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ea33a9507cb8f548b0c2fb4c1c0400dd | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ed-lausd-immigration-services-ayuda-program-20150206-story.html | Editorial: LAUSD’s program to give immigration legal advice is ill-advised | Editorial: LAUSD’s program to give immigration legal advice is ill-advised
Some staff attorneys at the Los Angeles Unified School District have expressed interest in doing pro bono legal work for students who arrived in this country without documentation and on their own, with no adult family living here. Many of those... |
cfad32712ca3de843eee85e0b3d2b395 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0103-olmsted-republican-california-roots-20160103-story.html | Op-Ed: The GOP’s California roots | Op-Ed: The GOP’s California roots
Picture this: Republican leaders and wealthy businessmen argue that the president is a demagogue who panders to the most shiftless members of American society; that he seeks to destroy the Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights; that he wants to incite class warfare, undermine i... |
7a750189f8cfed65ecb5400ead0a9042 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0103-williams-black-victim-self-definition-20160103-story.html | Op-Ed: Thomas Chatterton Williams: My black privilege | Op-Ed: Thomas Chatterton Williams: My black privilege
A couple of years ago, I participated in an Aspen Institute symposium on the state of race. During the roundtable that followed the panels, as I spoke about my experiences growing up black in the 1990s, I was interrupted by a Latino sociologist and former gang membe... |
43dc0c168d75edc862a504a5970db9ad | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0114-gharib-iran-marines-non-crisis-20160114-story.html | Op-Ed: Did Iran ‘toy’ with the U.S.? | Op-Ed: Did Iran ‘toy’ with the U.S.?
Imagine that two Iranian naval vessels drifted into waters controlled by and near a United States naval base. Would the Americans salute the Iranians, thank them for stopping by, then send them on their way? Perhaps offer them a cup of hot chocolate? Apparently American hawks think ... |
bb79672a18bbf1ed7d4ce52cf7c3e1ca | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0120-mcmanus-sanders-clinton-revolution-20160120-column.html | Column: Democrats must decide between a revolutionary and a pragmatist | Column: Democrats must decide between a revolutionary and a pragmatist
As their party’s caucuses and primaries get underway, Democrats face as stark a choice as any in modern times. They must decide between a revolutionary and an incrementalist: Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist who wants to transform the politica... |
58224cefb16d7bb324bfde24612445ed | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0121-biggs-social-security-reform-20160121-story.html | Op-Ed: We can’t afford to expand social security – and we don’t need to | Op-Ed: We can’t afford to expand social security – and we don’t need to
Americans are embracing the idea that we should expand Social Security. A movement started by a few progressive activists spread to opinion makers and ultimately to presidential candidates such as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. But is a broadly... |
baa992732c2ae43d2d03016b697a14db | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0125-williams-single-sex-schools-20160125-story.html | Op-Ed: What’s wrong with single-sex schools? A lot. | Op-Ed: What’s wrong with single-sex schools? A lot.
In her first days on the job, L.A. Unified’s new Superintendent Michelle King suggested that single-sex education might attract more families to the district and improve student achievement. She wouldn’t be the first district leader to vest hope — not to mention publi... |
bd62fb85904011e25f2bed3ac6a8036d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0126-goldberg-conservative-crackup-20160126-column.html | Column: This time, the conservative crackup is real | Column: This time, the conservative crackup is real
I’ve been hearing about the impending “conservative crackup” for nearly 25 years. The term was coined by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., the founder of the American Spectator. He meant that conservatism had lost its philosophical coherence. But the phrase almost instantly beca... |
d41dd595cceb89b2a1ac7efa6b6fc6b9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0129-white-oregon-militia-charges-20160129-story.html | Op-Ed: How the government is charging Ammon Bundy and his self-styled Oregon militia members | Op-Ed: How the government is charging Ammon Bundy and his self-styled Oregon militia members
On an icy highway in rural Oregon on Tuesday afternoon, occupier and protest leader Ammon Bundy finally found the government confrontation that some fear he craved. But rather than a perilous frontal assault on the occupied fed... |
f68fe2cd3541a60c7cacbcda5156f6e0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0207-mcmanus-clinton-poetry-prose-20160207-column.html | Column: Hillary Clinton’s problem: Too much prose. | Column: Hillary Clinton’s problem: Too much prose.
At last week’s Democratic debate in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton repeated her central criticism of her rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders: He’s an unrealistic, ineffective utopian.
“I am not going to make promises I can’t keep,” she said, implying that Sanders had done exact... |
2721da07378f6ab88135fe1538d0b39a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0209-darnovsky-children-dna-from-3-people-20150209-story.html | Op-Ed: Britain is on the brink of a perilous vote for ‘three-person in vitro fertilization’ | Op-Ed: Britain is on the brink of a perilous vote for ‘three-person in vitro fertilization’
Britain is about to become the only country in the world to explicitly allow the inheritable genetic modification of humans. With a vote Feb. 3 in the House of Commons, the country has paved the way for “three-person in vitro fe... |
44bbe05520fc3d998b7be3c3caddbab9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0214-firestein-science-replication-failure-20160214-story.html | Op-Ed: Why failure to replicate findings can actually be good for science | Op-Ed: Why failure to replicate findings can actually be good for science
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool,” physicist Richard Feynman famously told the young scientists graduating from CalTech in 1974. Fully cognizant of this truth, the scientific establi... |
c42d3448ce843ee25b21ba6d7a2e55b7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0215-horgan-terrorist-deradicalization-20150215-story.html | Op-Ed: De-radicalization programs offer hope in countering terrorism | Op-Ed: De-radicalization programs offer hope in countering terrorism
The director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, Nicholas J. Rasmussen, told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday that the number of men and women joining Islamic State is on the rise. Of the 20,000 foreign fighters, he said, a... |
45eb6ea83282359f15a2318bf5f00d62 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0221-bin-talal-global-refugee-crisis-20160221-story.html | Op-Ed: 60 million refugees: a crisis that has outgrown its 65-year-old solution | Op-Ed: 60 million refugees: a crisis that has outgrown its 65-year-old solution
The number of refugees, asylum-seekers and other displaced persons exceeded 60 million globally last year. More than half of the refugees have been uprooted not for months, but for years upon years.
It’s clear that the international legal f... |
440f02a01d76412f83e0cc5277067e26 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0226-kizzia-alaska-reality-tv-20150226-story.html | Op-Ed: The reality is there’s plenty of fake TV shows in Alaska | Op-Ed: The reality is there’s plenty of fake TV shows in Alaska
Is this mortifying era of northern overexposure ever going to end?
Here in Alaska, TV crews have been everywhere the last few years, clutching scripts for “unscripted” shows and handing out confidentiality agreements, asking us to play along. A friend in m... |
1fbd990a9b80cc1d96a93e036a819ab7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0228-fish-oscars-diversity-20160228-story.html | Op-Ed: Hollywood isn’t in the morality business | Op-Ed: Hollywood isn’t in the morality business
The controversy surrounding the absence of African American Oscar nominees has now been given a statistical baseline in the form of a report issued by the Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California.
The figures in the report back up th... |
b80d6cf07cee7e3dec8928c470bb36c6 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0229-owens-silencers-20160229-story.html | Op-Ed: Gun silencers are useful, not scary | Op-Ed: Gun silencers are useful, not scary
More than 100 years ago, inventor Hiram Percy Maxim created two almost identical products to accomplish the same goal in two very different industries. The divergent ways we treat those products today reveals the irrationality driving our national firearms debate.
One of Maxim... |
8e0c2cd52191c25d495d8987f629cf4c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0303-balmer-trump-evangelicals-20160303-story.html | Op-Ed: Evangelicals’ support of Trump shouldn’t come as a surprise | Op-Ed: Evangelicals’ support of Trump shouldn’t come as a surprise
As pundits scratch their heads over evangelical support for Donald Trump — he pulls a greater percentage of evangelical voters than any other candidate — they overlook one important fact: Evangelicals are secular now. Over the last several decades, they... |
15b938e44d99afc699f38d27539ccb2c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0308-krotoszynski-selma-march-protest-doctrine-20150308-story.html | Op-Ed: Could a Selma-like protest happen today? Probably not | Op-Ed: Could a Selma-like protest happen today? Probably not
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches of 1965, we will replay the inspirational words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., recount the courage of the marchers in the face of police brutality and recall the shock to the conscience that led to the pa... |
5f3350a4453832f9d9b36b738fbb5b5c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0310-collinge-student-debt-bankruptcy-20160310-story.html | Op-Ed: A right to debt relief from crushing student loans | Op-Ed: A right to debt relief from crushing student loans
Something unusual happened in late February. Commentators on the right and left, liberal Thom Hartmann and conservative Ike Brannon, published essays on the same day, Feb. 22, saying the same thing: Americans should have the right to discharge their student debt... |
676cecb021ec0a374c39c043530e2242 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0310-levinson-iran-hostage-20140310-story.html | My dad, held in Iran | My dad, held in Iran
Seven years ago Sunday, my father, Robert Levinson, was taken hostage while visiting Kish Island, Iran. He is currently the longest-held hostage in U.S. history, and will likely be marking his 66th birthday Monday in captivity, thousands of miles from his wife, seven children and four grandchildren... |
230dba8a125f9eb5efe245eeaa077944 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0311-presidents-drug-war-fail-20160311-story.html | Op-Ed: Three leaders from Latin America call for decriminalizing drug use | Op-Ed: Three leaders from Latin America call for decriminalizing drug use
Outdated drug policies around the world have resulted in soaring drug-related violence, overstretched criminal justice systems, runaway corruption and mangled democratic institutions. After reviewing the evidence, consulting drug policy experts a... |
5ea8d0af426bb502c28026e98f297562 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0313-darden-daughter-oj-trial-20160310-story.html | Op-Ed: Growing up Darden and dealing with the racial backlash from the O.J. trial | Op-Ed: Growing up Darden and dealing with the racial backlash from the O.J. trial
“Are you going to watch this O.J. show?” I asked my father over drinks.
“Nope.”
“Why?” I asked, though I should have known what he would answer.
“I lived it.”
I was 15 years old in 1994 when my father, Christopher Darden, joined the prose... |
16c672d936dd191bd174f1328eb44d29 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0313-males-teen-smoking-20160313-story.html | Op-Ed: Why a ‘smoking age’ of 21 is a bad idea | Op-Ed: Why a ‘smoking age’ of 21 is a bad idea
When California lawmakers voted last week to raise the smoking age from 18 to 21, the debate featured optimistic rhetoric that fines and bans would sharply reduce the number of young adults buying or using tobacco.
This seemingly common-sense approach, however, doesn’t wor... |
3ddaa697018f1b7caa6fc6bf4e4cf4b8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0322-mcmeekin-middle-east-sykes-picot-boundaries-20150322-story.html | Op-Ed: In the Mideast, borders have always been drawn in blood | Op-Ed: In the Mideast, borders have always been drawn in blood
With a massive invasion by U.S. ground troops ruled out — for now — the debate in Washington over what to do about Islamic State militants has shifted into the realm of diplomacy and “soft power.”
President Obama, in his recent op-ed announcing a summit tar... |
9e23d94a78b84e3cf1b54afd850a0698 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0323-pearl-anti-zionism-20160323-story.html | Op-Ed: Anti-Zionism is a hateful ideology. It has no place at UC | Op-Ed: Anti-Zionism is a hateful ideology. It has no place at UC
Last week, a UC Regents working group released a proposed set of Principles Against Intolerance, created in response to a series of anti-Semitic incidents on UC campuses. On March 23, the Regents will vote on whether to officially adopt those principles. ... |
021fb3aeb41ee111bfd805482979de8f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0330-mcmanus-clinton-email-prosecution-20160330-column.html | Column: Hillary Clinton didn’t break the law | Column: Hillary Clinton didn’t break the law
It may not sound like it at first, but the FBI’s decision to move fast on its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email practices is good news for the Democratic front-runner.
As my colleague Del Quentin Wilber reported this week, federal prosecutors have begun setting up for... |
b2782189b4ed06fcec21fdfd39f0bfb4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0404-strauss-body-cameras-for-everyone-20160404-story.html | Op-Ed: Forget cops. Should doctors and teachers wear body cameras? | Op-Ed: Forget cops. Should doctors and teachers wear body cameras?
Body cameras have become the solution of the day for stomping out discriminatory behavior against minorities by police officers. Cameras provide a neutral record of events, so we have a better idea what happened during an encounter. Some research even s... |
3e017203e79bc0c1f69fc36098ffbdac | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0410-mcmanus-bernie-miracle-20160410-column.html | Column: It will take a miracle for Bernie Sanders to beat Hillary Clinton. And that’s OK | Column: It will take a miracle for Bernie Sanders to beat Hillary Clinton. And that’s OK
Bernie Sanders can still win the Democratic presidential nomination — but it’s going to take a miracle. Actually, several miracles. He’ll need to win the primary next week in New York, where polls show him running well behind Hilla... |
053b77a5d00faae1fdb17b2edbcc4c1b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0412-miller-gmo-labels-unscientific-20160412-story.html | Op-Ed: GMO food labels are meaningless | Op-Ed: GMO food labels are meaningless
The push for labels on “genetically modi-fied” or engineered food is one of those social movements that sounds unimpeachable — like “Free the Whales” or “Save the Planet.”
What could be wrong with empowering consumers with knowledge about their food?
Plenty.
Many of the nation’s l... |
c3fcfe78b720be7f08d704f1247c0257 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0417-kushner-sengwer-20150416-story.html | Op-Ed: The World Bank’s broken promise to ‘do no harm’ | Op-Ed: The World Bank’s broken promise to ‘do no harm’
Seven years ago, the World Bank set out to help preserve Kenya’s Embobut Forest for future generations. As part of the Natural Resource Management Project, it spent millions to mitigate erosion, prevent landslides and improve the administration of water resources.
... |
7e40819bc0c548febf13aa7742ccb73d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0423-goldberg-normalcy-fascism-20130423-column.html | Goldberg: ‘Right wing’ doesn’t equal ‘terrorist’ | Goldberg: ‘Right wing’ doesn’t equal ‘terrorist’
“If history were to repeat itself,” warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, “and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on the battlefields a... |
c1ad21335750e71dc9b2503614c2c836 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0425-hasen-money-in-politics-20160425-story.html | Op-Ed: Sanders calls Clinton’s fundraising ‘obscene,’ but it’s more nuanced -- influence isn’t corruption | Op-Ed: Sanders calls Clinton’s fundraising ‘obscene,’ but it’s more nuanced -- influence isn’t corruption
Despite Bernie Sanders’ repeated accusations, there’s no real evidence that Hillary Clinton has been corrupted by large campaign contributions. But that’s not to say donors haven’t influenced her thinking and prior... |
7d48489ef2e669f02c0edf0dd9c762c8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0428-upadhyay-nepal-earthquake-20150427-story.html | Op-Ed: Nepal earthquake: We had been warned | Op-Ed: Nepal earthquake: We had been warned
Images coming out of Nepal’s devastating earthquake on Saturday reminded me of another earthquake of similar magnitude that occurred 81 years ago. That earthquake of 1934, or nabbey salko bhuichalo, as it was referred to throughout my childhood in Katmandu, had acquired an ai... |
94ca7d091c843ffc622ab55550a36935 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0513-yaffe-airbnb-ordinance-la-20160513-story.html | Op-Ed: Activists say Airbnb drives up rents. But is that actually true? L.A. needs to find out | Op-Ed: Activists say Airbnb drives up rents. But is that actually true? L.A. needs to find out
The city of Los Angeles is considering an ordinance that would force thousands of small businesses to close their doors. These businesses currently provide a valuable service to customers and much-needed income to their owner... |
cf20151520f98cd403868fea2aae2ea6 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0515-corwin-grim-sleeper-other-homicides-20160515-story.html | Op-Ed: Relative to ordinary homicides in South L.A., the Grim Sleeper case got a lot of attention | Op-Ed: Relative to ordinary homicides in South L.A., the Grim Sleeper case got a lot of attention
The detective is frustrated. Twenty-two poor African Americans have been murdered and dumped in abandoned houses. Police officials don’t seem to care. Reporters don’t either. In order to obtain funding so he can properly i... |
4e27ed23399661309f3180cfad349ae3 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0517-nader-longshot-candidates-20150515-story.html | Op-Ed: Ralph Nader: Why run for president if you don’t have a real chance? | Op-Ed: Ralph Nader: Why run for president if you don’t have a real chance?
The 2016 presidential election is attracting an unusually large number of hopefuls. The Republicans will probably field more than a dozen candidates and the Democrats, as many as five. Presently, very few of these supposed contenders have a rea... |
e2d5f742435f1270282a911972331771 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0525-morrison-sentencing-shame-judges-20140525-column.html | Column: Is public shaming fair punishment? | Column: Is public shaming fair punishment?
You play the judge: How would you sentence a man who spent 15 years picking on his neighbor and her handicapped children?
A Cleveland judge sentenced just such a man, Edmond Aviv, to jail, community service, anger management and mental health counseling — and to spend five ho... |
e21fbff9c8860a3373ea32ae0930f313 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0529-abdo-martin-nsa-20150529-story.html | Op-Ed: Choosing between Big Brother and the Bill of Rights | Op-Ed: Choosing between Big Brother and the Bill of Rights
Around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, there was a seismic shift in the U.S. Congress. As the Senate deadlocked over what to do about several expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, it became clear that political momentum had moved away from surveillance and secrecy toward... |
d7fb2e415d57d9f3b4b4c01d60e96075 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0602-greenhouse-gawker-union-20150602-story.html | Op-Ed: Will Gawker go union? | Op-Ed: Will Gawker go union?
As union membership declines, even modest unionization efforts take on symbolic importance. Each case seems like a sign of things to come. Success or failure at the individual level seems to portend success or failure for the broader movement.
That’s why supporters and opponents of organize... |
8f557c0b0ca6a09fbc697954bc1ecdde | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0608-godsey-altschool-teachers-20150608-story.html | Op-Ed: Traditional teaching faces a cyberthreat from school model | Op-Ed: Traditional teaching faces a cyberthreat from school model
There’s a new network of K-8 private schools called AltSchool, based in San Francisco and soon expanding to Brooklyn, N.Y., and Palo Alto. From that tiny amount of information — the name, the locations — you can probably guess that AltSchool is trying to... |
0ef78033be200647624fe6e27014b0bc | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0628-mcmanus-terrorism-france-20150628-column.html | Column: French worries over Islamic State point to Syria | Column: French worries over Islamic State point to Syria
Six months after the Jan. 7 attack on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, Paris remains a city on guard. Black-uniformed military police of the Republican Security Companies patrol tourist sites with submachine guns. Museums, concert halls and even bookstores fun... |
01414c16b7f094b6740be8d9ee8b112a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0708-goldberg-hollywood-ideology-storytellin-20140708-column.html | Column: Hollywood, where liberal values reign -- except at the box office | Column: Hollywood, where liberal values reign -- except at the box office
In the film “Obvious Child” Jenny Slate plays Donna Stern, a stand-up comedian who specializes in making jokes about her private parts, with the occasional foray into fart humor. She is about to go onstage. Her friend offers her some encourageme... |
8a5ccd1c1bfd3aa6eb85e2a7cd807191 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0717-obernolte-gas-tax-20150717-story.html | Op-Ed: Why are California’s roads so bad? | Op-Ed: Why are California’s roads so bad?
California motorists pay some of the highest gasoline taxes in the nation. On average, states impose a combination of taxes and fees that amount to about 30 cents a gallon, whereas California’s gas tax is an astonishing 42 cents a gallon. On top of that, according to a report r... |
cb4937552ed2c2814d44a512202d0668 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0723-bouie-affirmative-fair-housing-20150723-story.html | Op-Ed: America’s fair housing backlash | Op-Ed: America’s fair housing backlash
If you’ve read conservative blogs or magazines in the last month, you’ve probably seen something like this headline from Townhall — “HUD’s ‘Disparate Impact’ War on Suburban America” — or this one from National Review — “Attention America’s Suburbs: You Have Just Been Annexed.”
Be... |
295d9798aa5b8a6e1a595aff9f878d30 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0809-mcmanus-isis-winning-20150809-column.html | Column: Is Obama’s strategy against Islamic State working? | Column: Is Obama’s strategy against Islamic State working?
One year ago this weekend, President Obama launched airstrikes in Iraq to prevent the insurgent armies of Islamic State from advancing to the gates of Baghdad and conquering the country. Within weeks, American aircraft began bombing Islamic State’s bases in nei... |
5dd22e0c00020daaa246f9c172a8ff42 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0811-goldberg-bernie-sanders-democrats-20150811-column.html | Column: GOP’s Trump problem will fade, but Democrats’ Bernie Sanders troubles are just beginning | Column: GOP’s Trump problem will fade, but Democrats’ Bernie Sanders troubles are just beginning
“We are trying to be reasonable,” an organizer for Bernie Sanders’ Seattle rally said.
The black female protesters who stormed the stage became enraged. “We aren’t reasonable!” they shouted back. “If you do not listen to [u... |
7f3f39611ae90544a3bad63779311aba | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0818-duncan-stem-education-20150818-story.html | Op-Ed: Arne Duncan: Where California schools need to put their money | Op-Ed: Arne Duncan: Where California schools need to put their money
On the Westside of Los Angeles, there’s a school where eighth-graders code and build websites, develop entrepreneurial ventures and use gaming software to design solutions for saving local endangered species. At the Incubator School, teachers leverage... |
be9213cf4221f396d794cada47295d78 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0821-marcotte-abortion-coercion-20150821-story.html | Op-Ed: Abortion and the myth of ‘protecting’ women | Op-Ed: Abortion and the myth of ‘protecting’ women
It’s been a month since the antiabortion group Center for Medical Progress released an undercover video purporting to prove that Planned Parenthood is illegally selling fetal parts. The charge was complete nonsense, and mainstream media sources quickly debunked it. Pla... |
321c02f042fa3b689c83d1031343b5bf | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0823-nagoski-pink-viagra-20150823-story.html | Op-Ed: The real problem with ‘pink Viagra’ | Op-Ed: The real problem with ‘pink Viagra’
The drug has many names: flibanserin, Addyi, Ectris, Girosa or, colloquially, “pink Viagra.” Whatever you want to call the long-in-the-making libido pill for women, it recently gained FDA approval despite “serious, serious safety concerns” and benefits that are “modest, maybe ... |
939e808f7b111e7f93361672fb3519b8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0829-wright-syria-consequences-20130829-story.html | The risk of taking on Syria | The risk of taking on Syria
So the U.S. launches a military strike. Then what?
As the Obama administration and the U.S. military plot military action against Syria, they should be spending just as much time — and arguably more — considering what happens next. Once Washington crosses the threshold of action, there’s no ... |
0eb07c8e9107069976b68b4865432844 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0830-glassner-schapiro-square-generation-20150830-story.html | Op-Ed: Baby boomers, don’t be so quick to mock colleges on ‘trigger warnings’ and ‘micro-aggressions’ | Op-Ed: Baby boomers, don’t be so quick to mock colleges on ‘trigger warnings’ and ‘micro-aggressions’
Everyone knows that kids find their elders deeply uncool. We’ll reveal our own uncoolness by citing John Sebastian’s 1969 song “Younger Generation” to prove the point. “Why must every generation think their folks are s... |
1c18bcefe2db7de4301c5a8723f8450b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0901-bisharatandwhitbeck-iran-foreign-20150831-story.html | Op-Ed: No to the Iran deal means no to U.S. credibility | Op-Ed: No to the Iran deal means no to U.S. credibility
A striking feature of the debate raging among American politicians over the Iran nuclear agreement is the virtual absence of references to international law. Republican presidential candidates compete as to who among them, if elected president, would be quickest t... |
cae670e2e0489ef521b4b80f69b9d41c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0922-goldberg-fiorina-planned-parenthood-20150922-column.html | Column: It’s not Fiorina who is wrong in the Planned Parenthood fight | Column: It’s not Fiorina who is wrong in the Planned Parenthood fight
“Anyone who has watched this videotape, I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’ This ... |
4a4274bc6fbd4ad4c72bd3ed96ab8091 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1014-wilson-rich-urban-beekeeping-la-20151014-story.html | Op-Ed: Why urban beekeeping is right for Los Angeles | Op-Ed: Why urban beekeeping is right for Los Angeles
On June 10, 1879, Los Angeles lawmakers banned beekeeping within city limits. According to Mark Vallianatos, who teaches environmental policy at Occidental College, their rationale was frankly preposterous. Having noted the affinity between bees and fruit trees, they... |
821441aec694f6bceb0bd79bfb96ab23 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1018-ferguson-kissinger-obama-20151018-story.html | Op-Ed: Niall Ferguson: Think Kissinger was the heartless grandmaster of realpolitik? What about Obama? | Op-Ed: Niall Ferguson: Think Kissinger was the heartless grandmaster of realpolitik? What about Obama?
Most Americans still think of Barack Obama as a foreign policy idealist. That is certainly how he presents himself: Just replay the tape of his recent speech to the United Nations General Assembly.
Some argue, he said... |
842d678b446beb12eed9d67c0ef0db1a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1024-morrison-kmiec-20121024-column.html | Douglas Kmiec on keeping the faith | Douglas Kmiec on keeping the faith
Talk about tests of faith. Douglas Kmiec is an influential Roman Catholic scholar, a veteran of Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department and a Pepperdine University constitutional law professor. What he’s gone through in the last handful of years, he sums up pretty well with the title of hi... |
20680220137ac41fca4b7e5722319612 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1028-cook-soda-tax-poor-people-20141028-story.html | Op-Ed: Big Soda’s false populism | Op-Ed: Big Soda’s false populism
In its $10.5-million spending binge to defeat soda tax measures in Berkeley and San Francisco in November — and to stem the nationwide push to hold Big Soda accountable for epidemic diseases related to sugar overconsumption — the soda industry has positioned itself as a populist defend... |
22335c2dc050f0ddf11e3b21b34016ca | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1028-mcmanus-rubio-bush-20151028-column.html | Column: The GOP has two contests going on | Column: The GOP has two contests going on
To most of us, the Republican presidential campaign looks like an exercise in untrammeled chaos. Ben Carson is surging. Donald Trump is raging. Jeb Bush is floundering. And a long list of others, from Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz to Carly Fiorina, are jostling for position in the p... |
854ddebf7f52e2b703ab5e1bf70eab5a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1109-castaneda-marijuana-mexico-20151109-story.html | Op-Ed: If Mexico legalizes marijuana, what will the U.S. do? | Op-Ed: If Mexico legalizes marijuana, what will the U.S. do?
Mexico may soon enter an elite club composed of Holland, Portugal, Uruguay and Colorado, Oregon and Washington state: It’s on the verge of excluding marijuana from the destructive war on drugs. But will the United States stand in its way?
On Nov. 4, Mexico’s ... |
5e945d93d2113dfb6ef1539c1fb14dd1 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1119-friedman-injustice-multitasking-20151119-story.html | Op-Ed: Can we care about terrorism and campus activism at the same time? | Op-Ed: Can we care about terrorism and campus activism at the same time?
After an international tragedy like the terrorist acts in Paris last week, we perform a relatively new social media ritual: We attempt to collectively rank the importance of various injustices. Some of us are outraged that attacks in Western Euro... |
28cf2e6cc1c445e768963e66827cae38 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1123-carr-afghanistan-invasion-france-20151123-story.html | Op-Ed: If France wants to succeed against Islamic State, it should study the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan | Op-Ed: If France wants to succeed against Islamic State, it should study the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
The wisdom of the U.S. decision to keep troops in Afghanistan on a semi-permanent basis will be long debated. What is beyond debate is the brilliance of the post-9/11 invasion, which holds lessons for the French pe... |
b6cfcbae5f20fa79157ab08bb79357c9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1204-lemmon-women-combat-20151204-story.html | Op-Ed: Women in combat? They’ve already been serving on the front lines, with heroism | Op-Ed: Women in combat? They’ve already been serving on the front lines, with heroism
“The issue of women in combat per se was no longer a question,” said Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter on Thursday as he declared that all jobs in the United States military would at last be open to all Americans. “It was a reality, ... |
ab8f72085712722238f5365460896c26 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1209-goldberg-uva-rape-false-allegations-scottsboro-20141209-column.html | Column: Using allegations of rape in a grab for power | Column: Using allegations of rape in a grab for power
Nine males were accused of being part of a heinous rape. The alleged injustice fomented a mob mentality. An enraged community wanted to skip any talk of a serious investigation, never mind a trial, and go straight to the punishment.
I’m not talking about the now-dis... |
0cb00f6088b0d028185763e061f94a80 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1215-digital-war-on-isis-20151215-story.html | Op-Ed: How a ‘digital surge’ can help beat Islamic State | Op-Ed: How a ‘digital surge’ can help beat Islamic State
Islamic State is the first terrorist group to control territory in both the digital and physical worlds. It has been particularly effective at using its digital operations to enable its physical ones — most notably, recruiting fighters online to perpetuate attack... |
8131e25b33f550ef2a10702f06995a9f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1215-wyden-backdoor-for-cell-phones-20141215-story.html | Op-Ed: With hackers running rampant, why would we poke holes in data security? | Op-Ed: With hackers running rampant, why would we poke holes in data security?
Hardly a week goes by without a new report of some massive data theft that has put financial information, trade secrets or government records into the hands of computer hackers.
The best defense against these attacks is clear: strong data e... |
c5214d20e2897dee2fb9729d7dd03e18 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1219-sobel-calif-drought-hurricane-sandy-20141219-story.html | Op-Ed: Flood, drought risks must be managed, with or without climate change | Op-Ed: Flood, drought risks must be managed, with or without climate change
In one case a major metropolis was flooded within hours, leaving thousands homeless, millions without power, transportation and businesses shut down, and a mass human crisis. In the other case, three years of sunshine and blue skies have left w... |
40141c04056e91254b05511f636a46ad | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1221-yetiv-oil-price-explainer-20151221-story.html | Op-Ed: There is a downside to cheap oil. Really. | Op-Ed: There is a downside to cheap oil. Really.
Oil prices have fallen dramatically to the mid-$30s on the New York Mercantile Exchange from more than $105 per barrel in 2014. Such extraordinarily low prices are affecting global stock markets, big oil exporters and consumers worldwide.
How can we explain this crash an... |
0d1ca7763f6173bf6937cb52cd05ddc1 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-225-gurwitch-jewish-ezra-20150225-story.html | Op-Ed: Part ‘none,’ part Jewish, all teenager -- and leery about anti-Semitism in Europe | Op-Ed: Part ‘none,’ part Jewish, all teenager -- and leery about anti-Semitism in Europe
When the birth announcement of Athene, daughter of my Parisian college boyfriend, arrived by e-mail, I excitedly showed la bébé's picture to my 16-year-old. My husband and I are perilously close to becoming empty nesters, which is ... |
c59fefc5520e55bdfc6aa5321df5978c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-abrahms-glaser-isis-assad-20171210-story.html?_amp=true | The pundits were wrong about Assad and the Islamic State. As usual, they’re not willing to admit it | The pundits were wrong about Assad and the Islamic State. As usual, they’re not willing to admit it
The Islamic State is a shadow of its former self. In 2014, the extremist group seemed to make substantial inroads in achieving its stated goal of a caliphate. It boasted tens of thousands of fighters and territorial cont... |
5d519a2490744481984bad61c84b240f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-abrams-good-business-models-for-education-20170108-story.html | Op-Ed: Forget charter schools and vouchers; here are five business ideas school reformers should adopt | Op-Ed: Forget charter schools and vouchers; here are five business ideas school reformers should adopt
Donald Trump never tires of reminding us that he is a businessman, and in Betsy DeVos, he has nominated a secretary of Education who endorses a business model for improving elementary and secondary schooling. The prob... |
e6fb63ac67c6a1bbff741c10dcfc3fda | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ackerman-cia-spies-on-senate-20140807-story.html | Op-Ed: CIA vs. the Senate: The Constitution demands action | Op-Ed: CIA vs. the Senate: The Constitution demands action
CIA spying on the Senate is the constitutional equivalent of the Watergate break-in. In both cases, the executive branch attacked the very foundations of our system of checks and balances.
President Obama is not President Nixon. He hasn’t been implicated perso... |
76395527e46660a5d1883cebb3ce474f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ackerman-mexico-in-crisis-20140521-story.html | Op-Ed: The U.S. is solidly behind Mexico’s president, but his own people aren’t. Now what? | Op-Ed: The U.S. is solidly behind Mexico’s president, but his own people aren’t. Now what?
After 17 months in office, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s bubble has burst, but no one seems to have noticed. U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry should use his visit to Mexico City this week to radically rethink policy... |
79b33aac2195442fe845f0cf26c51de2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-adv-frenkel-why-study-math-20140302-story.html | How our 1,000-year-old math curriculum cheats America’s kids | How our 1,000-year-old math curriculum cheats America’s kids
Imagine you had to take an art class in which you were taught how to paint a fence or a wall, but you were never shown the paintings of the great masters, and you weren’t even told that such paintings existed. Pretty soon you’d be asking, why study art?
That’... |
d19d10660c4c0c7bc064f473cb247eda | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-allen-liberals-are-the-new-manicheans-20170127-story.html | Op-Ed: When it comes to Trump, liberals can’t see shades of gray | Op-Ed: When it comes to Trump, liberals can’t see shades of gray
“Manichaeans” was a favorite derogatory way to describe GOP President George. W. Bush and his Iraq war supporters in the mid-2000s. The term referred to the followers of Mani, a third-century Persian prophet who founded a highly successful religious movem... |
f6c45742c535664cd82358e65d3056d9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-almond-bumper-sticker-politics-20161002-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: The trouble with our bumper sticker politics | Op-Ed: The trouble with our bumper sticker politics
There is something quintessentially American about political bumper stickers. They are blunt, dogmatic, occasionally witty and always provocative. If that’s not an apt description of the zeitgeist, I don’t know what is.
Unfortunately, in the midst of an election seaso... |
ed579def56257d6ea821a5affecbaa18 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-altenbernd-deverell-st-francis-dam-memorial-20181116-story.html | Op-Ed: With disasters rocking the state, California needs to remember the St. Francis Dam failure | Op-Ed: With disasters rocking the state, California needs to remember the St. Francis Dam failure
There is a quiet campaign underway in northern L.A. County that deserves the support of people across California.
The Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society is pushing for the site of the St. Francis Dam to be declared a ... |
98b3f8c0951250afd539198fa44f9593 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-anderson-roller-ben-carson-confirmation-as-hud-secretary-20170112-story.html | Op-Ed: Ben Carson should approach HUD the way he did medicine: First do no harm | Op-Ed: Ben Carson should approach HUD the way he did medicine: First do no harm
On Thursday, the Senate holds hearings to confirm Ben Carson as the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s new secretary.
As a physician, Carson had to abide by the Hippocratic Oath of ethics. The oath calls on doctors to remember th... |
bb56c7f2173a1c1f8a11b4a46b23cd5d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-antitrust-att-time-warner-20170209-story.html | Op-Ed: In the age of Uber and Snapchat, antitrust law needs an update | Op-Ed: In the age of Uber and Snapchat, antitrust law needs an update
Consumer watchdog groups have denounced the pending AT&T and Time Warner merger, claiming that it would put too much power in the hands of too few.
They needn’t worry. Powerful hands are losing their grip. The gig economy, low financing rates and spe... |
e9a8ef77e2569e518e62ef29fe2ae18f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arellano-california-20170103-story.html?_amp=true | No, California isn’t ‘done’ | No, California isn’t ‘done’
Hola. My name is Gustavo Arellano, and I’m not supposed to love California.
In the past decade, as I’ve adulted my way into my late 30s, I’ve read hundreds of articles and Facebook status updates that proclaim the state as “done,” that the “best of us” decamped to the suburbs of Texas, Arizo... |
40b652cc74610c883e711d55140868ce | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arellano-newsom-20181111-story.html | Column: Gavin Newsom is ready to battle Trump, but can he unite California first? | Column: Gavin Newsom is ready to battle Trump, but can he unite California first?
In the biblical epic that is California’s fight against Donald Trump, you can’t find two holy warriors more dissimilar than Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom.
The outgoing governor is our Moses, the grump who led us through the desert that was... |
d26246bc9e4c73dea68ac000ebbb605e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arellano-orange-county-homeless-20170721-story.html | Op-Ed: The upside of visible homelessness in Orange County: We can’t pretend we’re better than everyone | Op-Ed: The upside of visible homelessness in Orange County: We can’t pretend we’re better than everyone
Whenever I see homeless people somewhere in Orange County where I’ve never noticed them before — say, inside a tent at the Tustin Civic Center, begging for money off the 5 Freeway in Mission Viejo or washing themselv... |
2fda86fb0c43566ab264ad1568982e9c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arellano-san-ysidro-20181128-story.html | Column: We can’t let Trump close California’s gateway with Mexico | Column: We can’t let Trump close California’s gateway with Mexico
The brewing crisis at the San Ysidro Port of Entry on the U.S.-Mexico border is yet another deliberate insult to California by President Trump.
Let’s recap (so far). First he deployed a show of force better suited to “Call of Duty” than the busiest borde... |
20f228ba5c462811847333d86b9ebe56 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arellano-trump-visit-california-20180312-story.html | Column: His Royal Trumpness visits Southern California, but not Orange County? | Column: His Royal Trumpness visits Southern California, but not Orange County?
So President Trump will visit our state this week. Ain’t that a hoot? He’s already declared war on California’s middle class with a punitive tax code, sicced Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions on our pro-marijuana and -immigrant policies, and insulted... |
4611fd74aa59af611402e0eb845a0b06 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arnold-climate-change-resilience-20180527-story.html | Op-Ed: Dear media: We need more stories about resilience to climate change | Op-Ed: Dear media: We need more stories about resilience to climate change
Overwhelmed by climate change? It’s not your fault.
Actually, you are to blame for climate change. But it’s the media’s fault for making you feel completely hopeless about it.
That includes me. As a correspondent for NPR 10 years ago, I did a st... |
adfb560d5ba6381f1418d72477867e78 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arnson-summit-of-the-americas-20150409-story.html | Op-Ed: Will the U.S. botch its chances at the Summit of the Americas? | Op-Ed: Will the U.S. botch its chances at the Summit of the Americas?
This week’s Summit of the Americas in Panama will mark a historic occasion. For the first time since the summit process began in 1994, Cuba will be included. The normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba announced in December has ... |
76b4548324ab2cb11c49078a422aa924 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arrigo-psychologists-apa-report-20150729-story.html | Op-Ed: How the American Psychological Assn. lost its way | Op-Ed: How the American Psychological Assn. lost its way
The American Psychological Assn. is in crisis.
Last December, a Senate Intelligence Committee report laid bare the extensive involvement of individual psychologists in the CIA’s black-site torture program. Then, in early July, a devastating independent report by ... |
4eafa44f9ac3b7dcb66eabcdbe0f830d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ashford-allies-against-islamic-state-20150402-story.html | Op-Ed: In fight against Islamic State, U.S. would be better off without its Arab allies | Op-Ed: In fight against Islamic State, U.S. would be better off without its Arab allies
U.S. officials continue to insist that our Middle Eastern allies are crucial to the fight against Islamic State and to other Middle Eastern conflicts. But are they? To judge by the chaos their help has created in Syria, we’d be bett... |
f4e1093bd9ed0406f8e2360d5d4b3596 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-austin-separate-bedrooms-20180326-story.html | Op-Ed: My wife and I sleep in separate bedrooms. Our marriage (and sex life) have never been better | Op-Ed: My wife and I sleep in separate bedrooms. Our marriage (and sex life) have never been better
Keeping a marriage strong takes work. My wife and I do all the things that are commonly prescribed: we eat dinner together, go on weekly date nights, and take trips without the kids. We also do one thing that might raise... |
c1aad683f55e668068047e9d4815ab5c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bacevich-egypt-military-policy-20130820-story.html | Egypt in the rearview mirror | Egypt in the rearview mirror
When it comes to Egypt, the U.S. has little leverage and therefore no real options. That’s according to the prevailing wisdom, at least.
Yet this analysis — endlessly reiterated in mainstream commentary — is misleading. The absence of leverage does not preclude options. It certainly does no... |
9f4a1408e7b95fdbfbbd91c1edffdf5b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-balmer-evangelical-trump-racism-20170823-story.html | Op-Ed: Under Trump, evangelicals show their true racist colors | Op-Ed: Under Trump, evangelicals show their true racist colors
The statistics tell one story: 81% of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump. The deafening silence from leaders of the religious right in the wake of the neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville, Va., points to an even larger one, which places racism at the... |
c4a75620797370245e0233c8998ff060 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-baltzan-eu-tariff-hypocrisy-20180726-story.html | Op-Ed: Europeans are free traders now? That’s rich | Op-Ed: Europeans are free traders now? That’s rich
After President Trump met with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday, tensions between the two economic powerhouses abated, as the United States and the European Union announced an agreement to move forward on trade negotiations.
But all is not... |
47026ca495aef3ddd7507781784d83b4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-banks-20190202-northam-photograph-20190202-story.html | Op-Ed: Stop with the shifting stories, Gov. Northam, and explain yourself | Op-Ed: Stop with the shifting stories, Gov. Northam, and explain yourself
Virginia’s Democratic governor is in hot water, and it’s not just over the racist photo recently discovered in his 1984 medical school yearbook. His handling of the scandal has been almost as disappointing.
The photo, first unveiled by a conserva... |
3a24ac92788edbcc4f35e0a7137b71c2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bass-bundy-trials-20170402-story.html | Op-Ed: The Bundy family and followers are on trial again. Win or lose in court, theirs is a lost cause | Op-Ed: The Bundy family and followers are on trial again. Win or lose in court, theirs is a lost cause
Most people in the West understand that when we behold the horizon, when we walk toward it, what we see and the land we walk on often belongs to all of us. A majority of Westerners want to keep public land public, and... |
1d5a570333714ec5e8102accecd9f047 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bergen-children-swearing-20160918-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: Go ahead, curse in front of your kids | Op-Ed: Go ahead, curse in front of your kids
I always seasoned my vocabulary with as many four-letter words as 50-cent ones, at least until my first child was born two years ago. That’s when I found myself — and I’m almost embarrassed to admit it — watching my language. Something deep in my subconscious told me that pr... |
3d78a5c4ad42acb848df6a06fb67ffd5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-berlatsky-doctor-strange-east-journey-20161103-story.html | Op-Ed: ‘Doctor Strange’ and the tiresome, stereotypical journey east to discover magical Asian awesomeness | Op-Ed: ‘Doctor Strange’ and the tiresome, stereotypical journey east to discover magical Asian awesomeness
“After Western medicine failed me, I went east,” Benedict Cumberbatch’s character declares portentously in the new Marvel film “Doctor Strange.” His love interest, Dr. Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams)... |
8fcfaae76f9fcaa7a871e73a44b5bd22 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-berlatsky-revolution-wont-be-hollywoodized-20180525-story.html | Op-Ed: Hollywood isn’t on the side of the resistance | Op-Ed: Hollywood isn’t on the side of the resistance
With one of the most corrupt, autocratic and cruel administrations in memory ensconced in Washington, and with the chances of dislodging it in 2020 hardly a sure thing, you’d think Hollywood would be celebrating the virtues of defiance and rebellion. “Solo: A Star Wa... |
247261954dd93b02a433c14cd680da31 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-blankenhorn-abraham-lincoln-20190212-story.html | Op-Ed: Today’s leaders should ask themselves: What would Lincoln do? | Op-Ed: Today’s leaders should ask themselves: What would Lincoln do?
Abraham Lincoln, who was born 210 years ago today, was president during an era even more rancorous and polarized than our own. Yet he managed to navigate it – not in a way that pleased everyone or made him popular, but rather by keeping the good of th... |
961be3300df0c4f9b9f6f590d91700bb | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-block-qatar-terrorism-syria-20170609-story.html | Op-Ed: Qatar is a financier of terrorism. Why does the U.S. tolerate it? | Op-Ed: Qatar is a financier of terrorism. Why does the U.S. tolerate it?
Five Arab countries cut ties to Qatar on Monday, deepening a rift among Persian Gulf nations over that country’s support for radical Islamist groups. The United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Yemen all announced they would withdra... |
a44fb762a6a1bcfdd231fbb5c4fe809e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bogert-central-park-jogger-media-20190531-story.html | Op-Ed: How the media help drive harsh criminal justice policies | Op-Ed: How the media help drive harsh criminal justice policies
On April 21, 1989, the New York Daily News ran a story about a young investment banker who was badly beaten and repeatedly raped while jogging in Central Park. Its headline, “Wolf Pack’s Prey,” described how the woman was “left for dead by a wolf pack of m... |
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