Union Tribune Editorial Board

For more than 180 years after the nation’s founding in 1776, America’s attitudes toward sexism and sexual discrimination, harassment and violence were deeply troubling. But by the mid-20th century, there...

The never-ending stories coming out of City Hall that make San Diegans incredulous, angry or both continued this week when details of a 50-page report by City Auditor Andy Hanau...

The announcement last week that a sprawling multiagency effort targeting human trafficking during Comic-Con had led to 14 arrests and to 10 potential victims receiving help from authorities was both...

Last week, San Diego hosted one of its biggest tourist events of the year, Comic-Con International 2024. It brought in an estimated $160 million to our local economy, according to the San...

California is full of problems that its leaders are unable to fix, starting with the very related high cost of housing and high levels of homelessness. But what should drive...

Joe Biden’s announcement Sunday that he was dropping out of the presidential race was the right one for the nation. The president’s cognitive decline became impossible to deny after a...

The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday in Butler, Pa., was a sickening manifestation of the ugly division that suffuses American politics. While virtually every prominent leader...

In any fair discussion of whether President Joe Biden should remain a candidate for re-election, one point must be made immediately: Yes, of course, Donald Trump is even more manifestly...

In November 2019 — less than two months after a lengthy investigation by The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Watchdog team showed county jails run by the Sheriff’s Department had done an...

On a key question involving criminal justice, states across the nation have made a basic mistake: They reject 100-plus years of evidence from developed nations across the world that crime...

The debate over how to respond to the crumbling coastal bluffs in Del Mar that imperil a 1.7-mile section of the only rail track linking San Diego County to the...

President Joe Biden’s newly issued executive order allowing hundreds of thousands of spouses of U.S. citizens without legal immigration status to apply for permanent residency and eventually citizenship without having...

The people who represent the region in the state Legislature face a character test in coming days. Do Assembly Laurie Davies, Marie Waldron, Brian Maienschein, Tasha Boerner, Chris Ward,...

The evidence that smartphones and social media have had a painful to a catastrophic effect on millions of younger Americans — plunging many into depression, and spurring eating disorders, thoughts...