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After the justices brought Trump one step closer to shaking Jan. 6 charges, readers respond.

Readers weigh in on whether Democrats need a new candidate as concern trails Biden's disappointing debate performance.

Readers weigh in on the U.S. Supreme Court's role in shaping fair gun laws.

Opioid overdoses are depriving hundreds of thousands of children of parents, with especially dire consequences for Black families in Southern California.

The court ruled in favor of an Oregon city blocking homeless people from sleeping in the city.

American freedom was born on July 2, 1776 — not the Fourth — and reborn on the same date in 1964 with the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

Forest management won't be enough to avoid such casualties, but officials can take steps to adapt to this new reality and protect Californians.

The president's disastrous debate has supporters circling the wagons — and sounding a lot like the opposite party in their attempts to excuse his shortcomings.

The conservative justices granted presidents broad protection for official acts. That appears to include much of the conduct in the federal Jan. 6 indictment.

Our critic Charles McNulty found wisdom in the classics amid election woes. Here's what our readers think.

The Supreme Court's decision, along partisan lines, does away with the principle that no one is above the law.

"Grown Women," Sarai Johnson's debut novel, explores whether cycles of family violence can really end.

The Republican-appointed majority's rhetoric says the president isn't above the law, but its decision in Trump's immunity case says differently.

A reader who was with her late wife for 33 years says she watched her siblings go through numerous divorces and marriages.

Two back-to-back letters in the L.A. Times show how the draft affected young people differently during the Vietnam War.

The Supreme Court this term didn't make matters worse for pregnant women facing life-threatening emergencies. Or did it?

A ballot initiative to make it easier to build publicly funded housing in the state was just dropped -- so what now, California?

The last, best hope of theocrats is that the conservative Supreme Court will rule in favor of laws like Louisiana's Ten Commandments rule.

Americans nationwide — Democrats mostly, but small-d democrats, too — bewailed new court decisions and suffered from debate shock.

It is said that the biggest obstacle to filming in the state of California is the state of California. FilmLA's permit fee increase proves it.

Protesters have the right to protect themselves — against COVID-19 and reprisals — by wearing masks. Banning them is wrong.

Democrats have kept hard-left members from taking over their party. Republicans have been consumed by their hard-right faction.

The editor of Streetsblog L.A. says that while Metro has security concerns, a ridership 'doom spiral' isn't one of them.

Supreme Court ruling in Grants Pass case allows cities to criminalize people for being poor. How does it solve homelessness by fining or jailing people for sleeping outside if they have no choice?

In Samuel Kọ́láwọlé's debut novel, he shares a harrowing migration story of a young man named Able God, who wrestles with religion and Western insistence on positive manifestation.

The court's opinion in Fischer vs. United States narrows the definition of an obstruction statute used against the Capitol rioters as well as the former president.

The homelessness and 'Chevron deference' Supreme Court decisions change law for the worse. They never would have happened if Hillary Clinton had won in 2016.

The president's appearance was far worse than the substance of what he said, while Donald Trump offered a forceful presentation of lies and nonsense.

For the rest of the campaign, Biden needs to do more — and not just on the debate stage — to defend his record. The stakes for the nation are too high.

Trump lied aggressively. Biden was often at a loss for words. Which would you rather have as president?