Apparently, Alabama lawmakers felt they hadn't gone far enough last year when they enacted the most draconian immigration law in the nation,...
Until 1996, members of the news media could conduct one-on-one interviews with inmates in California prisons, giving the public a deeper...
A federal appeals court in Washington has upheld a key part of the Voting Rights Act, one that requires states and localities with a history...
Last year's tussle over increasing the federal debt limit showed Congress at its worst, paralyzed by dueling ideologies and incapable of...
After years in which California Republican lawmakers took their marching orders from out-of-state anti-tax groups, some GOP candidates are...
As the war on drugs has spread from Mexico to Central America, so has the U.S. role in Honduras. Pentagon contracts are helping to fund...
The City Council on Wednesday will consider whether to ban stores in Los Angeles from offering single-use plastic carry-out bags. A ban...
Carlos DeLuna was, in all likelihood, murdered by the state of Texas on Dec. 7, 1989.
As the United States finally begins to wind down its military presence in Afghanistan, is the Obama administration poised to replicate...
"Do you need any help out with your groceries today?"
People generally don't think of the elderly as nuisance neighbors. They rarely throw loud late-night parties, play loud music or have loud...
At any one time, hundreds of clinical trials are underway in the U.S. to test simpler and more effective ways to treat and prevent HIV...
Prodded by an ultraconservative Catholic group, the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., has criticized Friday's scheduled speech at...
There is a bit to cheer in the proposed budget that the City Council could take up as early as Friday. An uptick in property tax revenue...
As a singer and songwriter for the 1970s disco group the Village People, Victor Willis scored multiple hits that helped define that era...
When Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. announced in 2009 that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other accused Sept. 11 conspirators would be tried...
One measure of the extreme polarization of the House is that GOP leaders bring bills to the floor only if they have enough Republican...
California's tenure protections for teachers go too far, and the Legislature has been unwilling to do anything about it.
When Lee Baca took over the L.A. County Sheriff's Department in 1998, he publicly pledged to end excessive use of force and brutality by...
The political climate in Congress is so noxious these days that even a law that originally passed with overwhelming bipartisan support...
Gov. Jerry Brown's May budget revision leaves blood all over the Capitol walls. The era when California governors could make their cuts with...
Bias: An April 7 editorial about political bias at the University of California said that a report by the California Assn. of...
Most voters have by now received their sample ballots, and those who plan to vote by mail are sending in their applications. The June 5...
There is something very wrong with the relationship between the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the voters who elect them. The...
Los Angeles County voters will soon select a new district attorney, and it likely will be their most consequential vote in years. It is hard...
The Los Angeles Unified school board did an injustice to hundreds of students and to the school reform movement when it overrode the...
State Sen. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) is right to be offended by "conversion therapy," the pseudo-psychiatric treatment that purports to talk...
Los Angeles County voters face two tax measures on the June 5 ballot, and they are unusual for several reasons: They ratify taxes that are...
California's redistricting reforms of 2008 and 2010 took crucial boundary drawing power away from political parties and gave it to an...
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