Vicki Rupasinghe News Today

With this Supreme Court set to overturn longstanding precedent and laws on guns and abortion, we need to stop calling the far-right justices 'conservative.'

Letters to the Editor: Readers were starting to praise L.A.s vaccine rollout. That changed this week Paul Thornton © Provided by The LA Times Residents of Orange County wait for COVID-19 shots at the mass vaccination site near Disneyland on Jan. 13. (Los Angeles Times) Often when I am asked how reader opinions break down on a given issue — pro or con, left or right, angry or pleased — people are surprised when I say that they tend to trend in a certain direction over a pe...

Print Often when I am asked how reader opinions break down on a given issue — pro or con, left or right, angry or pleased — people are surprised when I say that they tend to trend in a certain direction over a period of time, and then swing another way. For example, on Jan. 30, two letters were published that called for schools in California to reopen because the preponderance of submissions at the time expressed that view; the following week, readers (many of them teachers) mostly expresse...

Print To the editor: As a preschool teacher for 40 years, I applaud developmental neuroscientists Emily Cohodes, Sahana Kribakaran and Dylan Gee for their op-ed article on the trauma inflicted on migrant children by the Trump administration, and the need for President-elect Joe Biden to grant them and their families asylum in the United States when he takes office. I have had to comfort many young children who were the last ones to be picked up from school at the end of the day when their paren...