
Opinion
Sep 19, 2026
Contributor: The administration's growing arrogance is not patriotism
The pursuit of power, untethered from our values, distorts the country's pride and fuels an un-American nationalism.
Source: latimesPublished: Sep 19, 2026

The pursuit of power, untethered from our values, distorts the country's pride and fuels an un-American nationalism.

If the administration wants to help families, it should remove the barriers that make raising children so expensive.

All of us are pressured, constantly, into revealing who we are. It's different in sports, though. There are spectators.

'As secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, he has stood firm against the Trump administration's efforts to reshape American history to fit its political agenda,' writes an L.A. Times reader.