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By hiring a lobbyist as her chief of staff, Councilmember Ysabel Jurado indicates it's business as usual for scandal-plagued District 14.

Loyola Marymount political scientist Fernando Guerra points out that vote totals in Downey might not show an embrace of Trump among Latinos.

Conservative Christians and liberal Christians may have different expressions of their faith, but that doesn't make one group more right than the other.

Building more nuclear power and scaling back fossil fuels will increase energy costs, but do we want to save the planet or not?

Southern California air quality officials have again failed to adopt rules to clean pollution at the ports of L.A. and Long Beach, backing down in the face of opposition from organized labor and business interests.

I am fully confident that Americans in uniform will honor the highest duty we swore, which is to the Constitution.

Getting a tax break on income above $168,600 is nice, but retirees living on Social Security need that money more than wealthier workers do.

Pico-Robertson has become more Orthodox over the years. A Jewish reader says it's no surprise that the neighborhood swung to Trump.

Israel's destruction of Gaza goes far beyond self-defense, says a reader. What additional evidence is required to identify a genocide?

Allegations against high-end real estate agents, music moguls and Donald Trump and his inner circle suggest sexual violence against women remains pervasive.