Though it is rare, the occasional American presidential election goes to the loser of the popular vote, an outcome that undermines basic...
Rupert Murdoch is an attractive target for politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. Allegations that investigators for his flagship London...
Even if the White House and congressional leaders reach a deal to raise the debt limit, they face at least two hurdles to persuading rank-...
Like little Leiby Kletzky, my youngest child pleaded for a little more freedom at the age of 8. She wanted to walk by herself the 500 feet...
The Yellowstone River, dubbed "America's last best river" by National Geographic, is, or was, a pristine 700-mile waterway through Montana...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has proposed another Washington bailout — the parachute kind, that is. Concerned that...
It is beginning to look as if respectable British newspapers might be collateral damage in the backlash against Rupert Murdoch and his...
What is it that makes marijuana more frightening to the federal government than cocaine or morphine? The Drug Enforcement Administration has...
After several months of intense lobbying, new rules have been proposed governing the so-called parent trigger process that allows parents to...
A decision by the United States to suspend $800 million in military aid to Pakistan is both understandable and regrettable. Understandable...
Following the dubious lead of their counterparts in Sacramento, congressional Republicans appear poised to reject a broad victory for the...
Thousands of new parolees are coming to Los Angeles County as part of the state's effort to ease prison overcrowding. To deal with them, the...
For years, the Humane Society of the United States and United Egg Producers have been adversaries over the treatment of the 280 million egg-...
One of Congress' responses to the Depression was the National Labor Relations Act, which officially encourages collective bargaining between...
Colombia's decades-long armed conflict has left tens of thousands dead and forced more than 3.6 million people off their land. Last month,...
The name Antelope Valley evokes a picturesque desert-scape where pronghorns once roamed and people now live quietly in rambling homes on...
The Times' editorial board meets around a long table in a room hung with images of the interlocking histories of this newspaper and its city...
A federal appeals court panel has ruled that Michigan's ban on affirmative action in higher education — similar to California's...
Republicans are livid about the way the Obama administration handled the apprehension and arrest of an accused Somali terrorist. But —...
When a member of the U.S. military is killed in the line of duty in a combat zone, the president sends a condolence letter to his or her...
The Board of Supervisors just can't seem to decide how to run its overburdened county. Several years ago the members ...
Ham-fisted yet pandering, and fiscally irresponsible too, AB 114 perpetrates an abuse of state power that...
After months of negotiations, movie studios, record labels and five top U.S. Internet service providers
The new head of California's stem cell research agency, which has a staff of 50, not only makes more money than the governor, he makes twice...
The University of California cannot afford to be quite the institution it has been for decades: the provider of an easily affordable yet...
As if they didn't have enough problems with online piracy, the major record labels say they've seen a surge in high-quality counterfeit...
Not to Al Gore anybody's ox, but a lot of you Whole Foods hipsters think you're...
These are interesting times for those who work in the field of juvenile justice. In many states, lawmakers and voters are turning away...
A prosecutor assigned to investigate the CIA's use of torture has decided not to recommend further investigation of as many as 100 CIA...
The debate over whether federal regulators should allow Avastin to be marketed as a breast cancer treatment has been characterized as a...