Cornerback Marcus Peters #22 of the Los Angeles Rams urges on the crowd during the fourth quarter against the Philadelphia Eagles at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on December 16, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) Los Angeles Rams defensive back Marcus Peters was caught on camera confronting a fan during the […]
Blog: Ducks win in Pittsburgh behind Getzlaf, Henrique – Los Angeles Times
However, deficits do little to deter the Ducks. Each of Anaheim’s previous nine victories came in games they were either tied or trailing heading into the final period. Anaheim didn’t wait that long this time to get back in it. The Ducks 19 consecutive shots during one stretch. Henrique’s power-play goal 2:07 into the second […]
Blog: Did Jerry Brown do enough on climate change?
In recent years, the state has suffered an array of environmental woes, to varying degrees climate-related: the catastrophic fires, drought, heat waves, encroaching sea levels, dwindling fish stocks, toxic air quality, to name just a few. Brown’s climate efforts have been profoundly important; it’s a measure of the breadth of the environmental crisis that they […]
Blog: Pandering to his base is backing Trump into a corner
As always happens after one of these political reality show spectacles, the chattering classes set out to score the bout. According to conventional rules, Pelosi and Schumer came out the winners. They got Trump to admit that if there’s a government shutdown over border wall funding, it will be all his doing. (Just before the […]
Blog: The world needs great strides to fight global warming. Climate talks in Poland delivered only baby steps
Honestly, we’re not trying to disparage the scientists and diplomats who spend their lives trying to avert the looming catastrophe of climate change. But it is disheartening that the best the United Nations body — called COP24 — came up with was, in essence, a rulebook in which the participating nations will report, accurately and […]
Blog: Russian interference in the election was worse than we thought
The reports, based on data provided by Facebook, Twitter and other companies exploited by the IRA, contain several arresting details about the way the Russians leveraged popular internet services. It was already known that Russian disinformation flowed freely on Facebook, but the New Knowledge report notes that Instagram, a social media app where people share […]