Advocates see these laws as a critical shield for immigrant communities, but Trump’s team is devising ways to bypass them.

Photojournalist Ted Soqui’s visual recap of the year in Los Angeles.

The U.S. prison population has grown more than 700 percent between 1970 and 2009. We’re locking people up left and right, including thousands of non-violent immigrants... Inequality. You’re probably ...

Peter Dreier is a professor of politics and founding chair of the Urban & Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. He is coauthor of The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City ...