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Here is what you need to know before the Lakers return home to face the New Orleans Pelicans. 1) Both teams are hoping for reinforcements The Lakers’ rotation has taken several hits over the past couple weeks, and they’re hoping to get back to full strength (or close to it) against New Orleans. They have […]

They’re already piling up at the ports. That’s the thought behind a local developer’s plan to use old shipping containers as housing to help LA’s homeless crisis and streets of shame. Flyaway Homes announced in March 2017 that they’d purchased a duplex in South LA, got the plot rezoned by the city, and would be […]

For starters, it’s hard to see what problem the administration is trying to solve, either here or in the similar attacks it’s made on Medicaid and other safety net programs. As of the end of September, 38.6 million Americans were receiving food stamps, costing taxpayers $5.8 billion. That’s significantly fewer than the 43.7 million people […]

In addition to questioning the counterterrorism value of the administration’s decision, interventionists such as Sens. Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio have portrayed the administration’s decision as a gift to Iran, Russia, and Hezbollah, the Shiite organization based in Lebanon, because they fear that those actors will fill the strategic vacuum we leave. But an American […]

In 2012, five justices signed on to opinions stating that Congress could not force private parties to buy insurance, because in so doing the federal government was creating commerce. The Constitution, they said, didn’t grant Congress the power to create commerce, only to regulate it. One of those five, John G. Roberts Jr., ruled that […]

On a rainy day in a Senate chamber, they swore their oaths and did battle: she of the blue-suit and measured voice; he of the tears, rage and denial. It was epic and sad. It seemed a fiction, but it gleamed in real time, a grand, messy entertainment, like a spectacle in the Colosseum of […]