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Endorsements recap: The Times recommends

Endorsements recap: The Times recommends

Our choices for mayor, city attorney, controller, City Council and school district seats and on ballot measures.

 

The second-term scandal plague

What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity.

Cause for hope -- and fear -- in Pakistan

Can new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif succeed? That will depend largely on whether he has the strength of will to resist the military and to confront radical Islamists.

 
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The specter of human cloning

The specter of human cloning

A breakthrough in stem cell research has again raised the specter of human cloning. The discovery by a team at Oregon Health and Science...

A federal 'shield' for reporters

A federal 'shield' for reporters

President Obama may be engaging in political damage control in proposing that Congress resurrect legislation to protect the...

The Benghazi talking points

The Benghazi talking points

The furor over the Benghazi talking points continues. Republicans still see them as the main event in a campaign to embarrass President...

A return to the 'era of limits' in California

A return to the 'era of limits' in California

In a reminder of the boom years of the late 1990s, California's fiscal picture brightened in the first few months of 2013, leaving the state...

Whose attacks ads are those?

Whose attacks ads are those?

Of the many ways in which independent expenditures distort modern political life, among the most destructive is the obliteration of...

Spying on the AP

Spying on the AP

When the government obstructs the ability of a news organization to do its job, the most important victims are not journalists but readers....

 The Kermit Gosnell verdict

The Kermit Gosnell verdict

When Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell was put on trial for murder, activists seized on the case as a symbol of all that is wrong with...

 Nuking the filibuster

Nuking the filibuster

In requiring the U.S. Senate to confirm presidential appointments, the Constitution aims to ensure a second level of scrutiny of the...

 Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Not just any body

Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Not just any body

If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving...

Wal-Mart, Gap skirt the issue

Wal-Mart, Gap skirt the issue

If the horrific garment factory collapse last month in Bangladesh has any silver lining, it is the response from more than 30 of the world's...

For the record

Scully: A May 14 Op-Ed about Vin Scully said he had quit traveling with the Dodgers. Although he has cut back on his out-of-state...

Rall: Will California's Senate ban morons next?

Rall: Will California's Senate ban morons next?

The state Senate has approved an anti-"swatting" bill. Swatting is the act of pranksters who make false 911 calls in the hope of prompting a...

For a dying patient, a prescription of silence

For a dying patient, a prescription of silence

His wife was a patient at the clinic where I worked in my early days as a doctor. I saw her regularly for hypertension. But on one visit,...

 Mayor's race: The real money problem in L.A.

Mayor's race: The real money problem in L.A.

The media coverage and much of the public perception of the Los Angeles mayor's race have relentlessly focused on the money Los Angeles'...

Daum: The gift of a great dog

Daum: The gift of a great dog

We got another dog right away. That wasn't the plan. But back in March, less than two weeks after Rex died and when I still had faint...

 Jonathan Fielding, the public's MD

Jonathan Fielding, the public's MD

If you've got your health, the cliche goes, you've got just about everything. If you've got public health duties, you're responsible for...