Asma Sontani

Last year, California passed legislation that requires the Office of the State Attorney General to investigate all police shootings that result in the death of an unarmed civilian.

One year ago this week, George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis at the hands of former police officer Derek Chauvin. The killing set off the largest civil rights movement the U.S.

It’s been two weeks since a gunman in San Jose reported to work, opened fire, and killed nine people before killing himself.

Joe Mathews says that focusing on the state budget, when it appears in good shape, obscures California’s systemic failures.

Santa Monica has a reputation as a paradise for lefties. But the city isn’t exactly welcoming to Latinos.

With the state’s color-coded reopening tiers riding off into the sunset, there’s no more social distancing, and masks in almost every indoor situation are being retired.

For most of American history, abortion has been legal, outlawed only from 1867 to 1973. Now the U.S. Supreme Court might outlaw it again by overturning Roe v. Wade.

Political fallout is mounting as LA grapples with how to house its many residents living on the streets.

Sherry Buchanan, author of “On the Ho Chi Minh Trail,” discusses what she learned about the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese women who survived its frontlines.