The charges against the former IMF chief provoke a cautionary tale of two systems.
Editorial: President Obama's speech on the Middle East, though stirring, failed to address the complicated nuances of foreign policy.
The International Criminal Court could give Libyans something new: real justice.
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Meghan Daum: Breaking comedy's raunch barrier - May 19, 2011
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The solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is really not so far out of reach. The outlines of a reasonable two-state compromise have...
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The Senate is expected to vote Thursday on whether to debate the judicial appointment of UC Berkeley professor Goodwin Liu. His...
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Soon after I became a school librarian, a teacher came to me about Mario, an eighth-grader who had never read an entire book. Mario...
These days, the battle for economic justice is fought daily in a thousand obscure skirmishes in boardrooms and executive suites across the...
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Consider the following case: In January, a local police agency arrested a man for driving with a suspended license. A subsequent fingerprint...
First came the street celebrations; then the changing accounts of what happened; then the second-guessing — domestic and foreign.
Imagine if today's Los Angeles were governed by a white mayor and an all-white City Council. And then imagine if that anomaly was...