By Doyle McManus
It was hard to find the olive branch in the president's inaugural address.
By Jonah Goldberg
It's ridiculous to hold the freedom, health and happiness of the many hostage to the potentially bad actions of the few.
By Jim Newton
The city councilman and ex-cop, who is running for L.A. controller, says he knows right from wrong, he's frugal and — well, how much time do you have?
By Nina Eliasoph
Early advocates saw the role of volunteerism in promoting reform as an important goal and as a cornerstone of democracy. We must return to this view.
By Tom Hayden
Forty years after the Paris peace agreement, the city — and the country — bear reminders of the war.
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 Jim Newton
The mayor got the LAPD to 10,000. But we don't have any more police.
By Elton Gallegly
To move America forward, the members of the 113th Congress must find ways to reach common ground despite competing convictions.
By Sue Gardner
If anyone can write and edit Wikipedia, how do we know it's accurate?
By Ted Rall
By Amy Wilentz
Reporters working abroad used to assume that those they wrote about wouldn't see their stories. No more.
By Doyle McManus
The White House may use Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearing to emphasize a tougher stance toward Tehran.
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 Bruce Ackerman and Tokujin Matsudaira
Constitutional revisions would lay the foundation for an authoritarian country.
By Wade Davis
In sports like professional football, gay athletes may have good reason to keep their sexual orientation to themselves.
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 Vicki Leon
Take a lesson from 356 BC: Infamy should not be headlined.
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 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 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 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?
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