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Opinion: Smartphones have silenced kids, and that isn’t a good thing. Hooray for LAUSD’s ban

Opinion: Kill Joshua trees for a desert solar project? Readers want none of it

Letters to the Editor: Slow, electrified cars that don’t kill anyone? Autopia should be everywhere

Opinion: We had high hopes for this Senate race. Now, ‘rigged’ is being thrown around

Opinion: Republicans don’t like California. Readers’ response: Whatever

Opinion: Secret Agent Swift vs. Trump — readers on this bizarre political moment

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Letters to the Editor: Thank God Trump is OK. Now, let’s stop escalating our polarization

‘I pray for the safety of Donald Trump, JD Vance, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,’ says a reader who calls for more civility in political rhetoric.
Sept. 17, 2024

Letters to the Editor: PETA’s anti-beekeeping stance is anti-science

A beekeeper of 40 years says PETA’s insistence that harvesting surplus honey from beehives amounts to theft ignores the science of food production.
Sept. 17, 2024

Letters to the Editor: Beekeeping is theft. Let bees have their own honey

A fire in Modesto believed to have been started by a beehive smoker shows the folly of trying to steal the honey that bees make for themselves.
Sept. 16, 2024

Letters to the Editor: L.A.’s ‘mansion tax’ hits a lot more than just mansions -- and it hurts renters

Putting a tax on all real estate sales above $5.1 million has put a damper on new apartment construction in Los Angeles.
Sept. 16, 2024

Letters to the Editor: Trump can win. There is something wrong with our nation

The presidential debate showed Trump has lost touch with reality. If he is truly in a strong position to win, our nation is in trouble.
Sept. 16, 2024

Letters to the Editor: Another Solyndra in the Mojave, but with dead Joshua trees?

A solar power project wasn’t actually “shovel ready,” despite what the builder said -- not good when precious Joshua trees are being killed.
Sept. 16, 2024

Letters to the Editor: Taylor Swift should remember that Republicans buy her music too

Michael Jordan famously said that “Republicans buy sneakers too.” Taylor Swift, who just endorsed Kamala Harris, is going in a different direction.
Sept. 15, 2024

Letters to the Editor: This satirical letter on the Harris-Trump debate was one for the ages

A reader says one short letter in the L.A. Times written by an immigrant perfectly summed up the absurdity of the Harris-Trump debate.
Sept. 15, 2024

Letters to the Editor: Trump said something racist about Haitians. It wasn’t his first time

In 2018, Trump vilified Haiti and African nations. Now, he’s falsely saying immigrants from Haiti are eating Americans’ pets.
Sept. 15, 2024

Letters to the Editor: An imperial presidency? So much for small-government conservatism

If the founders were concerned about a too-powerful president, what would they say about the conservative groups backing Donald Trump?
Sept. 15, 2024

Letters to the Editor: Nine years after Trump emerged, some readers are making fun of him

After Trump’s bizarre statements at his debate with Harris, some readers are taking a new approach to criticizing the former president: They’re making fun of him.
Sept. 14, 2024

Letters to the Editor: We had fire drills. Kids today have active shooter drills. This is insane

Gun violence is the biggest killer of children in the U.S., necessitating active shooter drills in schools. We’ve failed our children.
Sept. 13, 2024