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 Founded in 1881, the Times has won 38 Pulitzer Prizes through 2007; this includes four in editorial cartooning, and one each in spot news reporting for the 1965 Watts Riots and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. In 2004, the paper won five prizes, which is the third-most by any paper in one yeaar.
The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States and the fourth-most widely distributed newspaper in the United States.
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As the GOP Stands Firm, California is Changing Direction
Wednesday, 04 March 2009 16:00
LA Times
Those of us who practice or analyze California politics share an enduring conviction about the state. There's coastal California, stretching from the Oregon border to the southern boundaries of Los Angeles, which is liberal and Democratic. And there's inland California -- the Central Valley, the Sierra, the exurbs of Los Angeles and the desert -- which (along with Orange and San Diego counties) remains a bastion of right-wing Republicanism.
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Labor's Real Fight
Saturday, 31 January 2009 16:00
LA Times
By one measure, last Wednesday was that rarity of rarities for American labor: a good day. The measure was that of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which announced that union membership actually increased by 428,000 in 2008. After decades of decline, the uptick in union membership signaled that some unions, at least, have figured out how to organize, despite relentless employer opposition and toothless worker-protection laws.
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Labor's Fresh Face
Thursday, 18 December 2008 16:00
LA Times
When Barack Obama set out to choose his secretary of Labor, his top priority was probably not recruiting an emblematic Angeleno. But in tapping Hilda L. Solis, a Democrat who represents a portion of the San Gabriel Valley in Congress, that's just what he's done.
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A Choice, for a Change
Saturday, 05 January 2008 16:00
LA Times
Like popes, Los Angeles County supervisors have to win an election to land the job, but once in, they're sitting pretty. The last time there was a contested supervisor election, George Bush was president -- the Bush who didn't send U.S. forces into Baghdad.
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In September, 2009 Atlantic Monthly named 
