To the editor: I read with interest the article on Harvard limiting the number of A’s (“Harvard faculty votes to make it more difficult for […]
Category: Opinion
Contributor: Human wars are displacing and killing hidden nations of animals
Upon returning home from his time as a volunteer ambulance driver in World War I, naturalist Henry Beston famously described wild animals as “other nations, […]
Attacks on the ACA are reversing progress that helped cancer patients
To the editor: As a longtime cancer patient diagnosed in 2006 before the introduction of the Affordable Care Act, I knew several patients who died […]
Letters to the Editor: The status of the CalSHAPE program isn’t decided by utilities
To the editor: This recent op-ed is misleading (“Use designated money to cool California schools, not to enrich utilities,” May 28). The California Schools Healthy […]
Letters to the Editor: L.A. should grant a larger percentage of the budget to its local parks
To the editor: Thanks to columnist Patt Morrison for her wonderful history of some of our parks and the lack of parks in the city […]
Letters to the Editor: Setbacks to Trump’s $1.8-billion fund prove he’s not immune to outrage
To the editor: The news that the Trump regime is backing away from its plan to set up a nearly $1.8-billion slush fund for those […]
Contributor: U.S. lead in science is shrinking fast as China, India and even Iran catch up
A country with one of the fastest-rising scientific profiles operates under sweeping international sanctions, has limited access to Western research infrastructure and is rarely mentioned […]
Contributor: California is at the center of the fight against Parkinson’s
What will it take to cure Parkinson’s disease? It’s one of the first questions I asked when I was diagnosed in 1991, and one that […]
Contributor: How Democrats drifted away from the working class
Since 2016, when Donald Trump shattered the Democrats’ blue wall by winning working-class voters across the Midwest, a cottage industry has sprung up on the […]
Column: Trump is stuck between two realities. Neither serves the American people
Normally, I worry that events may overtake a column. But not so with the Iran war. I don’t worry about running afoul of a headline […]