By Odd Arne Westad
The nation's behavior as a modern superpower is reminiscent of its imperial past.
By Doyle McManus
The president will take some hard-learned lessons from his first term into his second.
By Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell
Imagine the city that would exist today if the best proposals for remedying its ailments had been realized.
By Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman
Japan's leaders still won't acknowledge their country's wartime atrocities.
By Mike Gatto
The Low Carbon Fuel Standard was intended to reduce California carbon emissions, but it may come with some terrible unintended consequences.
By Steve Oney
The Georgia journalist played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement.
By Meghan Daum
To reduce her speech to a declaration of sexuality is to ignore all the other things that she was telling us.
By Doyle McManus
The party is united now, but even if Obama wins the debt-ceiling fight, Democrats can't escape the spending problem.
By Sheila Krumholz
Money is pouring in for the president's inauguration. But who's it coming from? We don't really know.
By Michael Shermer
Defensive survival steps, 'citizens watch' systems and bans on large-capacity magazines and semiautomatic assault weapons are reasonable measures.
By David Kopel
Good guys with guns have managed to keep a list of shooters from carrying out the kinds of attacks that get far more publicity.
By Max Boot
White House talk of 3,000 personnel — or none — by the end of 2014 ignores the reality of the situation there.
By Jonah Goldberg
It's not that the Republican Party isn't conservative enough, it's that it isn't tactically smart or persuasive enough.
By Ted Rall
By Elton Gallegly
To move America forward, the members of the 113th Congress must find ways to reach common ground despite competing convictions.
By Jim Newton
The mayor got the LAPD to 10,000. But we don't have any more police.
By Sue Gardner
If anyone can write and edit Wikipedia, how do we know it's accurate?
By Doyle McManus
The White House may use Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearing to emphasize a tougher stance toward Tehran.
By Amy Wilentz
Reporters working abroad used to assume that those they wrote about wouldn't see their stories. No more.
By Karen Stabiner
Is 'hey' democracy in action — the same short syllable delivered to everyone? Or is it just a vague, lazy place holder like 'like'?
By Wade Davis
In sports like professional football, gay athletes may have good reason to keep their sexual orientation to themselves.
By Bruce Ackerman and Tokujin Matsudaira
Constitutional revisions would lay the foundation for an authoritarian country.
By Vicki Leon
Take a lesson from 356 BC: Infamy should not be headlined.
By Michael Kinsley
Separate rules once existed for the battlefield and for normal times and places. Now a war zone can be anywhere, with drones the weapon of choice.
By Meghan Daum
Supporters are already imagining her in the Oval Office. The idea that her choice, defeat or a health or personal circumstance will keep her out remains devastating to them.
By Tom Engelhardt
Blood, torture, assassination and death — beyond the exploits in 'Zero Dark Thirty,' there are other CIA plots and fiascoes that would make compelling cinema.
By Patt Morrison
She's Los Angeles County's first female and first African American district attorney. So L.A. wants to know: What will Jackie do?
By Lucy Hood
L.A.'s tech hub is an underused catalyst for economic growth. Each mayoral candidate should have a plan to nurture it.
By Doyle McManus
Some think the party should change course. Others want to double down.
By Rajan Menon
After nearly two years of civil strife, neither side sees a reason to quit fighting.
By Aaron David Miller
What American Jews or Israelis think about Chuck Hagel's views on Israel shouldn't be the primary criterion to judge his nomination for secretary of Defense.
By Daoud Kuttab
The Arab network should be a welcome source for U.S. news junkies.
By Jonah Goldberg
Obama chose Hagel for Defense chief only to pick a fight with his opponents.
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