At the beginning of this year, just as President Obama was taking office, a lawsuit was heading to court in California in which the Bush...
What wouldn't California do for $700 million right now? That's not a rhetorical question. With U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan...
Support for overhauling the nation's food safety system is nearly unanimous. Even the agriculture industry agrees, by and large, that...
California is a bad place to be hungry. While the demand for food stamps is increasing across the nation, people who are eligible for the...
The Obama administration has embraced many troubling national security policies adopted by the Bush administration, but in most of these...
This week, Facebook finally implemented the privacy enhancements it promised several months ago. And...
One job-stimulus idea: Have the federal government pay $1 million to keep several dozen people employed for just a few months while damaging...
Struggling to adapt to the Internet, entertainment and media companies have gone back and forth over the issue of whether to charge for...
We've said before, and still believe, that awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize after so short a time in office and so few...
No one understands the revolutionary potential of students better than old revolutionaries. That's one reason Iranian security forces fought...
Chile has developed a strong democracy in the 20 years since the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet ended, and yet the blue-eyed...
Eager to put more unemployed Americans to work, the Obama administration and congressional Democrats want to tap into an unexpected source...
Five moderate Senate Democrats struck a tentative compromise this week with five liberal colleagues...
They seem remarkably similar at first, the two cases involving leaders of publicly funded educational organizations in California who,...
The landslide reelection of Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales this week comes as no surprise. He is the first Aymara Indian and...
The families that run the city of Vernon (population: 90-something) were alarmed nearly four years ago when a handful of newcomers moved...
How could the federal government make the increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan even less acceptable...
The Environmental Protection Agency released a historic finding Monday that greenhouse gases are endangering public health and welfare. Rep....
It's voting day in Los Angeles' 2nd Council District, which runs from the hills of the northeastern San Fernando Valley to Ventura...
In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court wisely ruled that it was unconstitutional for a jury deciding...
Norway's environment minister called the United Nations climate negotiations starting today in...
The Times has endorsed former studio executive and city commissioner Christine Essel in Tuesday's 2nd District City Council runoff. We...
There is a perennial danger in imagining that one war will replicate the history of another. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney sent troops to...
Toyota did the right thing when it recalled more than 4 million cars and...
The pursuit of peace often trumps the pursuit of justice. The desire to move forward after a war makes political leaders reluctant to stir...
The Times endorsed studio executive Christine Essel in the Sept. 22 special election to fill Los Angeles' 2nd District City Council seat....
New Year's Day will mark the end of one of the unhappiest decades ever for the entertainment industry -- a span that saw piracy...
Reasonable people agree that precautions should be taken to keep psychologically impaired individuals from buying guns. In the enduring...
Peasant farmers in the Andean nations of Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru often have a choice of growing two crops: flowers for export to...
