Opinion Voices https://www.latimes.com/opinion Opinion Voices en-US Sat, 19 Apr 2025 10:00:50 GMT Celebrating suffragists and trying to disenfranchise women? That takes some cognitive dissonance https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-19/save-act-women-immigrants-disenfranchise The SAVE Act, meant to suppress voting, perpetuates debunked anti-immigrant myths. Sat, 19 Apr 2025 10:00:50 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-19/save-act-women-immigrants-disenfranchise Trump's clash with Harvard puts higher ed on notice https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-18/trump-harvard-columbia-funding-higher-education If universities aren't living up to their purpose to improve society, they shouldn't benefit from government dollars and tax breaks. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 18:00:31 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-18/trump-harvard-columbia-funding-higher-education My L.A. neighborhood won't be the same when Say Cheese closes https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-18/los-angeles-silver-lake-gentrification-say-cheese-glenn-harrell A 10-year-old cheese lover laments that rising rents will close a shop that helps make Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood unique. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:30:58 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-18/los-angeles-silver-lake-gentrification-say-cheese-glenn-harrell Small nuclear reactors are no fix for California's energy needs https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-18/small-modular-reactors-cost-california The state is considering allowing mass-produced reactors, defying economics and logic. The hype is built on magical thinking. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 10:03:41 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-18/small-modular-reactors-cost-california Americans are sick of federal waste. Republicans should take the hint https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-17/trump-budget-republican-deficit-debt The GOP's vision for cutting taxes without real spending reform isn’t supply-side economics. It’s magical thinking. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:41:15 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-17/trump-budget-republican-deficit-debt The constitutional crisis is real https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-17/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-donald-trump It is not hyperbole to say that the future of our constitutional democracy may turn on the case of the alleged Venezuelan gangsters sent to El Salvador and the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the lawful U.S. resident swept up in that action. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:28:14 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-17/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-donald-trump Being a parent can be dizzying. To reorient, I look to the stars https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-17/parenting-constellations-night-sky Dragging the trash barrel to the curb, I look up at the night sky, and my current self is instantly tethered to all my past selves and all their potentials. I want my son to build those cosmic ties too. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:00:58 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-17/parenting-constellations-night-sky Tax dollars for religious schools? Conservative justices could be the roadblock https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-17/religious-charter-school-funding-supreme-court The current court has deemed history and tradition to be central to the interpretation of our constitutional rights. Two centuries of history on this topic is clear. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:00:39 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-17/religious-charter-school-funding-supreme-court The case that proves the U.S., under Trump, no longer stands for rule of law https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-donald-trump-el-salvador-nayib-bukele The Trump administration's refusal to 'facilitate' the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an attack on our most basic expectations of American justice. Wed, 16 Apr 2025 21:30:22 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-donald-trump-el-salvador-nayib-bukele To understand homelessness, listen to homeless people. Here's what I learned https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-30/los-angeles-homelessness-listening-to-the-unhoused Don't we all want better for all people who are this impoverished? Los Angeles cannot thrive if there is one community of people safely in homes and another forced onto the sidewalks. Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:00:40 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-30/los-angeles-homelessness-listening-to-the-unhoused Stop finding ways to kill the Venice Dell homeless housing project and get it built instead https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-23/los-angeles-opposition-venice-dell-homeless-housing-project It's outrageous that the city is still looking for ways to stop the project, years after it was approved. Sun, 23 Mar 2025 12:00:39 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-23/los-angeles-opposition-venice-dell-homeless-housing-project For California towns with a bear problem, using dogs to hunt is no solution https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-09/california-bear-hunting-dogs Hounding bears won't prevent dangerous encounters with humans. But bear-proofing your property will help. Sun, 09 Mar 2025 12:00:28 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-09/california-bear-hunting-dogs Keeping at-risk residents from losing their housing will be a key to solving homelessness https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-02/los-angeles-homelessness-prevention It is easier and less costly to keep someone from becoming homeless than it is to help them out of the trauma of homelessness and find them permanent housing. Sun, 02 Mar 2025 13:00:24 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-02/los-angeles-homelessness-prevention Don’t mourn the Rim fire — learn from it https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2025-04-18/dont-mourn-the-rim-fire-learn-from-it One L.A. Times reader argues that the 2013 Rim fire 'didn’t ruin Yosemite. It offered it a lesson.’ Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:00:55 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2025-04-18/dont-mourn-the-rim-fire-learn-from-it Former San Francisco resident sees reasons for hope in city’s future https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2025-04-18/former-san-francisco-resident-sees-reasons-for-hope-in-citys-future ‘I was relieved to see that San Francisco seems to now be on the right track in presenting itself in a better light,’ a Times reader writes about a recent visit to the city. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:00:08 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2025-04-18/former-san-francisco-resident-sees-reasons-for-hope-in-citys-future Detection of rare brain disease is a reminder of the importance of research funding https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2025-04-18/detection-of-rare-brain-disease-is-a-crucial-reminder-of-the-importance-of-neurodegenerative-research ‘It is critical that government funding of research into lethal diseases involving prion-like entities continue to be monitored and not fall prey to the current administration's fund cutting,’ writes an L.A. Times reader. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:00:44 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2025-04-18/detection-of-rare-brain-disease-is-a-crucial-reminder-of-the-importance-of-neurodegenerative-research