Letters to the Editor

Two U.S. astronauts have been stuck on the International Space Station for months. A reader wonders what purpose that orbiting station serves.

Green areas with trees are among any city’s greatest assets. Thank God Whittier is being sued to stop its removal of more than 100 ficus trees.

Jan. 6, 2025, went a lot differently than Jan. 6, 2021. Readers discuss what this means for a country that’s about to inaugurate Donald Trump as president.

It’s not enough to put a cancer warning label on alcohol products. We need to significantly cut back on advertising for booze, as we did with tobacco.

A reader says he has never filed a claim but his home insurance cost is skyrocketing. He wonders if he is subsidizing residents of high-risk areas.

The man who killed 14 people in New Orleans ‘was as American as you are,’ a reader says to President-elect Donald Trump.

The ‘deep state’ is just another name for the millions-strong federal workforce that is loyal only to the Constitution, not whichever party is in power.

Mary Shelley in “Frankenstein.” Stanley Kubrick in “2001.” We’ve long been warned about our inventions turning on us, and it may happen soon with AI.

It’s way too easy to become homeless in L.A. The city’s and county’s main homeless services agency can never fix that.

Requiring proof of citizenship to vote places the burden on states to provide documents that will allow their residents to exercise their constitutional right.

A reader asked the president for a birthday greeting for a friend. Surprisingly, she got a reply, a testament to Jimmy Carter’s decency.

Climate change could make air travel increasingly unreliable. We need to consider that when discussing California’s high-speed rail project.