The new film is set in a now-bulldozed Black neighborhood, so why is it all about whites and Puerto Ricans? Because it really takes place—bear with me—in Los Angeles.

Tens of thousands of unhoused people in Los Angeles County suffered through a massive downpour this week. Now comes the bitter cold.

Navigating U.S. cities with small humans in tow can be a nightmare. The Build Back Better and infrastructure bills offer some funding to change that.

Los Angeles wants the unhoused out of its combustible canyons. But no one ever suggests banning the rich from those same hills.

Affluent Southern Californians are funding a massive effort to criminalize the unhoused and defeat their few remaining political allies.

The chaos unfolding outside of a Los Angeles spa is a case study in how the right’s media and political ecosystems feed each other, often resulting in very real violence.

These public-private partnerships skate by on their complexity and branding, but they undermine a future where housing is a right.

“Defund the police” is not an austerity measure. It’s a demand that we put police department budgets to better use.

To build community support, organizers in L.A. flipped the message—and tactic—from taking money away from cops to locking in funds for everything else. Will it work?

The corrupt and abusive Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is just one of many in America that have evaded oversight.

Out of work and with little savings, millions of tenants are already part of a movement. They just don’t know it yet.

A new history of the classic noir movie dissects L.A.’s creation myths.

How a starchitect’s dramatic design for LACMA was hacked to bits

"Gig" workers, who often earn less than minimum wage, are outraged by an IPO that could net shareholders billions.

A new biography evokes the enchanted sprawl and smog of Los Angeles in the 1970s.

There's only one in America—in North Dakota. But a growing movement is pushing for them across America, from L.A. to D.C.

Why Democrats should take mayors seriously as presidential candidates

How America became over-policed

Opposition to the president in Orange County has boosted hopes of a wave election this fall. But Democrats need more than anti-Trump anger to win.

The novels "Sex and Rage" and "Weetzie Bat" shine a light on the City of Angels.