By Jaime O'Neill
Dear Students,
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...
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...
Christopher Kutz
Reactions to the Dominique Strauss-Kahn spectacle have been starkly different on the two sides of the Atlantic, and self-congratulations...
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...
By Doyle McManus
Last year, a Muslim congregation in Murfreesboro, Tenn., a pleasant college town of about 110,000 people southeast of Nashville, decided...
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"...
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...
By Nora Murphy
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...
By Tim Rutten
These days, the battle for economic justice is fought daily in a thousand obscure skirmishes in boardrooms and executive suites across the...
By Jonah Goldberg
The Republican presidential logjam has finally broken.
By Michael K. Fox
Major League Baseball's takeover of the Los Angeles Dodgers raises the question of who might be the team's next owners. It's the hope of...
By Lee Baca
Consider the following case: In January, a local police agency arrested a man for driving with a suspended license. A subsequent fingerprint...
By Burt Solomon
If the McCourts' ugly divorce has plucked the Dodgers from Angelenos' control, consider this: It was a divorce that brought the ballclub...
By Jed Rubenfeld
First came the street celebrations; then the changing accounts of what happened; then the second-guessing — domestic and foreign.
By Jim Newton
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...
By Gregory Rodriguez
Woohoo! Secularism has arrived. That was one reaction to the news that Pitzer College in Claremont is launching a secular studies...
By Craig Fehrman
Where were you when you found out about the death of Osama bin Laden? Or, a better question: What did you do next?
By Jessie Seiler
Before I joined the Peace Corps, I had heard all the stereotypes. Volunteers were a bunch of privileged white kids, I was told. Guitar-...
By Randall Tremba
Last week, a majority of the 173 presbyteries making up the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. voted to amend the church's constitution and allow...
By Harold Meyerson
The newest slumlord in Los Angeles is a pillar of German capitalism. Earlier this month, the city attorney's office filed suit against...
By Barry Goldman
Jacob is a golden retriever. Like many goldens, his favorite activity is retrieving a tennis ball. We throw the ball; he brings it back...
By Tim Rutten
At the nation's Roman Catholic universities, controversy over the choice of commencement speakers has become almost as regular an annual...
By Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
One school of thought about the so-called jobless recovery of the American economy blames high unemployment on the federal deficit. But...
By Timothy Garton Ash
How can we best combat the anti-immigrant populists who are setting the political pace in many European countries? This month, a verdict...
By Hernán D. Vera
As California lurches once again toward major budget cuts, the state's justice gap keeps getting wider. That's the space between our...
By Michael Oren
The world shared the American people's gratitude for the special forces who rid us of Osama bin Laden, but there was one flagrant exception.
By Hirokazu Yoshikawa
President Obama spoke Tuesday about the economic reasons for providing a pathway to citizenship for the nation's undocumented. This is...
By Tim Rutten
If congressional negotiators fail to resolve their impasse over the federal debt ceiling, we may recall this moment in history as one of the...
By Steven Hill
Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed many solutions for California's political and economic crises. Yet there's one rock the governor could lift...