Debating healthcare reform the old-fashioned way
It's a battle of special interests and parochialism.
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The California fix
An occasional series of editorials and Op-Eds on the crisis confronting California.
Editorial series: Rehabilitating Healthcare
The editorial board discusses the rationale for a healthcare overhaul and the competing proposals to...
Op-Ed columnists
Meghan Daum
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Gregory Rodriguez
The American way: Smile if you're insecure - November 16, 2009
A Luddite in the library
Iam a Luddite. I refuse to use an electric toothbrush or can opener. I threw away our plug-in teakettle. I only read actual books; I don't...
How East views West
While stateside scribblers were throwing the book at Sarah Palin, how did our Far Eastern counterparts present our president? Singapore's...
Understanding China
The dynamics of President Obama's trip to China were markedly different from those evident on visits made by President Clinton and President...
MOCA man
Paul Schimmel doesn't need much encouragement to squire a guest around the Museum of Contemporary Art's galleries, which he does with the...
Senate inquiry into Ft. Hood misplaced
Sen. Joe Lieberman insists on pushing ahead with a Senate inquiry into the mass murder at Ft. Hood, despite White House...
The sad-looking palms at LAPD headquarters could use a hand
Are they stressed? Sick? Sad? Mortified? Who can see the stand of palm trees on the corner of 2nd and Spring and not feel just a tinge of...
Oysters, or not
Every year, about 15 people die after eating raw oysters tainted with a bacterium that has no effect on healthy diners but can be deadly...
The AMA's reversal on marijuana
For all the debate over whether marijuana has medicinal value, arguments that the drug has significant palliative properties or that it...
UC on the brink
Sorry to say, the University of California Board of Regents took the easiest route possible out of its crushing financial dilemma Thursday...
New view of mammograms
Everyone who knows the prevailing medical wisdom on hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women, please stand up.
Fixing the music royalties system
The founders gave Congress the power to bestow on authors and inventors exclusive rights to the use of their work, and those rights have...
