California's attorney general and prospective Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Jerry Brown, is trapped in a political cage from which...
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is warning the District of Columbia Council that the church will stop...
Aman's home may be his castle, but few of us -- even celebrities -- have moats these days to protect our privacy. That was true long before...
Eight months after President Obama nominated him to the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, a jurist from Indiana may finally have a chance...
On his first official visit to Asia, President Obama has sought to reassure China that the United States does not want to contain its rise,...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has emerged in recent years as a vigorous proponent of strong intellectual-...
As healthcare reform legislation advances in Congress, more state lawmakers are looking for ways to limit its effects on their constituents....
It's not yet clear whether the California Public Employees' Retirement System, better known as CalPERS, has engaged in the same kind of pay-...
To predictable criticism, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Friday that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed...
Autumn is the beginning of a dangerous season for the youngest victims of the sex trade. Sports championships,...
The endless loop that is the Los Angeles city controller-city attorney dispute returns on Tuesday to the City Council, which has the power...
It's hard to build public transit projects in Los Angeles under the best of circumstances, but the Gold Line light-rail spur from Union...
Europeans love to diss the selective environmentalism of Americans. And they have a point, given this nation's lax attitude about many toxic...
In recent years, the Christmas season has been associated as much with political and legal squabbles as with mistletoe, street-corner...
Poverty, famine and disease overseas lead to lawlessness, instability, revolution and terrorism that threaten American interests, and...
The federal jury that acquitted two Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers of securities fraud this week...
The Los Angeles Unified School District is trying to make the transition from a centralized bureaucracy that dictates the minutiae of...
The public is kinder to its veterans today than it was during the Vietnam War, when soldiers risked their lives overseas only to face...
Debate is a venerable oratorical form, a verbal art, if you will. It's a shame that the modern incarnation of debate -- the anger-fraught,...
Ayear after the Big Three implored Congress to save their industry from collapse, the fortunes of U.S....
Did Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the accused gunman in Thursday's rampage at Ft. Hood, Texas, commit mass murder because of a mental...
Today's episode of “Sesame Street” is brought to you by the number 40. The...
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...
