Angeles. Read story