Los Angeles Times
Uncomfortable truths
Jennette McCurdy made a splash with a memoir about her mom. In debut novel about a wild affair, she plumbs the depths of power dynamics.
6 min |
January 20, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Cue the Bard's villains
Patrick Page's revealing 'All the Devils Are Here' taps into the evil within.
4 min |
January 20, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Ayton can’t miss as he joins exclusive company
The Lakers can exhale. Briefly.
4 min |
January 20, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Hayes to see which prospects get a leg up
U.S. women’s national team coach will use training camp to evaluate talent pool.
3 min |
January 20, 2026
Los Angeles Times
U.S. futures sink after latest tariff threat
European stocks also tumble after Trump’s warning to opponents of Greenland gambit.
3 min |
January 20, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Doncic voted All-Star starter
Lakers guard earns his fifth starting nod, while James could be named a reserve.
2 min |
January 20, 2026
Los Angeles Times
State's Delta waters are in poor health, scientists warn in report
California’s biggest rivers converge in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the waterways and wetlands forming an ecosystem where fresh water meets salt water from San Francisco Bay, and where native fish historically flourished.
2 min |
January 20, 2026
Los Angeles Times
U.S. sues state over buffer zones for oil wells
Trump administration challenges a minimum distance from homes, schools and hospitals.
3 min |
January 20, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Musk keeps feeding white-grievance machine
Billionaire pushes victim narratives and boosts neo-Nazi hate. What’s driving the fear?
4 min |
January 20, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Soprano's new project far from the norm
Julia Bullock's riveting song recital, 'From Ordinary Things,' is filled with surprises.
4 min |
January 20, 2026
Los Angeles Times
After record rains, more rocky roads
Thousands of new potholes in L.A. could be costly hazards for drivers and the city.
4 min |
January 20, 2026
Los Angeles Times
A doctor dives headfirst into 'Pitt'
Sepideh Moafi says chaos has shaped her character, scrubbing in for HBO's hit series.
6 min |
January 20, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Lakewood man kills wife and daughter, then himself at home
More details have emerged in a shooting that left three people dead inside a Lakewood home last week, with authorities saying a man killed his wife and 17-year-old daughter before turning the gun on himself.
1 min |
January 20, 2026
Los Angeles Times
The first step in redesigning L.A.'s transit future
Metro's solution for the Sepulveda Pass is estimated to cut travel times through the corridor by more than half
3 min |
January 20, 2026
Los Angeles Times
At least 40 killed in Spain high-speed rail crash
Death toll could rise as efforts to recover bodies from wrecked train cars continues.
4 min |
January 20, 2026
Los Angeles Times
U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of 2025
U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that had been worsening for decades.
3 min |
January 20, 2026
The New Yorker
WAR CLOUDS
Before and after the ouster of a dictator.
10+ min |
January 26, 2026
The New Yorker
HEARTH DEPT. A REAL GAS
The Famous Stove Lady is sometimes disappointed in her customers. “I have two with this flame-failure system,” she said one morning at her workshop, in the New York suburb of Mount Vernon.
3 min |
January 26, 2026
The New Yorker
THE BOARDS BODY POLITIC
Assuming you paid attention in English class or have a glancing familiarity with Freud, you probably know how “Oedipus Rex” ends.
3 min |
January 26, 2026
The New Yorker
LIGHT SECRETS
My friend P.and I agree to have lunch at a restaurant equidistant from our respective homes. A nasty rumor about P. has reached my ears. I’m not going to mention it to P., of course.
10+ min |
January 26, 2026
The New Yorker
SCHOOL OF FISH
On the water with a Southern California seafood savant.
7 min |
January 26, 2026
The New Yorker
WON'T BACK DOWN
The stubborn songs of Zach Bryan.
6 min |
January 26, 2026
The New Yorker
COLD COMFORT
The wintry triumphs of Helene Schjerfbeck.
6 min |
January 26, 2026
The New Yorker
THE ICE CURTAIN
Nome, Alaska, seems farther from Russia than ever.
10+ min |
January 26, 2026
The New Yorker
THE VERMONTER
What happened when Bernie Sanders left Brooklyn for Burlington.
10+ min |
January 26, 2026
The New Yorker
Vinson Cunningham on Barry Blitt's "The Politics of Fear"
I was in a yellow cab in high summer when I saw it. Twenty-three at the time, I sometimes skimmed articles about politics on my clunky BlackBerry while cruising through Central Park to my first real job, fundraising for Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign. Usually, the ride was placid.
2 min |
January 26, 2026
The New Yorker
SHOW OF FORCE
After a chaotic visit to an ICE jail, a congresswoman faces felony charges in Trump's war against his critics.
10+ min |
January 26, 2026
The New Yorker
POWER AND PROTEST
On January 8th, the twelfth day of mass protests in Iran, which began when shopkeepers, responding to runaway inflation, closed Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, the Iranian government shut down public access to the internet, further shrouding an already largely closed society. Nevertheless, isolated images and details have been smuggled out, giving a hint of how brutal and monumental these events are.
4 min |
January 26, 2026
The New Yorker
ASK XANDER & MARILUISA
Still more advice from the internet
4 min |
January 26, 2026
The New Yorker
L.A. POSTCARD FIREBRAND
In the past few weeks, among the yard signs for contractors, remediators, and litigators that fell like a plague on Pacific Palisades after some seven thousand structures were destroyed in last year’s fire, a new sign has popped up, with a pointed accusation: \"They Let Us Burn.\"
3 min |