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How do I know? Because we've been here before, watching the fiasco of Trump's first-term trade war with China.

As my daughter becomes more of her own person apart from me, I see my sense of humor reflected back across the growing divide.

Murderers star in books, podcasts, TV shows about the crimes. But it's their victims, and those who loved them, who deserve the spotlight.

Immigration and births aren't keeping up with the Golden Staters decamping for Texas and other states that boast a better cost of living.

During the years of our supposed economic captivity, the American economy became the envy of the world. So now we ... don't want that?

Americans are famously tolerant of other people's suffering, but they have an extremely low tolerance for their own. And more and more Americans are feeling the pain.

A reader expresses empathy for those who lost their homes in Malibu but believes that the views belong to everyone.

I grew up in a home where that trauma hung in the air like smoke from the cigarettes chain-smoked by my mother -- a civil servant fired without cause in the McCarthy era.

To the editor: George Skelton, in his March 24 column ("Newsom's dilemma after providing Medi-Cal to undocumented immigrants"), misses the key point.

Don't we all want better for all people who are this impoverished? Los Angeles cannot thrive if there is one community of people safely in homes and another forced onto the sidewalks.