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The only affordable property is often in low-lying areas at flood risk, such as in Houston and coastal Texas, or in higher-wildfire-risk areas, such as in California foothills and canyons.

As some states have tried with clean energy projects, California should empower a state official to approve important large developments without giving counties and cities a veto.

As a palliative care doctor, I hear patients and families say they don't want any 'heroics,' just quality-of-life care. That's a false binary.

The president has faced a string of failures and setbacks during his first year back in office. Now his hold on his party seems to be slipping.

Sports-TV debates and legalized gambling are drowning out the love of the games.

The very same forces that failed Epstein's victims continue to fail thousands of others.

The fall-winter holiday season harks back to an America that was always rooted in man's permanent sources of meaning.

If Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to rehabilitate her image, 'first she needs to publicly and sincerely apologize for her incessant and immature hounding of Parkland shooting survivor turned gun control advocate David Hogg,' writes an L.A. Times reader ...

'Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer was diabolical as Katharine, hilarious and villainous at once. Joanna "JoJo" Levesque brought real gumption to Tess, with beautiful, strong vocals,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'County and city governments are signing off on new homes in fire danger zones at a dizzying pace, without proper evacuation planning or home-hardening resources,' writes an L.A. Times reader.