By Patt Morrison
Somewhere between her Chilean family's life-or-death political realities and its intuitive, fantastical imagination is where the emigre author writes.
By Doyle McManus
The president, along with the U.S. public, has no interest in getting involved militarily in Syria.
By Mark Ridley-Thomas
Metro can include a stop there on the Crenshaw-to-LAX light-rail line. It has the money. But does it have the will to do the right thing?
By Suzanne Nossel
Will suppression or free speech win the battle in China and beyond?
By Bruce Klingner
Seoul needs to set limits before returning to its joint economic venture with North Korea.
By Jonah Goldberg
If science fiction is supposed to raise ambitions for what humans can accomplish, then Hollywood is failing.
By Jim Newton
The two mayoral candidates haven't focused on one of the city's leading economic drivers.
By Vicente Fox
Mexico's former president urges the U.S. to seize an opportunity to change its immigration laws to benefit both nations.
By Doyle McManus
The administration has streamlined government bureaucracy. So where's the applause?
By Tom Zoellner and Sam Kleiner
Tiny plastic markers called 'taggants' can help authorities trace explosives. But they're not used today because of one formidable opponent: the NRA.
By Garry South
In California especially, Latino voters' loyalty to the Democratic Party runs deep.
By Megan Marshall
George Jackson and his brother in 1970, and the Boston bombing suspects today: Was it commitment to an idea or to a big brother?
By George Bisharat
Proposed legislation from the California senator would ease entry to the U.S. for Israelis but would not ensure the same rights for Muslim and Arab American travelers.
By David Schenker
Despite concerns about stability, oil and Islamism, Beijing will continue to let Washington underwrite security in the gulf region.
By Jamie Alter Lynton
Ousting Supt. John Deasy, as the union wants, would hurt students.
By Russell Goldsmith and Michael Kelly
What are the candidates' plans for the city's four key assets?
By Craig Packer
Born free is good, but protected is better.
By Bill Frelick and Brian Jacek
Harsh rules enacted in 1996 prevent them from working for months or years, making many destitute.
By James K. Glassman
George W. Bush, with his institute and library, joins a public service elite.
By Doyle McManus
Lawmakers and other leaders use the horrific events to try to prove points about counter-terrorism policy, immigration reform, even the budget.
By Ross K. Baker
He needs Democrats to win control of the House if he is to cement his legislative legacy. But history shows that the chances of that happening are slim to none.
By Erwin Chemerinsky
The Constitution applies to us all, including the Boston bombings suspect.
By Jonah Goldberg
The unjustified rush to pin violence on the 'right wing' — particularly the tea parties — has reached the point of parody.
By Michael Krikorian
For years, the genocide fueled my anger at all things Turkish. Then I met Murat Kayali.
By Jim Newton
Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti are so lost in the details of what they'd do about the city budget that they aren't answering the larger questions.
By Greg Burk
The federal CALM act seems to have done little to tone down the volume of commercials.
By Doyle McManus
Once we get used to the idea, taxing carbon makes sense.
By Jonathan Zimmerman
Today's plush campuses ply students with absurdly lavish goods and services. No wonder it's so hard for them to pay their bills when they get out in the real world.
By John Johnson Jr.
In the dance craze were the seeds of everything that became the '60s.
By Sacha Feinman
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a suspect in the marathon attacks, failed to learn the lessons of the ring.
A photographer's homage to books uses Braille editions to underscore the threats physical books face in the digital age.
By Charles Shapiro
Nicolas Maduro's victory may be only skin-deep, and there is an upside to Henrique Capriles' loss.
By David Kipen
Obama loves 'Moby-Dick.' Eric Garcetti reads Borges. Wendy Greuel's husband is a literary agent. But what have they done for the liberal arts lately?