Research
Special Report: Trump’s resort to force
Anatomy of the raids that rocked Los Angeles and beyond
Features
Table Talk
Council President Marqueece Harris Dawson: “A New Political Order”
The L.A. council president and Blueprint reflect on a decade of change — and what’s ahead
Profile
Dominique Carter: From Unhoused to Safe
Homelessness takes many forms. Recovery begins with a place to live.
Research
The “Lie Factory”
Generative artificial intelligence is changing — and improving — life for humans. Can humans control it?
Profile
Kevin Shird: The Long Recovery
Shird once ran a drug ring. Now he writes and speaks — and helps others to recover
Research
School Shootings: Can They Be Stopped?
From Sandy Hook to Uvalde, shootings bring anguish and a frustrating search for solutions
Table Talk
Karen Bass and Rick Caruso: A Blueprint Debate
Debate: Caruso and Bass debate homelessness, public safety and whether to charge Donald Trump
Table Talk
Gavin Newsom: California’s governor on the state of the state
Newsom defends California’s work on homelessness, immigration and guns — and his power to effect change
Research
Police Violence and the Call for Help
Confrontations with traumatized suspects too-often end in shootings. Is there another way?
Table Talk
Eric Garcetti: Reflections from L.A.’s mayor
Crime and COVID, rising homelessness and restive politics — Garcetti looks back on nine years as chief executive of Los Angeles.
Research
Prisons in a Pandemic
An ambitious data project reveals the extent of COVID’s spread inside American prisons
Research
Focus on Policing: To Abolish or To Reform?
Lorenzo Jones and the deep questions of American policing
Profile
Focus on Policing: Bernard Parks
The former LAPD chief and Los Angeles city councilmember considers American policing and its critics
Research
Working for Safety
Jorja Leap spearheads an effort to examine the LAPD’s work in Nickerson Gardens and beyond
Research
Closing Note: Hope in the Ruins
This year of crisis has upended politics, public health and policing, among many other walks of life. It now moves to an election.
Sketches
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Padilla on his encounter with Kristi Noem
Listen: Senator Alex Padilla and Blueprint editor Jim Newton continue in conversation, discussing the senator’s manhandling by Noem’s security forces this summer
Takeaway
Closing Note: How Best to Help Children
Whether improving foster care or recovering from fire, the region’s needs are great and urgent
Landscape
The Roadway of the American Future
Ann Carlson on transportation safety, climate change and dark politics
Landscape
The Long Road to Irrelevance
California’s GOP once contributed to the good of the state. Now, it’s mostly a foil.
Landscape
When Crime Rises and Falls
With violent crime falling but property crime rising, city leaders struggle for answers
Takeaway
Closing Note: A Time to Act
Artificial intelligence may do great things or great harm, depending on whether Congress gets it
Landscape
Whither the California Electorate?
As California prepares to re-elect Gavin Newsom, Angelenos face a choice for their future
First Person
Governing Los Angeles
Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez on governing through crises
First Person
The Struggles of Family
Zachary Slobig on the combined effects within his family of COVID-19 and national policing protests
Editor's Note
Editor’s Note
California is big, diverse and complicated. The challenge of governing this state is huge.
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Of “bad apples” and police culture
Some see policing problems as the work of a few bad officers. Others see cultures of racism and brutality. Here’s how to tell the difference.
