Biography  

Rosa Brooks


Recent Columns:
April 9, 2009
This will be my last column for the L.A. Times. After four years, I'll soon be starting a stint at the Pentagon as an advisor to the undersecretary of Defense for policy.

March 5, 2009
How did they ever get away with it?

February 26, 2009
My mother is a terrorist!

February 19, 2009
Brother, can you spare $22 billion?

February 12, 2009
You "can never be too rich or too thin," said the Duchess of Windsor, who was wrong on both counts.

February 5, 2009
Is it finally time to "finish the job" in Afghanistan?

January 29, 2009
Barack Obama ended four wars during his first week as president. With just a few words and strokes of his pen, the president ended the war on terror, the war on Islam, the war on science and the war on women.

January 22, 2009
Keep quiet, please.

January 15, 2009
Admit it -- you're gonna miss him.

January 8, 2009