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Just a couple of months ago, it seemed as if Quentin Tarantino's Hollywood future could be in question. But at a major movie industry event here Monday night, the head of Sony Pictures feted the director as Hollywood royalty, declaring the filmmaker’s new screenplay the best thing he’d read in... […]

Starbucks is synonymous with the urban good life, an oasis where anyone with a few dollars can get a caramel macchiato and sit for hours writing, reading, talking or contemplating life. It’s cookie-cutter, but that’s the point — its thousands of stores powerfully symbolize the luxury of leisure... […]

Before launching his campaign for governor last year, Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) was a fairly ordinary legislator. Republican, but not in a rabble-rousing kind of way, and seemingly willing to work across the aisle to get things done. His first attention-getting legislation was... […]

Proposition 72 is one of the easier questions on the June 5 ballot. Homeowners should be rewarded, not penalized, for collecting the rainwater that falls on their roofs and for using it on their landscaping to save precious tap water. This measure would ensure that adding an expensive rainwater... […]

If a person is intoxicated or suffering from a mental health crisis, a crowded hospital emergency room may not be the right place to get treatment. Yet homeless people are often taken there when they may just need a place to sober up or be seen by a mental health professional. That’s because paramedics... […]

A brief conversation with "communicator" Larry King, 84 and Emmy nominated once again. […]

It is easy to despair of politics — witness the actions of President Trump and the gallery of narrow-minded populists taking power across the globe. In particular, political rhetoric, in these leaders’ hands, is in the dock, accused of fakery, falsity and spin. But political speech can sing, and... […]

To the editor: I’m thrilled that the North Koreans and the South Koreans are engaging in serious peace talks, and I am amazed that President Trump and CIA Director Mike Pompeo are also willing to support this effort. (“North Korea says it will suspend nuclear and missile testing,” April 20) As... […]

To the editor: Thank you for shining a light on the effort of Bryan Stevenson and his Equal Justice Initiative to memorialize the more than 4,000 victims of lynching in this country. (“New lynching memorial in Alabama offers chance to remember and heal,” April 21) In talks across the country, Stevenson... […]

To the editor: The Wells Fargo & Co. saga continues, with the bank most recently being penalized a whopping $1 billion. President Trump’s appointee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mick Mulvaney, boasted to his critics that this huge fine shows that he is indeed intent on enforcing... […]

To the editor: As a medical geneticist who has spent more than 40 years in practice at Kaiser Permanente and UCLA, I can appreciate people’s desire to learn as much as possible about their genetic endowment. (“Decoding your baby’s DNA: It can be done. But should it be?” April 22) Direct-to-consumer... […]

To the editor: It’s nice to be reassured by the politically conservative farmers in the parts of California that voted for President Trump that they no longer require immigrant workers in their fields, thus they will continue to swear fealty to the man in the White House. (“Raids and tariffs? We'll... […]

Sometimes forgotten in the spiraling U.S. crisis of opiate abuse is a clinical fact about narcotic pain medications: addiction is basically an unwanted side effect of drugs that are highly effective at blunting pain. Addiction, of course, is a particularly dangerous and disruptive side effect,... […]

Responding to reports that North Korea said it “no longer needs” nuclear tests, Jim Hanson, president of the generally pro-Trump Security Studies Group, credited President Trump. “No one was expecting anything to come of Trump’s fiery rhetoric, except people who understand that diplomacy works... […]

Wells Fargo & Co.’s top brass will gather in Iowa Tuesday for the bank’s annual shareholder meeting — and they’ll be getting an earful from critics and advocacy groups over issues such as continued revelations of consumer abuses and the bank’s dealings with gun makers. It’s the second shareholder... […]

Thirty-two years after moving into her cozy one-bedroom apartment near Berlin’s city center, Brigitte Lustig is about to be evicted — a fate the 61-year-old never imagined in a city renowned for its cheap rents and bohemian spirit. “I was born just up the street and lived here my whole life,” she... […]

The culture of disruption is getting out of hand. Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Bitcoin evangelist Tim Draper has revived his proposal to carve our fabulous state into smaller parts. His current proposal, Cal 3, is a minor improvement over his 2014 scheme, which was to break the state into... […]

China unveiled its plan to dominate the world’s most crucial technologies with little international fanfare, another vague, guiding principle in the labyrinth of Communist Party bureaucracy. Three years later, it’s at the core of a trade dispute with Washington that threatens to upend the global... […]

A quarter into Beyoncé’s triumphant, charged showing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival came a particularly poignant moment. With the pop star floating high above the crowd via a hydraulic crane, Nina Simone’s mournful version of “Lilac Wine” poured from speakers as two muscular dancers... […]

Senate Republicans have voted to allow car dealers to discriminate against black and Latino customers. Maybe I could have phrased that more delicately so as not to bruise sensitive conservative feelings. But why bother? In voting last week to repeal an Obama-era guideline from the Consumer Financial... […]