By Susan Brenneman
The Golden Gate Bridge turns 75 today. When it opened to pedestrians on May 27, 1937, 200,000 people crossed it on foot, roller skates or...
By Michael Kinsley
China Daily, the largest English-language newspaper in China, carried a front-page headline last week: "Village Gratitude Shows Integrity of...
By John Bateson
As San Francisco hosts a citywide birthday party for the Golden Gate Bridge's 75th anniversary, one thing that won't be celebrated is the...
Mexico election: A May 22 Op-Ed about Mexican presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto should have disclosed that the author'...
By Robin Simcox
In the year since President Obama approved a successful raid against Osama bin Laden, public opinion has been shifting. While many...
By Jonathan Hunter and Autumn M. Elliott
Los Angeles has made slow but significant progress toward ending homelessness, but the City Council is about to vote on a proposed law...
By Meghan Daum
What spreads almost as fast as necrotizing fasciitis, a.k.a. flesh-eating infection? News stories about it.
Banks: In a May 22 Op-Ed about JP Morgan Chase's risky derivatives swaps, the subtitle of contributor Lynn Stout's book was missing a...
By Patt Morrison
Dolores Huerta runs on righteous ferocity the way cars run on gasoline. The woman who co-founded the United Farm Workers union 50 years...
By David M. Walker
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both smart and accomplished individuals. That's why it is so disappointing that neither candidate has taken...
By Chuck Freilich
It is a bad outcome — but it is the least bad of the available options.
By John M. Ackerman
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican version of the old Soviet Politburo is poised to make a comeback, with potentially disastrous consequences...
By Lynn Stout
Addiction counselors tell their clients, "We can't help you until you admit you have a problem." It's time for American financial...
By Jonah Goldberg
The current debate over Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital is shaping up to be a centerpiece of the presidential campaign.
By Jim Newton
Gloria Romero is a Democrat. She was elected to the California Assembly as a Democrat and later to the state Senate. She served as...
By Ban Ki-moon
As the World Health Assembly convenes in Geneva this week, one item on the agenda will be polio, or more specifically, how to finally...
By Neal Gabler
Barack Obama wanted to be a transformational president, and as we head into the general election, he may have gotten his wish — just...
By Doyle McManus
The Supreme Court is about to toss a judicial bomb into the middle of the presidential campaign, and nobody knows what impact it will have.
By John M. Ellis and Charles L. Geshekter
Political advocacy corrupts academic institutions. Why? Because the mind-set of a genuine academic teacher is in every important respect the...
By David Treuer
During the election cycle we tend to ask: What does America mean; where are we going? And then someone decides to check on the Indians to...
By Peter Garrison
These days, the sound of the digital scythe being whetted makes me cast more lingering looks at the paper and cardboard relics on my...
By Troy Senik
California's education tailspin has been blamed on class sizes, on the property tax restrictions enforced by Proposition 13, on an influx of...
By Veronique de Rugy
Talks to form a coalition government in Greece collapsed again this week as a result of the country's belt-tightening backlash. The...
By Barbara Ehrenreich
Individually, the poor are not all that tempting to thieves. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a...
By Doyle McManus
What happens if you start a political party and nobody comes? Six months ago, a newfangled third party burst onto the scene, full of hope...
By Timothy Garton Ash
When Germany'schancellor, Hannelore Kraft, met France's president, Francois Hollande, in a sunny Berlin earlier this week, they agreed on...
Choate: Michael Kinsley's May 13 column misspelled the name of a Connecticut school. It is Choate, not Choat.
By Patt Morrison
The class clown from Mr. Gadberry's high school art class has made good — and how. Rebecca Mieliwocki teaches seventh-grade English at...
By Bruce Ackerman
Is citizenship a commodity, to be bought and sold when the price is right?
By Joseph Margulies
Last week, my colleagues and I did something defense attorneys rarely do: We asked the government to file charges against our client. And...
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