In Los Angeles, Politics Are More Complex Than a Racist Recording Indicates Recently leaked audio of Latino leaders exposed their ambition to gain power. But loyalties don’t always follow racial ...

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The new book by the historians Mike Davis and Jon Wiener takes readers on a picaresque voyage around Los Angeles during the “long sixties” (1960-1973).

Los Angeles is a hard place to make friends, and we all have our theories as to why. About half of the city’s population is transplants, and people are always coming and going. About 10 million ...

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Even by the cash-flush standards of modern politics, Rick Caruso’s run for mayor of Los Angeles has been a shock-and-awe spending campaign. The billionaire Republican-turned-Democrat has already ...

Analysis: The U.S. has a big task and a big opportunity in front of it with rebuilding in Los Angeles. And the impulse to play politics with the relief effort must be put aside.

New polling suggests Los Angeles and California could skew even more liberal if Latino voters turned out in greater numbers, challenging the more consistent bloc of aging and homeowning voters.

Los Angeles City Hall’s dysfunctional relationship with real estate development has contributed to so many of the city's ills. Editorial: Los Angeles must take politics out of development ...

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss the politics of the L.A. fires. Erich Schwartzel, Katherine Sayre, and Peter Grant for The Wall Street Journal: Los ...

The American Political Science Association, or APSA, is holding its annual meeting in Los Angeles this weekend, despite calls from striking hotel workers for conferences to stay away from the city ...

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of Los Angeles city employees began striking early Tuesday, accusing their employer of subjecting them to exploitative working conditions and engaging in "bad faith ...