By Steven Pifer and Michael O'Hanlon
Whoever is president next year will have a chance to use arms control to make the world safer.
By Shane Bauer
Solitary confinement is wrong, whether it's in here or in Iran.
By K.C. Cole
Blame 'default assumptions,' which can skew our judgment.
By Meghan Daum
Her display of a fake tattoo in support of Malala Yousafzai isn't really helping the cause of women's rights.
By Patt Morrison
As executive director of the Los Angeles Conservancy for 20 years, she's been a driving force in saving the history of a forward-looking city.
By Doyle McManus
Both Romney and Obama performed well. But the president got the bump he badly needed.
By Mark Gold
The federal law has made life better nationwide, but 40 years later, it desperately needs to be updated.
By Michael Kinsley
In evaluating the candidates' claims, you can trust your own sweet reason.
By Jonah Goldberg
Are Paul Ryan and Joe Biden theocrats willing to use state power to impose their religious views on the rest of us?
By Jo Ellen Chatham
It's possible to support Mitt Romney and Big Bird too.
By Gregory Rodriguez
No matter how often you check your smartphone, you won't get the whole story.
By Jim Newton
If publisher Tim Crews loses his public records case, we all lose as well.
By John Gehring
Progressive nuns and other concerned Roman Catholics fight to keep the church's liberalism alive.
By Jon Wiener
Conservatives at the time accused President Kennedy of capitulation in the Cuban missile crisis. No more.
By David N. Myers
Tolerance in and out of the classroom is part of democracy's foundation, in the U.S. and Israel.
By Doyle McManus
The roughly 18% of voters who haven't completely made up their minds are seeking less fluff, firm leadership and bipartisanship.
By Stephen Randall
Variety has a new owner, and all over Hollywood, trembling lips are asking the same question.
By Laura Ling
But there are signs that the regime is losing its iron grip.
By Jamie Court
$5-a-gallon gas is a wake-up call. Let's change the way oil companies operate here.
By Daniel Imhoff and Michael R. Dimock
The initiative is rooted in a simple premise: Consumers have the right to know if their food is produced using genetic engineering.
By Meghan Daum
The president Obama has committed few political mistakes, but the first debate was a real dud. But it doesn't have to mean failure.
By Michael Kinsley
OK, maybe it wouldn't be the end of the world. But I'm still voting for Obama.
By Patt Morrison
The longtime GOP congressman reflects on his life and the times in Washington.
By Robert A. Pastor
Forget about overthrowing Assad. Both sides need to avoid a long civil war and agree to meaningful reforms.
By Doyle McManus
When four major polls move in the same direction, it's no mirage. The Romney campaign found new momentum in last week's debate, and the Obama campaign hasn't stopped it yet.
By Lee C. Bollinger and Claude M. Steele
The Supreme Court should recognize that we all benefit from affirmative action in college admissions.
By Tom Engelhardt
Military actions have become the tics of an overwrought great power.
By Jim Newton
The race between Assemblyman Mike Feuer and City Atty. Carmen Trutanich will be intense — and rancorous.
By Jonah Goldberg
The Obama campaign should stop saying that the Bush-era tax cuts led to the financial crisis.
By Richard Drooyan and Miriam Aroni Krinsky
The Citizens' Commission on Jail Violence has provided a sensible way forward for Sheriff Lee Baca and county officials.
By Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr.
There's evidence that many students don't thrive in colleges for which they're far less prepared than their fellow students.
By Lynn Povich
Hands and lips don't wander the way they did when a group of women filed a groundbreaking lawsuit at Newsweek in 1970. But women still face sexism at work.
By Ann Whitford Paul
When Sarah became Finn, her parents began their own journey.