It's hard to imagine a more trying time for students and teachers at the Los Angeles Unified School District. Even more difficult is...
The House passed a sweeping healthcare reform bill Saturday despite the opposition of as well as 39...
There's a law of diminishing returns for environmental regulation: As more specific rules are applied to ever-smaller details, the negative...
If you think the partisan divide over healthcare reform is ugly, take a look at the animus in the Senate as debate continues on a key...
'Extrajudicial detentions" and "extraordinary renditions" were nicely scrubbed terms for the Bush administration's policy of capturing...
The Obama administration last week brokered what looked like a promising deal to end the political crisis in Honduras. Sadly, this week it...
The package adopted by the Legislature early Wednesday is somewhat like a gallon of water poured out of a bucket -- almost impossible to...
If not in Maine, then where? Until the polls closed Tuesday evening, supporters of same-sex marriage appeared to be within grasp of their...
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa consulted widely, thought carefully and chose wisely in his selection of Deputy Chief Charlie Beck to become the...
Whatever happened to the shabby, low-paid academic, pipe in mouth, tweed jacket frayed at the elbows? To start with, many were smart...
Ignoring the advice of this page, transit experts and both the...
In the first round of balloting, Afghan President Hamid Karzai received 1 million "ghost votes" from people who simply didn't exist. When...
Ross Johnson represented Orange County in the Legislature for 26 years, and one of the chief accomplishments of his tenure was to get voters...
Democratic leaders of the House unveiled a sweeping, 1,990-page healthcare reform bill last week that they plan to take to the floor early...
It's back to business as usual at the Los Angeles Unified School District, and that's not a good thing. The district's potentially...
Shepard Fairey, a Los Angeles-based "street artist," has made a career out of recycling other people's images. His admirers say he uses...
Even as Congress pushes...
One of the chief arguments for Roman Polanski in his otherwise not-very-defensible case is that his victim -- the girl he allegedly drugged,...
As the first doses of swine flu vaccine were made available this month, it looked as though the public might be scared away from...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton set out for Pakistan this week on a charm offensive, hoping to curtail anti-Americanism by...
For-profit medical marijuana dispensers beware: The city of Los Angeles is focusing its finest legal and political minds on putting you...
Virtually the first order of business for Barack Obama after his inauguration was a series of executive...
Former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez has every reason to feel pleased that a state panel probing his lavish spending cleared him of any...
For its 11 million members, as well as millions more nonmembers that sport fur, feathers or scales, the Humane Society of the United States'...
Until a few days ago, the food industry was moving ahead with its program to label products such as Lucky Charms cereal and Ritz Bits Peanut...
The Los Angeles Police Commission has completed its work and forwarded to the mayor three capable candidates to succeed William J. Bratton...
More than a year ago, a group of business leaders called the Bay Area Council became so fed up with dysfunction in Sacramento that it called...
Tons of explosives, suicide bombers in coordinated attacks and triple-digit death tolls. The wreckage at the Iraqi Justice Ministry and...