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Letters: Fiction vs. nonfiction
Re “What students read,” Editorial, Dec. 27 It's a mistake to believe that fiction is intrinsically superior to nonfiction. The ideas expressed in great speeches over the years, for example, hold their own against the classics because they...Tags: Arts and Culture, Literature
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Revisionism Tokyo-style
This month 75 years ago, the people of Nanking, China's ancient capital city, were in the midst of one of the worst atrocities in history, the infamous Rape of Nanking. The truth of what actually happened is at the center of a bitter dispute between China...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Criminals, Tokyo (Japan), World War II (1939-1945), Armed Conflicts
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Neo-Confederates in Congress resist a rapidly changing world
Revolutionary changes are coming at us at supersonic speed, bringing new challenges that are existential and global. Yet our political system seems incapable of adapting to, or even fully acknowledging, those changes. Instead, the system is constricted by...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Personal Weapon Control, Roman Catholicism, Ecosystems, Interior Policy
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Lessons for Obama from reading inaugurals past [Video chat]
Editor's note: Join Hector Tobar and book critic David L. Ulin on the Jacket Copy blog for a live video chat on the literary legacy of American inaugurations in general, and President Obama's 2013 inauguration in particular, on Tuesday at 10 a.m. Pacific....
Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama
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Romney victory would vindicate right-wing smears of Obama
It is impossible to know if Mitt Romney would turn out to be a good, bad or a mediocre president, but one certain downside of a Romney victory is that it would reward the most venal forces in American politics. It only starts with the kind of campaign...
Tags: Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Rick Santorum
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1936 Alf Landon supporter
FrameworkLewis Hamlin sits in truck he donated to the Republican nominees Alf Long and Col. Frank Knox campaign in Southern California.... -
Franklin Roosevelt at the Hollywood Bowl
FrameworkGov. Franklin D. Roosevelt waves during a campaign speech to a large crowd at the Hollywood Bowl.... -
The 1940 ‘No Third Term’ campaign
FrameworkA "No Third Term" billboard is unveiled at Wilshire Blvd. and Ardmore Av. by supporters of Republican Presidential nominee Wendell Willkie.... -
San Francisco sheriff keeps job despite domestic violence claims
L.A. NOWSan Franscisco's embattled sheriff will keep his job after all. San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday evening that Ross Mirkarimi did not commit official misconduct during an incident of domestic violence and that he should be returned to... -
Lincoln and FDR movies are a reminder politics is seldom pretty
Two new movies, “Lincoln” and “Hyde Park on the Hudson,” are intimate portraits of the two most consequential presidents of the United States. They are timely reminders that politics has never been pretty and our leaders have never...
Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Congress, Daniel Day-Lewis, Polio, World War II (1939-1945)
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Obama wins a second term
President Obama overcame a disappointingly slow economic recovery and a massive advertising onslaught to win a second term Tuesday night, forging a coalition of women, minorities and young people that reflects the changing political face of America....
Tags: Polls, Barack Obama, Social Issues, Tea Party Movement, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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For the record
Presidential election: A Nov. 7 editorial incorrectly stated that President Obama was the first president to be reelected with fewer electoral votes than he won the first time. The same was true of Woodrow Wilson, and of Franklin D. Roosevelt in his third...Tags: Woodrow Wilson, Politics, Elections, Barack Obama
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