Have you heard of Cafeteria Catholicism? It’s what they call heresy these days, picking and choosing which religious laws one lives by as though picking tidbits you like at a salad bar. You’re not ...

Brown Leghorn and white Leghorn chickens in a cage-free aviary in Lakeview. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: As an animal welfare advocate, it is difficult for me to keep a level ...

More than 85 scientists have published a lengthy joint critique of a recent Energy Department report that downplayed the effects of climate change, calling it riddled with “pervasive problems.” “It’s ...