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Kathleen Sharp

Kathleen Sharp reports on business and entertainment from Southern California.

David Koch, Mitch McConnell, Karl Rove (AP/Evan Agostini/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Patrick Semansky/Photo collage by Salon)

America’s dark money disaster: Why we need donor ID laws now

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Rager at the end of the world: How Halloween looks in the shadow of tragedy

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Rotten to the Core: How an Apple mega-deal cost Los Angeles classrooms $1 billion

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Amazon’s loathsome tax scheme: How behemoths defeat Main Street — and how we can stop them

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Rochelle and Donald Sterling (AP/Mark J. Terrill)

How the Sterlings can actually make it right

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Charles Keating, Jr. (AP/Susan Sterner)

Behind the scenes of Charles Keating’s sexist financial empire

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A firefighter watches for spot fires during a burnout operation while battling the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif., Aug. 25, 2013. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

This is the way the world ends: Once-in-a-millennium drought a wakeup call for America

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Injustice at the Oscars: The controversies that Hollywood doesn’t want you to hear about

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Andrew Garfield and Jesse Eisenberg in "The Social Network"

Millennials’ bold new business plan: Corporations with a conscience

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Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook (Reuters/Gus Ruelas/Robert Galbraith/Salon)

Amazon’s bogus anti-Apple crusade

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This shopping mall’s amazing story is the perfect argument for immigration reform

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Hollywood’s battle of the sexes over Arnold

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Death of the last tycoon

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Storming Hollywood

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“Erin Brockovich”: The real story

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