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What you see out in the open is bad enough. It's what you don't see, or can't identify, that's more disturbing in the land of the free.

Sacramento's lack of a business-friendly focus has forced even homegrown industries to take manufacturing, with its high-paying middle- and working-class jobs, to Texas, Arizona, Florida and beyond.

The question is not whether predators such as Jeffrey Epstein exist, but whether we will listen to their victims and do something about what we hear.

'In addition to Chagas, American Red Cross also screens blood donations for other infectious diseases including HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Syphilis, West Nile virus and Zika virus,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'I think we'd all like to wake up every day and not have to wait and wonder what the next evil, and/or borderline illegal, action the federal government is doing to us, our friends and our neighbors,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'Both loans can be your primary residence when they are taken out, but if you move, you have a new primary residence. This whole "mortgage fraud" thing is absolute nonsense,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

A tale of two Republican doctor-senators shows how the party has changed.

After serving in Iraq and Syria, I know the look of armed patrols. I never expected to see that same look on the subway in our own capital.

The president recently bragged that he can do "whatever I want."

'If a civilian had fired into a truck with a family inside, charges would be swift. When government agents do it, silence is the response,' writes an L.A. Times reader.