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To the editor: As we learn of hundreds of young men hauled off in shackles -- with zero due process -- to a brutal El Salvadorian prison, it is clear that cruelty is not a byproduct, but rather the point for this administration ("They were called ...

The Trump administration's horrific war on higher education evokes the McCarthyist purges of the mid-20th century. But diversity statements are just another loyalty oath.

The first branch of government should stop or empower Trump's use of the Enemy Aliens Act. Instead, Congress chooses to heckle from the cheap seats.

Republicans don't seem the least bit bothered by the latest breach, a letter writer says. Another cites the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

The Trump administration is playing a losing game of whack-a-mole trying to silence the growing chorus of critics.

Another reader writes of 'Orcas and other animals around the world starving to death for lack of salmon.'

A reader makes clear that we should not forget the Native Americans who once populated Marin County.

My grandfather was a Nazi. The U.S. may have absolved him as a fellow traveler, but I'm still left to wrestle with generational guilt.

Those who favor supportive housing call on L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and other city officials to lean into the Venice Dell project. Another is against it.

Generous labor pact, one of the richest in city history, agreed to last year with city's coalition now appears ill-advised.