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Back to SearchLet's get loud, Super Bowl halftime show
Even if you don’t like football, you probably have opinions about the Super Bowl halftime show. Today, we look at the history of this curious specta…
4 years ago
Why the NFL doesn't hire Black coaches
In a league where Black players make up 70% of active rosters, the NFL currently has only two Black head coaches. League officials and even fans have…
4 years ago
The triple terror of tsunamis
For the latest installment of our “Masters of Disasters” series, we talk tsunamis in the wake of a volcanic eruption near Tonga last month that cause…
4 years ago
We enter the metaverse — and return
Everybody is talking about the metaverse right now. But Times host Gustavo Arellano didn’t want to just talk about it; he wanted to experience it fir…
4 years ago
When cars on autopilot crash — and kill
A first-of-it’s kind case in Los Angeles County is going to play a big role in determining culpability whenever self-driving cars get into accidents.…
4 years, 1 month ago
No freedom gold medal for you, Olympics
There’s a growing realization that the brilliance of the world’s best athletes isn’t enough anymore to cover some glaring problems that come with put…
4 years, 1 month ago
Mexico's murdered journalists
Mexico trails just Syria and Iraq as the deadliest country in the world to be a journalist. That’s according to data collected from 2000 through 2022…
4 years, 1 month ago
Tet, today and yesterday
Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is a national holiday, not just in Vietnam but all over the world wherever Vietnamese may be. And in the United S…
4 years, 1 month ago
Home was where the freeway is
In Santa Monica during the 1950s and ‘60s, city leaders evicted hundreds of Black families to build what ended up being the 10 Freeway. But now, in a…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Blur guy insulted a pop star. The reaction? Swift
It was the Taylor Swift diss heard around the world. “She doesn’t write her own songs.” That’s what Damon Albarn, the lead singer for the British ban…
4 years, 1 month ago