I'm a subscriber. I think the Times is going through a very slow, probably very painful (for them), transition to a offering a little more balance on the editorial and news side. Some sections, like the Book Review and Calendar, are still filled with left wing bias.
I expect they have to do it slowly, or they would risk losing all their liberal subscribers, too. That's one reason they got into this fix--following the liberal trend right out to the end of the limb they were sitting on.
30 (or so) years ago the LA Times was conservative.