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To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, ...

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Book and thousands of sexual abuse survivors and advocates walk a combined 1,500 miles from Key West to Tallahassee each April, which is both Child Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault Awareness ...

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A second Texas child has died of a measles outbreak, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — infamous spreader of vaccine misinformation — reportedly plans to attend ...

Book and thousands of sexual abuse survivors and advocates walk a combined 1,500 miles from Key West to Tallahassee each April, which is both Child Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault ...