Melissa Batchelor Warnke’s work is focused on gender, power and pop culture. She has been a contributing opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times since 2016.
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Black Lives Matter has long modeled what it would look like for Angelenos to live the values we purport to hold. It’s time for L.A. to finally step up.
June 18, 2020
You’re not bad if you woke up this morning and blacked out your social media in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. But there are better ways to help.
June 2, 2020
Against all internal resistance, I will vote for creepy Joe Biden, a man who both should be and does not deserve to be president.
April 13, 2020
Hillary Clinton is still reading aloud from her burn book. We’re tired. We’ve read it already.
Jan. 21, 2020
Young people want someone like Bernie Sanders who will fight for them. They deserve that.
Nov. 21, 2019
Three short takeaways from a very long evening at the CNN climate town hall.
Sept. 5, 2019
On Monday, two Californians’ ships passed each other in the 2020 presidential campaign, as Bay Area Rep.
July 9, 2019
Was it a fever dream, or did we just spend nonrefundable hours of our brief lives watching 20 people fight for airtime to proclaim how cool they were?
June 28, 2019
Generation Z is finally — and, it seems, suddenly — becoming a topic of popular conversation.
June 25, 2019
“You should write about what’s going down in Alabama,” my mom said Tuesday afternoon over the phone.
May 15, 2019