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'The smart and honorable thing would have been to leave the plane secretly and fly off, while simultaneously having everyone else disembark from Air Force One so it would be clear he was no longer present,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

Recent legislation in Sacramento creates new obstacles to diversion, forcing judges to send more people to inappropriate settings where they won't get better.

The losses at the height of the pandemic were real. The peril and exhaustion of essential workers. No effort to punish Anthony Fauci changes any of that.

Suddenly we have a new measure of how much women and minorities (and immigrants) contribute to protecting America: the casualty toll in Trump's war against Iran.

'Born in the Philippines, at 2 months old he lived in a trailer near the United Farm Worker's offices. Bonta was high school valedictorian, graduated cum laude from Yale, studied at Oxford and earned a juris doctorate from Yale,' writes an L.A. Times ...

'Do we really need AI? I don't believe so; its costs to society seem to far outweigh its benefits,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'The city's anti-camping law, L.A. Municipal Code 41.18 ... should have been amended several years ago to prohibit any returns to these zones once they are cleared the first time, with penalties of arrests and jail time for violations,' writes an L.A ...

'Over time, government institutions essentially become monopolies with no threat of failure to keep them focused on their purpose, and they will never solve a problem that would be against their institutional interest,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'One additional option, not to be overlooked, is to book a night's stay at the Queen Mary, which is directly beside the F&M Amphitheater,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'Cutting off aid and munitions would be a start to ensure that Israel abides by international law and stops the daily killing of women and children,' writes an L.A. Times reader.