They are firefighters and aid workers, chefs and booksellers—and they’re all on a mission to show up for their Los Angeles community.

For years, Barfield had been resisting what he describes as mission drift: a retreat by the nation’s premier free-speech organization from the viewpoint-neutral defense of civil liberties, which had ...

During the first week of the fires, I would go up to my building’s roof once a day. I’d look at the Los Angeles skyline at whatever shade of yellow-orange-brown muck the fires had delivered that day ...

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