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Chile's buried secrets

Chile's buried secrets

By Peter Kornbluh and Marc Cooper

By exhuming the body of Salvador Allende, an official inquiry aims to lay the past to rest.

 

The old taboos, back in the news

By Gregory Rodriguez

Sex, power, class and race. The scandals encircling French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Arnold Schwarzenegger conjure major taboos.

Orange County's Great Park, interrupted

By Jim Newton

Redevelopment of the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station has been plagued by delays. Now, Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to eliminate community redevelopment agencies could pose a devastating setback.

 
Report indicts '60s counterculture in Catholic abuse cases

Report indicts '60s counterculture in Catholic abuse cases
What makes politicians stray?

What makes politicians stray?
If the dog ate your homework, read this

If the dog ate your homework, read this

Letters to the Editor

President Obama's speech on the Middle East; a report on the sexual abuse scandal among Catholic priests; reactions to building mosques in the U.S.

L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca and the Secure Communities program; defending the legality of killing Osama bin Laden; tax breaks for oil companies

California's high-speed rail project; overpopulation and Earth; human behavior


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The Conversation

Obummer: What was missing from Obama's Middle East speech

Obummer: What was missing from Obama's Middle East speech

Dominique Strauss-Kahn: The American commentary on France's reaction to DSK's alleged sex scandal

Ron Paul: Who cares that he's seeking the Republican nomination?

Raj Rajaratnam: The feeble defense of an insecure billionaire

Returning to the torture debate

Editorials

To fix California's budget, we need taxes too

To fix California's budget, we need taxes too

Lawmakers in Sacramento traditionally put off the toughest budget decisions until the governor's office updates its spending plan in mid-May...

Cellphones: Quieting the public nuisances

Cellphones: Quieting the public nuisances

Anyone who has been forced to endure a stranger's loud and public cellphone conversation in a supermarket line or a restaurant will...

In L.A., no more 'Gold Cards'

In L.A., no more 'Gold Cards'

City Controller Wendy Greuel released an...

Report indicts '60s counterculture in Catholic abuse cases

Report indicts '60s counterculture in Catholic abuse cases

Blame the flower children. That seems to be the chief conclusion of a new report about the Roman Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal. The...

British-Irish relations: A royal stamp of approval

British-Irish relations: A royal stamp of approval

The visit by Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland this week — the first by a British monarch in a century — was rich in symbolism, as...

Helping Haitians in the U.S.

Helping Haitians in the U.S.

The Obama administration this week extended what's known as "temporary protected status" for Haitians living in the United States. The...

In the 2012 campaign, environmentalists don't matter

In the 2012 campaign, environmentalists don't matter

Shortly after his party's "shellacking" in the midterm election, President Obama ordered government agencies to ensure that new...

Obama's Middle East speech: Nurturing the Arab Spring

Obama's Middle East speech: Nurturing the Arab Spring

President Obama sought on Thursday to recalibrate the United States' response to the Arab Spring, giving new weight to issues of democracy,...

City Council wisely stops digging a hole with Los Angeles budget

City Council wisely stops digging a hole with Los Angeles budget

Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey once laid out what he called the First Law of Holes: "If you are in one, stop...

The Middle East mess

The Middle East mess

The solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is really not so far out of reach. The outlines of a reasonable two-state compromise have...

DSK and France's code of silence

DSK and France's code of silence

France is reeling over the shocking arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the International Monetary Fund chief who had been considered a front-...

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Op-Ed

America the stony-hearted

America the stony-hearted

By Neal Gabler

When the political history of the last 30 years is written, scholars will no doubt describe a rightward revolution that jolted this...

Doyle McManus: Middle East hopes and fears

Doyle McManus: Middle East hopes and fears

By Doyle McManus

We may be the world's only remaining superpower, but we've been a secondary factor in the wave of change sweeping the Arab world.

What makes politicians stray?

What makes politicians stray?

By Frank Farley

Last week, Arnold Schwarzenegger joined the club of leading male political figures who are known to have cheated on their spouses. Other...

Foshay Learning Center: A model for success

Foshay Learning Center: A model for success

By Jervey Tervalon

It's not pleasant to return to a place where, as a child, you were almost always afraid. So, a few years ago, when I stepped onto the campus...

If the dog ate your homework, read this

If the dog ate your homework, read this

By Jaime O'Neill

Dear Students,

Tim Rutten: S.F. circumcision proposition doesn't belong on the ballot

Tim Rutten: S.F. circumcision proposition doesn't belong on the ballot

By Tim Rutten

In November, the residents of San Francisco will not only cast their ballots on pressing state and local issues, they also will decide...

Calling Kadafi to account

Calling Kadafi to account

By Hisham Matar

For a long time, Libyans have fantasized about what they would do if they could get their hands on Col. Moammar Kadafi. The idea I heard...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the sins of our systems

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the sins of our systems

Christopher Kutz

Reactions to the Dominique Strauss-Kahn spectacle have been starkly different on the two sides of the Atlantic, and self-congratulations...

'Job killers' that aren't

'Job killers' that aren't

By Donald Cohen

Since 2003, the California Chamber of Commerce has published an annual hit list of bills it labels job killers. The list has included...

Fighting mosques in the name of freedom

Fighting mosques in the name of freedom

By Doyle McManus

Last year, a Muslim congregation in Murfreesboro, Tenn., a pleasant college town of about 110,000 people southeast of Nashville, decided...

Meghan Daum: Breaking comedy's raunch barrier

Meghan Daum: Breaking comedy's raunch barrier

By Meghan Daum

The results are in: "Bridesmaids," the much-hyped girl-raunch comedy touted as the long-awaited antidote to Judd Apatow's "bromance"...

The wrong sites for solar

The wrong sites for solar

By Erica Rosenberg and Janine Blaeloch

Is it possible that solar energy — clean, renewable, virtually infinite — could have a downside? As it's being pursued on our...

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