By Doyle McManus
When pro-democracy demonstrations erupted in Syria this spring, President Obama offered Syrian President Bashar Assad one more chance to...
By Rob Long
About the first thing I heard 20 years ago, when I moved to Los Angeles, was this: "Take surface streets."
By George Alexander
I began covering the space shuttle project in 1972, soon after President Nixon authorized it. I had recently joined this newspaper as a...
Ray Reisler and Leslie Gilbert-Lurie
In Pittsburgh, according to an Aspen Institute report, the local teachers union and the school district have gone from "sitting across the...
By Deborah MacInnis
Anytime a VIP gets caught with his (or her) pants down — Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Weiner, for example — you can almost...
By Robert L. Shapiro
After Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her daughter Caylee this week, a disturbing spectacle unfolded outside the Florida...
By Patt Morrison
Everybody knows that newlyweds William and Kate are in town this weekend. But Kenny Kingston says he knows how that royal marriage will work...
By Adam Skaggs and Maria da Silva
Denouncing a proposal to cut $150 million out of a courts budget that has already absorbed a $200-million reduction, California's chief...
By Allan Luks
Among the many proposals to raise taxes and cut and reallocate government spending to regain our country's economic health, one of the...
By Doyle McManus
President Obama faces an uphill struggle in his campaign for reelection next year. His job approval rating is stuck just below 50%. The...
By Meghan Daum
There's something exhilarating about walking out of a movie. Not only does it reacquaint you with the notion of your own free will ("Wait...
By Naomi Klein
"We're a disaster area," Alexis Bonogofsky told me, "and it's going to take a long time to get over it."