Lorraine Ali is news and culture critic of the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she was television critic for The Times covering media, breaking news and the onslaught of content across streaming, cable and network TV. Ali is an award-winning journalist and Los Angeles native who has written in publications ranging from the New York Times to Rolling Stone and GQ. She was formerly senior writer for The Times’ Calendar section where she covered entertainment, culture, and American Arab and Muslim issues. Ali started at The Times in 2011 as music editor after leaving her post as a senior writer and music critic at Newsweek Magazine.
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Columnist Lorraine Ali says perhaps the most heartbreaking development of the Biden-Trump debate was the acceptance of casual racism as part of our political discourse.
June 28, 2024
Where were President Biden’s debate-enhancing drugs Thursday night, and more importantly, can his supporters access them now to dull memories of his weak performance during the 90-minute live telecast?
June 28, 2024
Right-wing media never misses an opportunity to ‘report’ on the nation’s alarming rise in crime (though rates are in fact dropping), especially in blue states, and particularly on the left coast.
June 19, 2024
Actors Hannah Einbinder, Heidi Gardner, Daniel Ings, Josh Lucas, Sheryl Lee Ralph and J.B. Smoove share their stories of auditions, inspiration and sometimes desperation.
June 4, 2024
Columnist Lorraine Ali explains that with Trump’s guilty verdict, we now face a bigger stress test: Will folks believe in the legal system or the discreditation of it by the presumptive GOP presidential candidate and his acolytes?
May 31, 2024
Nida Manzoor, who created ‘We Are Lady Parts,’ talks about Season 2 of the Peacock comedy that centers on an all-female Muslim punk rock band and the power of positive villainy.
May 30, 2024
Netflix Is a Joke highlights included Ali Wong’s taping at the Wiltern, Kill Tony at the Kia Forum and countless club shows and late-night happenings.
May 13, 2024
The revelation that presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a parasite that ate parts of his brain is just the latest bizarre news this election cycle.
May 9, 2024
Tucking opposition to the protest movement in a flippant screed against Gen Z isn’t just obnoxious and cowardly, it’s dangerous, columnist Lorraine Ali says.
May 3, 2024
Student protests are big news. But they are blocking out the horrors of the Gaza war that inspired them.
April 29, 2024