I Hope the Kochs Buy the Times

L.A. Is Terrified Its Main Paper Will Be Owned By Rightwing Zealots. I’m Not Bothered—and Here’s Why.

As you read this, I am surely reading e-mails from my former Los Angeles Times colleagues angry about the following sentence:

I’m rooting for the Koch brothers to buy the L.A. Times.

For the record, I am no fan of Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers who own various polluting companies and have spent shockingly large amounts of money in very secretive ways on behalf of libertarian and conservative causes. And I love the Times, which is not only my hometown paper but also a member of my family. My mother …

by Joe Mathews | May 9, 2013

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Careful, Mr. President, My Camera Is On

by Fuzz Hogan | April 30, 2013

Arun Chaudhary is already a few sips into his Rams Head IPA when I arrive at the Pug on H Street in Washington, D.C. H Street is what passes for …

Do We Need 150 More Years of Getting California Wrong?

If We Could Start Seeing This State as a Reality, Not Just a Symbol, We'd Solve a Lot More Problems

by Joe Mathews | April 4, 2013

California is a famously volatile place—lurching from boom to bust and from sunshine to natural disaster—but it’s nowhere near as volatile as the perceptions of California.

Only last year, the state …

So Can Our Officials Finally Get Back To Embezzling?

A Discussion Of Where Vigilance Will Come From In a Post-Newspaper Age

October 2, 2012

Thomas Jefferson famously said that the price of freedom was vigilance; he was also quoted as saying he’d rather have newspapers without government than government without newspapers. (Once in office …

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I Hope the Kochs Buy the Times

L.A. Is Terrified Its Main Paper Will Be Owned By Rightwing Zealots. I’m Not Bothered—and Here’s Why.

Arun Chaudhary

Careful, Mr. President, My Camera Is On

Do We Need 150 More Years of Getting California Wrong?

If We Could Start Seeing This State as a Reality, Not Just a Symbol, We'd Solve a Lot More Problems

So Can Our Officials Finally Get Back To Embezzling?

A Discussion Of Where Vigilance Will Come From In a Post-Newspaper Age

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The Thin Remains of the Once Mighty Los Angeles Times

The Paper Once Reflected the Tastes, Hopes, and Dreams of a Booming Region

Why Two California Billionaires Should Buy Newspapers

Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk Could Launder Their Reputations—And Maybe Serve the Public

Austin Beutner’s L.A. Times Was a Blast from the Past

The Recently Ousted Publisher Sought to Turn the Paper Into a Political Institution, Which Has Long Been an American Tradition

Is L.A. News Black and White and Dead All Over?

The Path to Reinventing News in Southern California Is Littered with the Bodies of Good Ideas

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