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ec7680720e0d3380abf5a46ec1cdfda0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-may-07-la-ol-beverly-hills-subway-fireball-nimybs-20120507-story.html | In the 90210, the newest horror flick is ‘Subway’ | In the 90210, the newest horror flick is ‘Subway’
Déjà vu 90210.
The scariest movie in town isn’t at the Cineplex, it’s the one that has been crafted at the behest of some parents of Beverly Hills High School students who don’t want the Metro subway to go under their kids’ school.
There have been movies featuring that ... |
9914829da6781cde6f63f92793ab244c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-may-07-la-ol-subway-beverly-hills-20120507-story.html | Beverly Hills subway video: Two thumbs up for explosions! | Beverly Hills subway video: Two thumbs up for explosions!
Do Joss Whedon’s kids go to Beverly Hills High School?
I ask because the school district’s parent teacher council recently came out with a video -- apparently made by parents of kids in the district, some of whom work in the entertainment industry -- intended to... |
ae15c427008a83ee9d8c2d1f30ce7d43 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-may-08-la-oe-workman-kill-trees-save-rivers-20120508-story.html | Our too-thirsty forests | Our too-thirsty forests
Ronald Reagan once justified logging with “a tree is a tree; how many more do you need to look at?” Besides, he warned, “trees cause more pollution than automobiles.” We cringed at his biases. Yet due to forces none foresaw, Reagan’s gaffes may now ring true.
Today, the hottest and thirstiest pa... |
94a465ab0db09f361194419fd8a8cfc6 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-may-08-la-ol-mitt-romney-auto-bailout-20120508-story.html | Mitt Romney saved Detroit? Really? | Mitt Romney saved Detroit? Really?
Presumptive GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is again claiming credit for saving the U.S. automobile industry. On Monday the former Massachusetts governor visited a manufacturer of truck parts in Euclid, Ohio, where he was interviewed by a local television station. The reporter ... |
2c96b7a29fcd1c932e48ad12d9b691ca | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-may-12-la-ol-c-trutanich-20120511-story.html | What’s the deal with D.A. candidate Carmen Trutanich? | What’s the deal with D.A. candidate Carmen Trutanich?
So what’s the deal with Carmen Trutanich, anyway? Is he the goofy but dangerous loose cannon, power-hungry crazy man that so many former supporters love to hate? Or is he the reform-oriented outsider who, in his own description, made a few high-profile missteps in h... |
2379fbab016281cda89118360ade8360 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-may-28-la-oe-shriver-vets-homeless-20120528-story.html | How to house homeless vets | How to house homeless vets
“Nobody who serves, nobody who fights for this country should have to fight for a job or a roof over their heads when they come back home,” President Obama said as he kicked off his 2012 campaign. And he pointed to his administration’s work for veterans. That claim may work elsewhere, but not... |
4ce3b404c30738adde6a7e02bb902e6c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-may-30-la-obama-vietnam-veterans-20120530-story.html | Obama takes sides in the ‘spitting on vets’ debate | Obama takes sides in the ‘spitting on vets’ debate
President Obama has sided with those who argue that returning Vietnam veterans were spat on by ungrateful opponents of that long-ago war. In a Memorial Day address at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the president didn’t literally endorse the spitting scenario, but he ga... |
09dad77a380c1001daef743e80c022ba | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-nov-05-la-oe-darling-teacher-evaluations-20121105-story.html | A better way to grade teachers | A better way to grade teachers
It’s becoming a familiar story: Great teachers get low scores from “value-added” teacher evaluation models. Newspapers across the country have published accounts of extraordinary teachers whose evaluations, based on their students’ state test scores, seem completely out of sync with the r... |
dfdde7c2e1da9e3f57a2f498d72c762d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-nov-12-la-ol-geoengineering-political-consequences-20121112-story.html | The pros and cons of trying to adjust the global thermostat | The pros and cons of trying to adjust the global thermostat
According to David Keith, a physicist at Harvard, it’s a fairly straightforward proposition to reduce the rate of warming on earth, and not all that expensive in the grand scheme of things. One possibility: fly a couple of customized corporate jets into the st... |
5ace430ddeb0e9cb03e2276eea4aa4c1 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-nov-13-la-ol-marijuana-legalization-20121112-story.html | Marijuana legalization: States send message, feds aren’t listening | Marijuana legalization: States send message, feds aren’t listening
Voters in Washington and Colorado didn’t just pass historic measures legalizing recreational marijuana use last week, they blew smoke in the face of Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and, by extension, President Obama. The bud stops at your desks, gentlemen.
Since... |
7c044d1ff51199356fd967dcfec9168f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-nov-15-la-oe-chayes-obama-foreign-policy-20121115-story.html | The world after Petraeus | The world after Petraeus
The scandal enveloping members of America’s adulated top brass is the deepest crisis to hit the military in decades. It is a crisis President Obama did not need — shaming the country and increasing his burden during a major transition on his national security team. And yet, crisis can be a grea... |
794cc2adc656db4ee4f47019e62abe4a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-nov-20-la-le-sarah-palin-for-president-in-2016-20121119-story.html | Letters: Is Sarah Palin presidential? | Letters: Is Sarah Palin presidential?
Re “Hey GOP, take the Palin cure,” Opinion, Nov. 18
Charlotte Allen’s kidding, right?
I hope so, because if not, her opinion piece is more proof that the GOP fails to understand how out of touch it is with the emerging electoral mainstream, which Sarah Palin does not represent. Sec... |
9dad1a02207248a2380bc6f118bf6084 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-nov-20-la-ol-hiv-test-20121120-story.html | AIDS testing for (almost) everyone? Absolutely. | AIDS testing for (almost) everyone? Absolutely.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is calling for doctors to test most people ages 15 to 64, whether they fall in high-risk groups or not, for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. I see only one thing wrong with this proposal: We should have started doing it years ago. D... |
9526f69dc69a06958e1e94623acf4ac7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-nov-30-la-ol-green-christmas-trees-20121129-story.html | O Tannenbaum, how sustainable are thy branches? | O Tannenbaum, how sustainable are thy branches?
Your recycling bin is filled twice as high as your garbage bin. You buy carbon offsets to make up for the climate havoc caused by your jet-setting ways. You would no more be caught buying non-organic produce than taking it home in a plastic bag from the checkout counter.
... |
fbcbf8a6e5eaf70b6e298aa714d8f212 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-oct-02-la-ol-romney-obama-education-20121002-story.html | What Obama and Romney say about education: Not much | What Obama and Romney say about education: Not much
It’s hard to guess whether the topic of education will come up in this week’s presidential debate, or any of the others. With the economy and the whole 47% debacle on everybody’s mind, there hasn’t been much talk about the public schools, even though they’re at a crit... |
c64982212a294eb3c1e0ad6593dda6f6 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-oct-14-la-oe-myers-israel-academic-freedom-20121014-story.html | In defense of academic freedom | In defense of academic freedom
In August 2009, an Israeli academic and political activist by the name of Neve Gordon published an Op-Ed article in the Los Angeles Times in which he reluctantly called for a gradual international boycott against his own nation. Gordon felt that such dramatic action was required to overco... |
cab165384d9a6544caa954911e59eef1 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-oct-16-la-ol-presidential-debate-two-winner-20121016-story.html | Presidential debate Round 2: Fantastic theater but not decisive politics | Presidential debate Round 2: Fantastic theater but not decisive politics
President Obama’s performance in Tuesday’s second presidential debate was dramatically better than his outing in the first one earlier this month. Unfortunately for Democrats, Obama’s Republican rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, didn’t... |
5d843d0afceb4b92cb82d34bb42e9bda | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-oct-17-la-ol-obama-romney-energy-climate-20121017-story.html | Presidential debate: What climate crisis? A lot of hot air on energy | Presidential debate: What climate crisis? A lot of hot air on energy
Watch news clips of Tuesday night’s presidential debate and chances are that the back-and-forth between President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney on energy policy will loom large -- not because of the policies under discussion, which were a rehas... |
3217489f3eb4c1ebbb954c0babd336bc | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-oct-24-la-ol-okeefe-patrick-moran-voter-fraud-20121024-story.html | A ‘gotcha’ for James O’Keefe, but exactly what did he get? | A ‘gotcha’ for James O’Keefe, but exactly what did he get?
This post has been updated, as indicated below.
Republicans were cheering Wednesday after right-wing hidden-camera provocateur (and would-be sexual prankster) James O’Keefe unveiled his latest expose, this time catching a Democratic congressman’s son advising a... |
1caf65c32546ba3419b43dfdb658925c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-oct-25-la-oe-bordone-debates-as-sport-20121025-story.html | Can we get a political timeout? | Can we get a political timeout?
Reading the newspapers recently, we’ve been struck by how similar the presidential debate commentary has been to commentary about “Monday Night Football.”
After the matchups in this year’s “debate season,” political pundits criticized President Obama’s “prevent defense” and “two-yard run... |
f851e3ab9ff69aa5c9fcd5f89a1379bf | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-oct-25-la-oe-spivak-electoral-college-20121025-story.html | Founders’ choice: the electoral college | Founders’ choice: the electoral college
The electoral college is one of the most controversial and ridiculed parts of the Constitution. It is not just for the obvious reasons — the “wrong winner” elections of 1876, 1888 and 2000. The college has also focused the nation’s attention on a few swing states, allowing candid... |
cddae624b2704bef7399c21544f9e0f0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-oct-28-la-oe-1028-carter-death-penalty-20121028-story.html | Jimmy Carter to California: Yes on Prop. 34 | Jimmy Carter to California: Yes on Prop. 34
The process for administering the death penalty in the United States is broken beyond repair, and it is time to choose a more effective and moral alternative. California voters will have the opportunity to do this on election day.
Although our government has a fundamental res... |
c9f3ecdce6461237f491389d695ec78b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-sep-02-la-oe-lichtenstein-labor-democrats-20120902-story.html | The national, non-union, conventions | The national, non-union, conventions
Thousands of unionists are on their way to the Democratic National Convention that begins Tuesday in Charlotte, N.C. Of the 609 delegates from California, more than a third are labor people.
A Labor Day parade jump-starts the entire conclave, with out-of-state Democrats swelling the... |
b3895925fd147d2dbd770ca79e1b5b81 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-sep-11-la-oe-0910-dimassa-sept.-11-children-history-20120911-story.html | What my kids don’t know about 9/11 | What my kids don’t know about 9/11
My family and I marked the 10th anniversary of 9/11 last year with a ceremony at the Los Angeles Fire Academy. Our daughters marveled at the enormous fire engine ladders, lifted toward the sky to proudly display an American flag.
The older one took pictures with my phone of a twisted ... |
b528ee85742a36921ce4caba6de7b142 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-sep-16-la-oe-amar-constitution-20120916-story.html | The audacity of democracy | The audacity of democracy
Monday marks the 225th anniversary of the turning point of the world — the hinge of modern human history.
On Sept. 16, 1787, kings, czars, sultans, princes, emperors, moguls, feudal lords and tribal chieftains dominated most of Earth’s landmass and population. Wars and famines were commonplace... |
968e79a6b18284f36d84797465bebfe7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-sep-17-la-oe-newton-column-police-use-of-force-20120917-story.html | Newton: For LAPD, a question of force | Newton: For LAPD, a question of force
Back in the early 1990s, when the Los Angeles Police Department was the source of much fear and brutality, about 1% of its arrests involved the use of some force, from a firm grip to a gunshot. Over the last two years, during a period when the LAPD has been justifiably lauded as a ... |
05eadf902882ad6039f59b7e764e4867 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-sep-18-la-oe-crawley-innocence-of-muslims-actor-20120918-story.html | Actor duped into appearing in ‘Innocence of Muslims’ explains | Actor duped into appearing in ‘Innocence of Muslims’ explains
Last week, an acquaintance sent me a link to an article on the Atlantic’s website about “Innocence of Muslims,” the anti-Islam film that has provoked so much violence in the Middle East. To my horror, the story prominently featured a picture of me.
When I wa... |
c8706d79c0288fde6a4b4d944813d056 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-sep-20-la-oe-kinsley-column-romney-47-percent-20120920-story.html | Kinsley: Homer Simpson for president | Kinsley: Homer Simpson for president
Ayn Rand, the favorite author of many geeky teenage boys (who generally grow out of it) and Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (who didn’t), combines an extreme libertarian capitalist message with a high-Soviet-propaganda literary style. This makes parody fairly easy.
... |
307045a38221f5807d260792b584b71a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-sep-27-la-ol-brown-signs-bill-banning-hounding-of-bears-20120926-story.html | Gov. Brown, a softy for bears -- but not for bats | Gov. Brown, a softy for bears -- but not for bats
A smart and humane piece of legislation has been signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown. Senate Bill 1221, by Sen. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance), bans the use of dogs to hound bears and bobcats.
More than half of the hunters who track and kill bears do it without the assistance of... |
f25bf16d4bbd91d49c06d3ff13059c45 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-sep-29-la-le-0929-postscript-endeavour-hollywood-photo-20120929-story.html | A picture-perfect moment over L.A. | A picture-perfect moment over L.A.
The photograph of the space shuttle Endeavour flying past the Hollywood sign during its final flight, which ran in last Saturday’s paper, was perfect — so perfect, in fact, that several readers who tried but failed to capture a similar picture raised doubts about its veracity. (For th... |
3de5abe8eb1534e2531c3fcf2a1b69c9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-sep-30-la-le-0930-sunday-andy-williams-20120930-story.html | Letters: There’s only one Andy Williams | Letters: There’s only one Andy Williams
Re “Pop balladeer of ‘Moon River,’” Obituary, Sept. 27
Upon hearing of the death of singer Andy Williams, I reminisced about my childhood, when “Moon River” was the song.
One of my fondest childhood memories is connected to that song. At the age of 9, I stood before the mirror in... |
19e97155c90a58108845c25257212d71 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-sep-30-la-le-0930-sunday-marijuana-dispensaries-20120930-story.html | Letters: Some clarity on pot policy | Letters: Some clarity on pot policy
Re “In a haze on pot policy,” Editorial, Sept. 27
Sacramento should clarify California’s hazy medical marijuana laws. But the L.A. City Council bears the bulk of the responsibility for the mess locally.
The City Council banned dispensaries after a court decision indicated that issuin... |
8f38ba78f3c9a227e5abb0fde8230a32 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-apr-04-la-ol-rall-why-farmers-need-undocumented-workers-20130403-story.html | Rall: Why farmers need undocumented workers | Rall: Why farmers need undocumented workers
Farmers claim they need to hire undocumented workers under the H-2A visa program because they can’t find enough American applicants. Indeed, few Americans apply and those who do, don’t work out. Why?
ALSO:
The new reality at the border
Photo gallery: Ted Rall cartoons
Goldber... |
781882bec3a69f7787d533ea77866b5e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-apr-12-la-oe-stout-atlanta-teachers-incentives-20130412-story.html | ‘Pay for performance’ pitfalls | ‘Pay for performance’ pitfalls
Last week, 35 public school teachers and administrators indicted for allegedly cheating to raise test scores in an Atlanta school district began turning themselves in to authorities. They may be the tip of the iceberg; a state investigation implicates 178 educators in the scandal.
Were th... |
f8d609011c8f317ec5131cf0f04d351e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-apr-17-la-ol-boston-bombing-surveillance-suspects-20130417-story.html | Surveillance cameras and the Boston Marathon bombing | Surveillance cameras and the Boston Marathon bombing
Investigators in the Boston Marathon bombing closed in on suspects with surprising alacrity, shifting from “few leads” to “possible arrests” in a matter of hours. That’s due in part to the ample resources and expertise that city, state and federal authorities threw a... |
544728310708f365ed1971184f148817 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-apr-23-la-oe-chemerinsky-miranda-rights-for-tsarnaev-20130423-story.html | Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has rights | Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has rights
On Monday morning, Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction. According to a transcript of that proceeding, a magistrate at Tsarnaev’s hospital bedside read him the Miranda warning, informing him of his right to counsel and his right to rem... |
ec5a8859a21710f48f16d93e7e2a18f7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-aug-12-la-ol-vaccine-debate-conspiracy-reality-20130812-story.html | Vaccine debate: The conspiracy theorists vs. reality | Vaccine debate: The conspiracy theorists vs. reality
Fewer parents are vaccinating their children, but still sending them off to school, warns physician and professor Nina Shapiro in our Opinion pages. In it, she argues for “unvaccinated-free zones” to protect all children from disease.
“The law in California mandates ... |
8b746a56c9e948cd5d5738b6b019000f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-aug-28-la-oe-morrison-ratliff-20130828-story.html | Monica Ratliff, the new teacher on board | Monica Ratliff, the new teacher on board
It was a spur-of-the-moment thing that became momentous. Monica Ratliff, outspent by nearly $2 million, improbably won election to the L.A. Unified School District board. She’s a second-generation teacher — her mother teaches Spanish at a charter school in Phoenix — and her new ... |
e9a54c13cf174d5a6c98d3081a680973 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-aug-29-la-ol-abortion-doctors-politics-20130829-story.html | Taking physicians out of the abortion decision | Taking physicians out of the abortion decision
AB 154, a bill in the California Legislature that would allow nurse practitioners, midwives and physician’s assistants to perform some early abortions, won’t be controversial with most supporters of legal abortion. But it severs a connection between abortion rights and the... |
bd8251fcaed6f3bab409ce32c266a8ab | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-dec-19-la-oe-roth-academic-boycott-israel-20131219-story.html | Boycott of Israeli universities: A repugnant attack on academic freedom | Boycott of Israeli universities: A repugnant attack on academic freedom
The American Studies Assn. recently passed a resolution that “endorses and … honor[s] the call of Palestinian civil society for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.” The action was taken, the group explained, because “there is no effective o... |
cc2ad38bebf42b11d00a64496dd50e7a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-feb-06-la-oe-singh-rendition-brennan-20130206-story.html | Let’s lift the veil on rendition | Let’s lift the veil on rendition
When John Brennan, the White House counter-terrorism advisor, appears Thursday at confirmation hearings to become the CIA’s next director, Americans will have a rare opportunity to learn new details about the intelligence agency’s secret rendition and detention program.
Brennan served i... |
b7a034e719b59f9d14944a72d0515589 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-feb-20-la-oe-chick-city-election-20130220-story.html | Election waste in Los Angeles | Election waste in Los Angeles
Next month, Los Angeles voters will go to the polls in a first round of balloting to elect a new mayor and other city officials. The election is taking place just four months after the presidential balloting, which means that Angelenos have been caught in a months-long cycle of nonstop ele... |
9425f1af91a14d4ec248576a2195dbb5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-feb-22-la-ol-westside-trafficlets-fix-it-20130222-story.html | Westside traffic: C’mon, council candidates, let’s fix it | Westside traffic: C’mon, council candidates, let’s fix it
Anyone who lives or works on L.A.'s Westside knows that traffic is an equal-opportunity torturer. So, I was really hoping that the candidates vying for the City Council seat in District 11, which includes this traffic-choked area, would have some clever ideas ab... |
9b91a70aef262359af0ea877ac051329 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jan-01-la-le-0101-tuesday-crayons-guns-20130101-story.html | Letters: Shoot-'em-up at schools? | Letters: Shoot-'em-up at schools?
Re “Crayons, pencil, gun,” Opinion, Dec. 28
Daniel Akst’s satirical look at heaven on Earth as imagined by the National Rifle Assn. leaves out one key issue: Five-year-olds can surely fire a gun and kill someone, but today’s handguns are much too bulky and heavy for anything approachin... |
3ea13dcc22dd495fd40d0f9201ca988f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jan-04-la-oe-saguy-weight-loss-20130104-story.html | Why we diet | Why we diet
If your resolutions for the New Year are typical, they probably include a pledge to lose weight. But if you are like most Americans, any success you have shedding pounds will be short-lived, and you’ll end the year weighing more than you do right now.
So why are Americans obsessed with weight loss? Many peo... |
a864a880030acfa0444e99a4f33ba56f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jan-11-la-oe-ackerman-japan-constitution-20130111-story.html | A militarized Japan? | A militarized Japan?
Japan’s new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has announced plans to revise his country’s famous pacifist constitutional provision, Article 9, which renounces “war as a sovereign right of the nation.”
On the surface, Abe’s proposal may seem merely symbolic, suggesting that he simply wants to add an expli... |
1a1fd46c9f8f276447d0681d05d88afe | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jan-21-la-ol-obama-inaugural-ceremony-eisenhower-20130121-story.html | Inauguration 2013: At Obama’s ceremony, a reminder from Eisenhower | Inauguration 2013: At Obama’s ceremony, a reminder from Eisenhower
The preparations for President Obama’s second inaugural have been accompanied by all the predictable punditry, as well as the heartwarming preparations in the nation’s capital. There are the thrilling flags, the cheerful vendors (sales of trinkets depic... |
c6dc4a9f7640e257b869ecd4dc4f912e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jan-22-la-ol-jill-biden-doctorate-titles-20130122-story.html | Joe Biden’s wife is a ‘Dr.,’ but she doesn’t deliver babies | Joe Biden’s wife is a ‘Dr.,’ but she doesn’t deliver babies
Is Joe Biden married to a physician? You might have gotten that impression while watching television coverage of the inauguration. “Dr.” Jill Biden’s doctorate is in education, yet word obviously has been sent out from the White House that she should be accord... |
5f4fb3a146ebad78a5d792745885ad13 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jan-23-la-ol-another-paul-ryan-budget-20130123-story.html | Paul Ryan’s next budget: More of the same -- a lot more | Paul Ryan’s next budget: More of the same -- a lot more
Now that two months have passed since the 2012 election, what does Rep. Paul Ryan think the voters’ message was?
It wasn’t a rejection of the Romney-Ryan platform or of the “Ryan Budget” that would have turned Medicare into a voucher plan, Ryan told reporters on W... |
326508041731d42d57d3f4846bd406cd | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jul-09-la-le-0709-tuesday-zimmerman-trial-20130710-story.html | Letters: Zimmerman trial involves all of us | Letters: Zimmerman trial involves all of us
Re “One cry, two mothers. Who’s right?,” July 7
The outcome of the George Zimmerman trial is immaterial. It isn’t Zimmerman who’s on trial for teenager Trayvon Martin’s shooting death. It’s all of us, and the culture reflected in what we believe and how we act on those belief... |
900d56c3ed7ba531d9bf3826659c0659 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jul-09-la-ol-san-francisco-asiana-crash-korean-air-20130709-story.html | Could the San Francisco crash have a cultural component? | Could the San Francisco crash have a cultural component?
Why wasn’t there more chatter in the cockpit of the Asiana Airlines plane shortly before its low and ultimately disastrous landing in San Francisco? Investigators are focusing on why the airliner’s approach to the runway was so low; included in that are questions... |
b74fea2b94b1132bede1889260b5e0bf | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jul-12-la-ol-martin-zimmerman-teenagers-20130712-story.html | Was Trayvon Martin a ‘child’ or a ‘youth’? | Was Trayvon Martin a ‘child’ or a ‘youth’?
In rebutting the defense’s closing argument at the George Zimmerman trial, prosecutor John Guy said of Trayvon Martin: “Was that child not in fear when he was running from that defendant? Isn’t that every child’s worst nightmare, to be followed on the way home in the dark by a... |
23b6a480f223873237649f8aeb3b49ff | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jul-14-la-le-0714-sunday-japan-korea-comfort-women-20130714-story.html | Letters: Japan’s World War II denialism | Letters: Japan’s World War II denialism
Re “Glendale enters fight over WW II sex slaves,” July 11
Bravo to the city of Glendale for taking on Japan’s denial of World War II atrocities. Unlike Germany’s admission of its role in the deaths of so many and its efforts to compensate victims, Japan has taken the approach of ... |
c75348719d46ddc29390681c9d1bb853 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jul-18-la-le-0718-thursday-church-abuse-20130718-story.html | Letters: Abuse, the church and the law | Letters: Abuse, the church and the law
Re “Church lobbies to avert abuse suits,” July 16
To the Roman Catholic leadership opposing SB 131, which would give more time to sex-abuse victims in California to file civil lawsuits: Stop shaming us.
The Catholic faithful have watched in horror as the truth of sexual abuse by c... |
42e235d2aed35a43838f9706beffee4d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jul-18-la-le-0718-thursday-telemarketers-20130718-story.html | Letters: Keeping tabs on telemarketers | Letters: Keeping tabs on telemarketers
Re “Telemarketers calling in backup,” Column, July 16
David Lazarus’ piece on unwanted commercial calls really resonated with me, since I’m one of those who has recently experienced a marked increase in such calls in spite of being on the federal government’s Do Not Call Registry.... |
677b0542e5a5b85f1163efd3d05867d4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jul-18-la-le-0718-thursday-zimmerman-trayvon-martin-20130718-story.html | Letters: Zimmerman verdict, and column, resonate | Letters: Zimmerman verdict, and column, resonate
Re “Heartsick and numb over the Zimmerman verdict,” Column, July 16
Congratulations to Sandy Banks for standing her ground. It would have been so much easier to write whatever column she said she had prepared to write. But she didn’t.
Banks says what needs to be said. Re... |
b685637a453b9bb0a6af36e1c272a57c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jul-19-la-oe-gibbons-targeted-killings-drones-20130719-story.html | War on terror: Life, death and drones | War on terror: Life, death and drones
On Friday, a federal judge in Washington will hear a challenge to the Obama administration’s approach to targeted killings. I find myself frustrated by how little progress we’ve made.
In 2004, I represented Guantanamo Bay detainees in the Supreme Court in Rasul vs. Bush, challengin... |
3eadb5ccc63891f7cf7b76c04bbef5f0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jun-02-la-le-0602-sunday-405-freeway-20130602-story.html | Letters: Not a 405 fan | Letters: Not a 405 fan
Re “405 in the rear-view mirror,” Editorial, May 30
The Times calls the years of construction to widen the 405 Freeway a “project to alleviate traffic.” Nothing about this project will alleviate traffic. Adding a carpool lane does not alleviate traffic.
If the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportat... |
fe93543be58f7bb4a5a85ca1bf6680d3 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jun-02-la-le-0602-sunday-fracking-20130602-story.html | Letters: Fracking facts | Letters: Fracking facts
Re “Fracking: How risky?,” Editorial, May 26
The Times described a bill by state Sen. Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) as imposing “significant public disclosure requirements on fracking operations.” Sadly, the disclosure section in Pavely’s bill has a loophole so large that it renders the disclosur... |
982af6f8d295642c0469d1aac70f5d31 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jun-02-la-le-0602-sunday-scalia-20130602-story.html | Letters: Scalia’s invective | Letters: Scalia’s invective
Re “Court lifts time limit on appeals,” May 29
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s intemperate use of invective — “blooper reel,” “feeble” and “bizarre” — against the majority opinion written by a fellow justice (in this case the revered Ruth Bader Ginsburg) continues to astound as he con... |
3ace0bc7b8784e834d6a90438a293d55 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jun-06-la-oe-takeyh-iran-elections-20130606-story.html | Trying too hard to deal with Iran | Trying too hard to deal with Iran
Iran’s presidential election is again inviting speculation about which candidate can nudge the Islamic Republic toward moderation and pragmatism. Such conjectural games miss the point that the theocratic state is defined by an ideology that demonizes the West and relies on conspiracies... |
2541c4e2feae8e995c3ec5ee4cc27331 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jun-09-la-oe-boot-nsa-surveillance-20130609-story.html | Stay calm and let the NSA carry on | Stay calm and let the NSA carry on
After 9/11, there was a widespread expectation of many more terrorist attacks on the United States. So far that hasn’t happened. We haven’t escaped entirely unscathed (see Boston Marathon, bombing of), but on the whole we have been a lot safer than most security experts, including me,... |
5b241766e500c9bfe27e8315d73b38e4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jun-10-la-oe-sessions-immigration-reform-20130610-story.html | Sen. Sessions on immigration bill’s broken promises | Sen. Sessions on immigration bill’s broken promises
The so-called Gang of Eight immigration plan now being considered by the Senate fails to live up to every major promise made by its sponsors. Far from improving the immigration system, their 1,000-page proposal would exacerbate many of its flaws. It would dangerously ... |
25c44c6afd8c896f67c202e93ea1ac49 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jun-22-la-oe-winkler-doma-supreme-court-20130623-story.html | Might Justice Kennedy spring a surprise on DOMA? | Might Justice Kennedy spring a surprise on DOMA?
Despite the conservative tilt of the Roberts Supreme Court, gay rights supporters expect the justices to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act this month. Their hopes are pinned on Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the court’s usual swing vote, who has written two important ... |
8fc64919aa8372ea953659b2be2fca67 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jun-27-la-oe-joyce-doma-supreme-court-ruling-20130627-story.html | DOMA, Prop. 8 and marriage: An anthropologist’s view | DOMA, Prop. 8 and marriage: An anthropologist’s view
Buried in the Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional was a phrase that captures what is at stake in the rapidly changing landscape of marriage rights in the United States: “A dignity and status of great import.”
Debat... |
597b224915facb281a3369556264f69a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-mar-03-la-oe-pope-qualities-20130303-story.html | What we need in a pope | What we need in a pope
On Thursday, Pope Benedict XVI became the first pontiff in nearly 600 years to willingly step down from his position. What kind of man will the cardinals who have gathered in Rome from around the world choose to be his successor? We asked Catholics from a variety of perspectives to write about so... |
22462595e9cca93818aa3a8f93872d91 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-mar-06-la-oe-cagaptay-turkey-identity-20130306-story.html | Turkey at the crossroads | Turkey at the crossroads
Turkey is rising. In the last decade, the country’s economy has nearly trebled in size. Just 10 years ago, the average Turk had one-fifth the income of the average European. Today, Turks are only 30% less wealthy than European Union citizens. Given Europe’s financial doldrums, Turkey could catc... |
3da956629e5f3c3df965435a120575cb | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-mar-06-la-ol-commission-on-political-reform-seeks-bipartisanship-20130305-story.html | A new Commission on Political Reform tries to revive bipartisanship | A new Commission on Political Reform tries to revive bipartisanship
You know there’s something wrong in Congress when something widely viewed as a worst-case scenario happens and yet there’s no rush to try to change course. That’s the case with the “sequester,” the across-the-board reduction in spending that was meant ... |
323940b26bbf045c456211cecd167ca4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-mar-07-la-le-0307-thursday-teachers-tests-20130307-story.html | Letters: Teachers vs. tests | Letters: Teachers vs. tests
Re “School policymakers face a test of their own,” March 4
The controversy over the use of standardized tests for evaluation purposes is the result of the assumption that those tests currently in widespread use are capable of differentiating between effective and ineffective teachers.
Contra... |
80c437be94c9b05f7fc85c7863f32da0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-mar-12-la-oe-lichtenstein-obamacare-20130312-story.html | Obamacare’s other benefit | Obamacare’s other benefit
If it is done right, the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) may well promise uninsured Americans a lot more than cheap, reliable medical care. It can also open the door to the democratic empowerment of millions of poor people, who are often alienated from much of the nation’s civic life, b... |
e3b1ecae2850e27e140cd7f9e40fbcd9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-mar-13-la-ol-san-onofre-edison-blowback-20130313-story.html | Ratepayers can’t afford a grid without San Onofre [Blowback] | Ratepayers can’t afford a grid without San Onofre [Blowback]
Though public debate over the future of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is proper and healthy, it is important that customers understand exactly how their rates are calculated and how utilities’ costs are recovered from long-term investments in crit... |
a903e97692adf45238fe25494c0617fb | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-mar-22-la-oe-gorry-women-earnings-20130322-story.html | The bias against working women | The bias against working women
In proclaiming March as Women’s History Month, President Obama stated that “too many women feel the weight of discrimination on their shoulders.” Liberals often make this claim, citing the fact that women earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men, and call for stronger protection ... |
a8d2e82f9f10a33fed83b5b086eb7d16 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-mar-27-la-le-0327-wednesday-prop8-supreme-court-20130327-story.html | Letters: Gay in America | Letters: Gay in America
Re “For gays, a relative success,” March 26
I expect the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm same-sex marriage rights. But as a gay man in my 50s, will I hear want I really want — an apology from a court that during my lifetime has belittled gay men? Bowers vs. Hardwick comes to mind.
Moreover, will th... |
f2189f6f39eae056d99ce9090eb1585a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-mar-31-la-oe-brown-gray-divorce-20130331-story.html | A ‘gray divorce’ boom | A ‘gray divorce’ boom
Until recently, it would have been fair to say that older people simply did not get divorced. Fewer than 10% of those who got divorced in 1990 were ages 50 or older. Today, 1 in 4 people getting divorced is in this age group.
It turns out that those high-profile breakups of Tipper and Al Gore, and... |
fd3c55014c469406583c581ed2c13490 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-may-15-la-ol-bangladesh-sweat-shops-clothes-20130515-story.html | Sweat-free labels to change the garment trade [Blowback] | Sweat-free labels to change the garment trade [Blowback]
In a May 7 Op-Ed article, Richard Greenwald and Michael Hirsch exhort consumers to support the workers who make our clothes rather than the global apparel industry that exploits them with low wages and unsafe working conditions. Yet exactly how we should do this ... |
ff66f623ac9b15dd9c8ffdeff6c96a7b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-may-19-la-oe-norton-happiness-spending-20130519-story.html | How to buy happiness | How to buy happiness
Imagine that you woke up tomorrow morning to discover $1 million under your mattress. Leaving aside the obvious lumpiness issue, take a moment to think: What would you do with that cash?
If you’re like many people, contemplating your newfound wealth would probably make you think about one thing abo... |
d6a29dcd8afbdbd676aceeeb13530aff | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-may-24-la-oe-redford-bristol-bay-mining-20130524-story.html | Robert Redford’s plea: Save Bristol Bay | Robert Redford’s plea: Save Bristol Bay
Coursing through vast reaches of Alaskan tundra, glacial lakes and emerald forests, six major river systems converge along the rim of the Bering Sea to form the crystalline waters of Bristol Bay, the richest wild salmon grounds in the world.
Yet if three global mining giants get ... |
c817f60acb1f885c3c7fff4a24192203 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-may-29-la-ol-cbo-tax-expenditures-distribution-effects-20130529-story.html | How 10 major tax breaks benefit the rich -- and the poor | How 10 major tax breaks benefit the rich -- and the poor
A new Congressional Budget Office report on the cost and beneficiaries of 10 of the largest federal tax breaks includes one surprising factoid that could make it harder for lawmakers to simplify the tax code by winnowing the thicket of credits, deductions and exe... |
f46daa6240a55c255e9024b68f099073 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-may-29-la-ol-malibu-beach-access-mailbag-20130528-story.html | Malibu residents: Not in my front beach | Malibu residents: Not in my front beach
It isn’t often we hear from those who empathize with Malibu homeowners in the continuing battle for beach access in that oceanfront city. Which isn’t surprising, considering this fight pits moneyed residents against less-well-off beachgoers seeking access to publicly owned land t... |
e69e8ae41f44d49fbdfef88e797830fa | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-nov-06-la-ol-baby-jane-doe-20131106-story.html | DNA could speak for a long-dead, long-unknown L.A. baby | DNA could speak for a long-dead, long-unknown L.A. baby
And here, sorrowfully, she is again. Another dead child, her name unknown for almost three decades.
Now that New York’s cold case of another long-dead, long-unknown child has been solved, Los Angeles is hoping that its anonymous little girl, Baby Jane Doe #61, fou... |
af42495fb8a957dc2b1c22beba7df361 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-oct-14-la-ol-american-apparel-menstruation-tshirt-20131014-story.html | American Apparel’s T-shirt just made for controversy, period | American Apparel’s T-shirt just made for controversy, period
It may be the most famous T-shirt you never saw. We can’t even show it to you here.
But you can see it here.
It’s called “period power,” and its image is a colored line drawing illustrating a woman’s labial area during menstruation.
The shirt became a pop cul... |
52363844df992a9af6ab82edb4f1c7c2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-sep-11-la-ol-ambrosetti-forum-economic-brainstorming-20130911-story.html | The Ambrosetti Forum: Economic brainstorming, Italian-style | The Ambrosetti Forum: Economic brainstorming, Italian-style
It’s been a hangout of intellectuals and politicians for about 450 years, and for the last 40, the gorgeous Villa d’Este on Lake Como in Italy has been the place where other politicians and intellectuals, joined by the modern-day aristocrats -- capitalists -- ... |
34a932490dade408a4ca2df277223e3f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2014-apr-11-la-ol-stephen-colbert-late-night-david-letterman-20140411-story.html | CBS should’ve hired the other ‘Stephen Colbert’ to replace Letterman | CBS should’ve hired the other ‘Stephen Colbert’ to replace Letterman
After much speculation about who would take over for David Letterman on the “Late Show” after he retires next year, CBS announced Thursday that it will be Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert. That’s a disappointing choice. What we need in a late-night ho... |
95802f0a5cea1faeb5210fb927353066 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2014-apr-20-la-oe-mcmanus-column-ukraine-putin-20140420-story.html | What Putin wants, and how he plans to get it | What Putin wants, and how he plans to get it
It was tempting to look at last week’s diplomatic agreement to pull Ukraine back from the brink of war and see the beginning of a grand compromise between Russia and the West.
Tempting, but mistaken.
Vladimir Putin is still winning most of what he wants in Ukraine, and he’s ... |
1cf349255f4439f3d735b51a414cbc67 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2014-jan-08-la-oe-haefele-sheriff-jails-20140108-story.html | What comes after Baca | What comes after Baca
The 18 acting and former deputy sheriffs charged with federal crimes in connection with the running of the Los Angeles County jails have yet to stand trial. But whether or not they are convicted, the arrests make one thing perfectly clear:
As presently structured, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s ... |
cf856661e2451aa58745d8c8ccd0f9db | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2014-mar-02-la-oe-kontorovich-obamacare-legal-standing-20140302-story.html | Legal ‘standing’: Obama’s executive branch escape hatch | Legal ‘standing’: Obama’s executive branch escape hatch
President Obama’s proclaimed strategy to “bypass Congress” — most conspicuously his broad rewriting of the Affordable Care Act — has given unusual prominence to a fairly arcane legal doctrine: standing. Standing is what is preventing a potential blizzard of litiga... |
6753700cb57360e29dfb97722a9cff2d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-oe-dedousis-california-housing-expo-line-nimby-20190701-story.html | Op-Ed: One year ago, L.A. approved an ambitious housing plan. What’s happened since? Nothing | Op-Ed: One year ago, L.A. approved an ambitious housing plan. What’s happened since? Nothing
One year ago this week, Los Angeles took what appeared to be a significant step towards combating its housing affordability crisis. By a unanimous vote, the L.A. City Council approved the Expo Corridor Transit Neighborhood Plan... |
8d3c30b53965e01076a0c19d22393b05 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-oe-valhouli-microunits-affordable-housing-20161024-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: Could micro-apartments solve the affordable housing crisis? | Op-Ed: Could micro-apartments solve the affordable housing crisis?
Cities across America are facing a devastating housing affordability crisis. One obvious potential solution is micro-units. Adding density without affecting the skyline, they offer housing at a lower price point than is usually available in expensive ar... |
27def634a31bdd8b5a54178f0ff78600 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-oe-wilson-texting-while-driving-20180404-story.html | Op-Ed: Texting while driving is as dangerous as driving drunk. We need to treat it accordingly | Op-Ed: Texting while driving is as dangerous as driving drunk. We need to treat it accordingly
Like many pedestrians, I’ve learned to treat Los Angeles streets as an obstacle course of distracted drivers. Rule No. 1: Make sure a vehicle is stopped or braking before stepping off the curb. But even that didn’t save me at... |
aff930e60b273b2a6af9cd4b913a62a4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-ol-bang-koreatown-homeless-20180518-story.html | Opinion: Koreatown needs a homeless shelter. It also needs city officials to learn from the mistakes of the past | Opinion: Koreatown needs a homeless shelter. It also needs city officials to learn from the mistakes of the past
“Dowajuseyo.” In Korean, it means “help me.”
A few months ago, I received a call from an L.A. County mental health facility. They had just taken a frail Korean grandmother into their care, and officials coul... |
aebc68de5b26e5fe2e838c82e5f03b0b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-ol-homeless-measure-h-architecture-nimby-20170310-story.html | Opinion: L.A. finally has the money to fight homelessness. Here’s how architecture can help the cause | Opinion: L.A. finally has the money to fight homelessness. Here’s how architecture can help the cause
Two and a half years ago, my brother Daren died as a result of his struggles with homelessness and schizophrenia. Criminalized for his mental illness for most of his life, he died a preventable death in jail after bein... |
f3aba394ccfd3da349e3d6be40f7ff60 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-ol-measure-h-homeless-skid-row-los-angeles-20170307-story.html | Opinion: If you don’t think L.A. needs Measure H, try volunteering on skid row for a week | Opinion: If you don’t think L.A. needs Measure H, try volunteering on skid row for a week
Every weeknight, a nondenominational group of Angelenos that I’m a member of — called the Monday Night Mission — meets to hand out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to the residents of skid row. Our nightly routine is always the ... |
1690d19e41ce3fefc9c4a21ff5c8964f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-ol-metro-gentrification-20151012-story.html | Opinion: Metro CEO says transit agencies need to care about gentrification | Opinion: Metro CEO says transit agencies need to care about gentrification
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority CEO Phil Washington wants his agency to do more to prepare for gentrification around new transit lines and help prevent the displacement of longtime residents.
Washington, who has been on ... |
c6eaaa99e81be4fa35fbc77dd26d0d11 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-ol-public-transit-freeway-traffic-20151117-story.html | Opinion: The Expo Line hasn’t reduced freeway traffic. So what? | Opinion: The Expo Line hasn’t reduced freeway traffic. So what?
Take note, L.A. political speechwriters and Metro marketing staff: Building public transit may not reduce freeway traffic. You probably want to cite other benefits when urging Angelenos to support a new sales tax to fund rail and bus projects. But, don’t w... |
eb575257790ebed9e48a0097cb5e38c5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/newsletter/2020-04-04/opinion-newsletter-coronavirus-trump-failing-opinion | Trump isn’t getting better at fighting coronavirus | Trump isn’t getting better at fighting coronavirus
Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, April 4, 2020. I hope this morning finds you sedentary and symptom-free. Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion.
I’m not going to lie: This is getting really hard, and not because of weariness from staying put... |
6ad8edce33382638a28eb63f47afe687 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/newsletter/2020-04-11/coronavirus-economy-devastation-opinion-newsletter-opinion | Newsletter: The full fury of the coronavirus economy | Newsletter: The full fury of the coronavirus economy
Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, March 42, 2020 — I mean, April 11, 2020. When you’re not sick and you’ve spent all this time working at home, the gloomy days of April look exactly like the gloomy days of March. On that upbeat note, let’s look bac... |
594b92f293a48a57e5ddaa0e5ae41cb3 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/newsletter/2020-04-25/opinion-newsletter-ca-covid-lockdown-opinion | Newsletter: Time to ‘revise’ California’s lockdown? | Newsletter: Time to ‘revise’ California’s lockdown?
Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, April 25, 2020. Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion.
I’d be lying if I told you this home-confinement-for-the-benefit-of-all business wasn’t starting to grate. Yes, the need physically to distance ourselve... |
40a03f6d1fd59d6403fd251e69b250eb | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/newsletter/2020-05-02/joe-bidens-very-serious-metoo-problem-opinion | Joe Biden’s very serious #MeToo problem | Joe Biden’s very serious #MeToo problem
Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, May 2, 2020. Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion.
Good news, dear readers: We begin today with a topic that has all the trappings of pre-pandemic normality. Problem is, “normal” doesn’t necessarily mean “good” (and in... |
7ec5dbc543bfb0a15b9faa05d73c7f28 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/newsletter/2020-05-09/opinion-newsletter-immigrant-covid-opinion | Newsletter: A migrant’s COVID-19 tale should scare everyone | Newsletter: A migrant’s COVID-19 tale should scare everyone
Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, May 9, 2020. Los Angeles trails (likely where I am as you read this) open today; here are some helpful hints on how to behave so they are not closed again.
Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion.
Mass... |
baae4d9e893f8012d0e9d9cc5b75fe3f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/newsletter/2020-05-23/will-biden-get-away-with-you-aint-black-opinion-newsletter-opinion | Opinion newsletter: Can Biden get away with ‘you ain’t black’? | Opinion newsletter: Can Biden get away with ‘you ain’t black’?
Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, May 23, 2020. Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion.
For those of us who think Donald Trump is the worst possible president to have during a pandemic, Joe Biden would have to work harder to repel ... |
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