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Category Archives: Los Angeles
One Coalition, Two Claimants: Bass, Raman, and Alliance Theory
The Los Angeles runoff set for November 3, 2026, looks like a fight between left and center. Alliance Theory reads it as something narrower and sharper: a fight inside one coalition over who leads it. David Pinsof, David O. Sears, … Continue reading
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Terry Tang and the Custody of the Los Angeles Times
Terry Tang (b. circa 1959) is an American journalist, editor, and former lawyer who has served as executive editor of the Los Angeles Times since April 2024. She is the first woman to lead the newspaper’s newsroom in its history, … Continue reading
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Hector Becerra
Hector Becerra (b. 1974) is an American journalist and the managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, the second-ranking post in the newsroom and the highest a Latino journalist has held in the paper’s history. He reached that office in … Continue reading
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The Heaven He Could Reach With His Hands
A boy of fourteen sits close to the first television the home has owned. The year is 1980. Light comes off the screen and lands on his face. By 1982 the light has a name, MTV, and the women on … Continue reading
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The Patron Saint of Lost Causes: Gustavo Arellano’s Hero System
In the last week of March 2026, the phones in Latino Los Angeles went quiet. Gustavo Arellano (b. 1979) noticed it first as a pattern of small refusals. Men he had known for years stopped returning his texts. Organizations canceled … Continue reading
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The Hero System of Los Angeles Times Columnist Steve Lopez
Steve Lopez (b. 1953) keeps a private appointment with the obituary page. He has described the moment a newspaperman dreads, when the names there stop belonging to strangers and start belonging to men he knew, men he stood beside at … Continue reading
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The Refusal of Erasure
She watches a slum come down in Delhi. The machines work through a morning. By afternoon more than a hundred thousand people have no home, and the next day the papers carry nothing. The thing she cannot get past is … Continue reading
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The Save You Cannot Photograph
The body comes in at two in the morning. A young man, gunshot, the gurney already wet. The trauma team at County-USC works the airway and the bleed, and Karen_Bass (b. 1953) as a physician assistant in the largest trauma … Continue reading
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LAT: Ford sues L.A. lemon law firm alleging ‘utter fabrications’ inflated fees by 7,000%
Rebecca Ellis writes for The Los Angeles Times: Ford Motor Co. is suing a prominent Los Angeles lemon law firm for allegedly inflating their fees by as much as 7,000%, the company’s latest attempt to crack down on California attorneys … Continue reading
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Catherine Seipp and the Network That Replaced the Newsroom
Catherine Seipp (1957-2007) watched American media change from inside a city the rest of the press treated as a backwater. She held no large platform. She edited no major paper, hosted no national broadcast, owned no media company. She worked … Continue reading
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