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Trump’s lightning-fast decline is confirmed by this ironic betrayal
It happens every four to eight years at a minimum; we see presidents gradually lose power as they sense a political world moving on, either looking toward the “next president” with candidates in either party, or just the calendar flipping away as it always does, sapping a president’s power as surely as it saps all…
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Dodger Stadium gondola plan about to hit heavy turbulence as state park defenders play hardball
As we head into August and look to the fall, two burning questions are front and center when it comes to the Dodgers. Will they win a third straight World Series championship? And will the $500-million proposal to ferry fans by gondola from Union Station to Dodger Stadium remain aloft or crash and burn? I…
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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
When the United States ratified the 13th amendment in 1865, federal lawmakers very nearly outlawed slavery for good — but not entirely. Tucked within arguably the most important corner of the US constitution is a massive caveat: “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly…
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Riverside County failed to act on reported abuse before baby Emmanuel’s death, suit alleges
The abuse and death of seven-month-old Emmanuel Haro at the hands of his parents transfixed and horrified the nation. Now, a lawsuit filed in Riverside County Superior Court alleges that if county social workers had done their jobs properly, he would still be alive. The suit, filed Monday on behalf of Emmanuel’s 3-year-old sister, claims…
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Shocking twist as homicide investigation launched into 3-year-old girl’s drowning at popular Central California reservoir
A three-year-old Modesto girl’s drowning at a popular reservoir in Central California is now being investigated as a homicide as authorities search for answers as to what happened to her. Lailah Rosillo died at Don Pedro Reservoir — also known as Lake Don Pedro — in Tuolumne County more than a week ago. Lailah Rosillo’s…
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A Street Musician at Heart
In one of my favorite videos of the singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, who died this week at the age of 56, he is standing in a small backyard in Cologne. It’s 2015, and he’s playing “Say It to Me Now,” which he performs in the opening scene of the breakout 2007 indie film Once; it’s a…
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Savannah Guthrie makes heartbreaking plea to mom Nancy’s kidnappers 6 months after disappearance
Savannah Guthrie isn’t giving up hope. The “Today” co-anchor made an emotional public plea Saturday as her family, including her siblings, Camron and Annie, marked six months since their mom, Nancy Guthrie, vanished from her Tucson, Arizona, home in what authorities believe was a kidnapping. “Today marks six months since our beautiful mom was taken…
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Nature’s Most Extraordinary Stories
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. We often associate wonder with the faraway and the exceptional. But some of the planet’s most extraordinary spectacles…
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Highway bandits, Charles Lindbergh and the 700 curves; The story of the Ridge Route over Tejon Pass
What comes before 5? Trick question. It’s not a number. The 5 I mean is Interstate 5, the massive road that muscles up and over the 4,160-foot Tejon Pass, connecting two parts of California so distinct from each other — Southern and Central California — that to this day there’s a lot of yakking about…
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The Two Great Threats to Truth
Truth is under threat today from two opposing impulses. The first is subjectivism, or relativism: the denial of the existence of objective truth or the possibility of ever attaining it. This proposition may seem abstract, but it has direct consequences for our civic life. Contrary to what one hears at cocktail parties or in freshman…