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46e04a15f0c976e0139f82d89254a0ae | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-helfand-dodge-nuclear-weapon-question-20160923-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: Should we let an unstable person have control of the nuclear arsenal? No, but that’s not the right question | Op-Ed: Should we let an unstable person have control of the nuclear arsenal? No, but that’s not the right question
A growing chorus of politicians and national security experts have questioned whether it would be safe to have Donald Trump’s finger on the nuclear button. But are they asking the right question?
In an ope... |
df53877cb538b3b75df9b2c5ec3a545f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-helfand-supreme-court-religious-liberty-musl-20141003-story.html | Op-Ed: Is a prisoner’s beard dangerous? | Op-Ed: Is a prisoner’s beard dangerous?
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Holt vs. Hobbs, another big-ticket case that tests the limits of religious liberty when it comes into conflict with government regulation. The petitioner — Gregory Holt — is a prison inmate, housed by the Arkansas Departme... |
884754bbec10b037940b80767f9c54bb | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-henry-kissinger-olympics-world-20190627-story.html?hootPostID=19178e9be0c052ef6386243bbb9040a3 | Op-Ed: Henry Kissinger: For a more peaceful vision of the future, look to the Olympics | Op-Ed: Henry Kissinger: For a more peaceful vision of the future, look to the Olympics
Humanity has never lived under a single unified world order. When it has been maintained at all, order has been achieved only within the shifting bounds of limited regions, and even then there have been inevitable tensions and clashe... |
75e96e96e4ca538c171b02d8b3d6d103 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hernandez-the-case-against-latinx-20171217-story.html | Op-Ed: The case against ‘Latinx’ | Op-Ed: The case against ‘Latinx’
This year, Fusion and MiTú each posted videos earnestly explaining to their millennial viewers why “Latinx” is the new term everyone should use to refer to people of Latin American descent.
The argument is that “Latinx” is a less determinist, more inclusive form of the words it replaces... |
770a8044d295fed7949e6d9dc73a1795 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hill-smartphone-addiction-disability-20170424-story.html | Op-Ed: I’m not ‘addicted’ to my smartphone. I depend on it to survive | Op-Ed: I’m not ‘addicted’ to my smartphone. I depend on it to survive
It has become commonplace to the point of cliché for pundits to explain in worried tones that smartphones can be addictive.
In a recent “60 Minutes” segment, Anderson Cooper interviewed Tristan Harris, a former product manager at Google, who compared... |
9edf7a94d2841447460550df18dbd32d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hollis-brusky-citizens-united-consequences-20150109-story.html | Op-Ed: The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision continues to echo | Op-Ed: The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision continues to echo
Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission turns 5 this month, but the damage from the Supreme Court’s revolutionary ruling on campaign finance is just beginning to be felt.
Scholars and pundits will undoubtedly mark the anniversary with comment... |
235dca29b789fd8d3a72c795f8e28f72 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hoyos-roosevelt-high-blowouts-preservation-20180504-story.html | Op-Ed: Roosevelt High School’s historic R Building should be preserved, not demolished | Op-Ed: Roosevelt High School’s historic R Building should be preserved, not demolished
Beginning on March 1, 1968, thousands of students walked out of five predominantly Latino high schools on the Eastside of Los Angeles. The students were protesting substandard facilities, a lack of books recognizing Latino culture, o... |
d6713144dcc86996d6dad6ccb742c823 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hughes-bryant-gun-violence-research-20180226-story.html | Op-Ed: We have all the data we need: Stronger gun laws would save lives | Op-Ed: We have all the data we need: Stronger gun laws would save lives
The day after the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., House Speaker Paul Ryan sounded a cautious note: “I think as public policy makers, we don’t just knee-jerk before we even have all of the facts and the data.”
I... |
5c259e6b9a902dca02b99fce1d4242a7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hughes-stop-isis-recruit-radicalization-20160517-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: Islamic State is successfully radicalizing Americans. How do we stop them? | Op-Ed: Islamic State is successfully radicalizing Americans. How do we stop them?
As one father told me the story of his daughter’s radicalization, his every word was heavy with regret. He should have intervened earlier, he said, when he first noticed she was hiding her online conversations from him. When his daughter ... |
4852cc1792ccafbd693d859eb516a3d3 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-jackson-anti-semitism-awareness-act-20161206-story.html | Op-Ed: The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act would damage free speech rights on campus | Op-Ed: The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act would damage free speech rights on campus
Since Donald Trump’s election, a wave of hate attacks have targeted Jews, Muslims and other vulnerable groups.
What’s the government doing about it? Nothing.
But the U.S. Senate did pass a bill last week called the Anti-Semitism Awareness ... |
5ffb7e7b7728358f4e45e397020c055d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-janis-high-speed-rail-20140623-story.html | Op-Ed: High-speed job creation for California | Op-Ed: High-speed job creation for California
During the recent election season, the California high-speed rail project came under attack once again, with candidates vowing to defund it. “Let’s focus on real job creation,” said GOP gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari in one television commercial, as he smashed a toy... |
d5daf83f103312c70a5574ac8e0d96be | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kaplan-academic-journals-research-access-university-california-elsevier-20190409-story.html?fbclid=IwAR2MhD6KGN3utllOd9ArXFWf7ELk0LZ08f-qj59tPpGNRTXloh2IIttQPnI | Op-Ed: Why you should care about the raging battle for free access to research findings | Op-Ed: Why you should care about the raging battle for free access to research findings
Last month, the University of California reached an impasse with one of the world’s biggest publishers of academic journals over whether the company’s publications would be included in the university’s digital library.
The universit... |
b0ec503728d794c95cc16931363c34b8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kaplan-voting-while-black-20181106-story.html | Op-Ed: Black people will stand in line to vote today, but where has voting gotten us? | Op-Ed: Black people will stand in line to vote today, but where has voting gotten us?
Facing the most consequential national election in modern American history, I find myself at once fortified and nearly paralyzed.
Fortified because I didn’t even have to think about what I’m going to do: vote. Voting — more specifical... |
08358b8b6172207977e7c2f0533c34ea | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-katz-basketball-referees-ncaa-march-madness-20190322-story.html | Op-Ed: Basketball referees are easy scapegoats for the NCAA’s refusal to embrace technology | Op-Ed: Basketball referees are easy scapegoats for the NCAA’s refusal to embrace technology
As March Madness begins in earnest, so too will debates and controversies over calls made by the stressed-out referees who officiate the NCAA tournament.
Weighing in on the topic, Hank Nichols, the former head of NCAA basketball... |
7e5a2a7c526e4ebd29d7b11404362bf2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-katz-immigrant-concentration-camps-20190609-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3Tb0lei399DtGJf70Q89xWKvDgLDUS-ftAipZ_ywVDO70Agj1ar3qPXDY | Op-Ed: Call immigrant detention centers what they really are: concentration camps | Op-Ed: Call immigrant detention centers what they really are: concentration camps
If you were paying close attention last week, you might have spotted a pattern in the news. Peeking out from behind the breathless coverage of the Trump family’s tuxedoed trip to London was a spate of deaths of immigrants in U.S. custody:... |
59a2ced14892227de2b6d5c94841fe54 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kaufman-disposable-fashion-20171229-story.html?fbclid=IwAR2aZZhj5SHl0VtiTMEVi1f8NcKEWRBUtTwIYfb0aXgEszYqs48HJ2mr9Xc | Op-Ed: If you’re a fast fashion addict, you’re taxing the planet | Op-Ed: If you’re a fast fashion addict, you’re taxing the planet
I never thought I’d have an epiphany in my closet. But after the shameful discovery that I was repeating the same five items while ignoring the rest of my mammoth wardrobe, I challenged myself to wear everything I own (with a few exceptions like cocktail ... |
17674dc6c3f7f39999e4a48273c443d5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kendall-bill-clinton-and-me-too-20181104-story.html | Op-Ed: Where is Bill Clinton’s #MeToo reckoning? | Op-Ed: Where is Bill Clinton’s #MeToo reckoning?
A certain gracefully aging man is earning millions from various media ventures. His most recent book, a thriller co-written with the publishing titan James Patterson, spent weeks atop the New York Times bestseller list over the summer. More than a million copies were sol... |
b9b68949a34d270b7439d5b6059866e4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-khanna-net-neutrality-20180813-story.html | Op-Ed: California is trying to pass a net neutrality bill — and broadband providers are trying to gut it | Op-Ed: California is trying to pass a net neutrality bill — and broadband providers are trying to gut it
Political divisions may be fierce, but there is at least one issue that most Americans agree on: net neutrality.
That’s the simple idea that internet service providers should not control or influence what we do onli... |
4efe733917089eeb185aeac1fc0696ab | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kirchick-israel-palestinian-conflict-20190524-story.html | Op-Ed: The world faces many tragedies. The lack of a Palestinian state ranks low on the list | Op-Ed: The world faces many tragedies. The lack of a Palestinian state ranks low on the list
Few regional conflicts attract more diplomatic energy, media coverage and attention on the part of human rights activists than that between Israel and the Palestinians. From President Donald Trump, who tantalizingly promises a ... |
0f8461147267d5088c9ee3d0050086a8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kirchick-scientology-exemption-20171116-story.html | Op-Ed: In the world of religious tax exemptions, does Scientology measure up? | Op-Ed: In the world of religious tax exemptions, does Scientology measure up?
In addition to being megalomaniac leaders of cult-like movements, the late L. Ron Hubbard and Donald Trump have shared an aversion to paying taxes. The founder of Scientology waged a ruthless battle to win a religious tax exemption from the I... |
c77d606cc2bb9efa3b913b1387d1afe6 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kirp-community-college-funding-20180622-story.html | Op-Ed: If community colleges want more funding, they have to graduate more students | Op-Ed: If community colleges want more funding, they have to graduate more students
California’s community colleges have done a bang-up job of getting students in the door, but a terrible job of making sure they graduate.
Six years after enrolling, less than half of 2.2 million students had earned an associate’s degree... |
c951fa9ec67abb88a7250df4d0b103b8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-klaas-dirsus-leave-victory-in-britain-20160623-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: The isolationist catastrophe of ‘Brexit’ | Op-Ed: The isolationist catastrophe of ‘Brexit’
On Thursday British voters willfully walked off a cliff when they decided to leave the European Union. The “Brexit” victory is a defeat for Britain, Europe and the global economy.
Tens of millions of Britons voted for isolation — to go it alone — rather than for cooperati... |
fe8aab9da7236df5432e06d46d74a8a9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-klein-pantsuit-nation-20161226-story.html | Op-Ed: Pantsuit Nation had the potential to mobilize millions. Instead, it’s just a feel-good commodity | Op-Ed: Pantsuit Nation had the potential to mobilize millions. Instead, it’s just a feel-good commodity
Imagine what 4 million impassioned Hillary Clinton followers, acting in concert, could accomplish over the next four years. Targeted boycotts — 4 million people have a lot of buying power, and many of them represent ... |
221ca6611623bc882116f1b3fc3c362f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-klein-teacher-tenure-vergara-20160906-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: Why firing bad teachers isn’t nearly as important as creating good ones | Op-Ed: Why firing bad teachers isn’t nearly as important as creating good ones
Vergara vs. California, the lawsuit that sought to overthrow teacher tenure and seniority rules, was itself undone in late August. The California Supreme Court let stand a lower court finding that teachers’ job protections aren’t necessarily... |
f9166b7b8b799125af8d0b09816e1c60 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-knox-trump-loyalty-20170504-story.html?_amp=true | Amanda Knox: Donald Trump supported me when I was wrongly accused of murder. What do I owe him? | Amanda Knox: Donald Trump supported me when I was wrongly accused of murder. What do I owe him?
Donald Trump supported me during the worst crisis and most vulnerable moment in my life, defending my innocence when I was on trial in Italy for murder. He is now the president of the United States and reportedly “very upset... |
3dafc3628cb787054c4df562945cc894 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-koh-wadhia-deportations-20180630-story.html | Op-Ed: Deport, not court? The U.S. is already doing that | Op-Ed: Deport, not court? The U.S. is already doing that
Many Americans were outraged by President Trump’s recent tweet saying that people seeking to enter the United States should be deported “with no Judges or Court Cases.”
But the practice of deporting immigrants without seeing a courtroom is already the rule, not a... |
1b757918d4528021779c19d29195bb37 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kominski-how-california-can-survive-trumpcare-20161117-story.html | Op-Ed: How California can survive Trumpcare | Op-Ed: How California can survive Trumpcare
No one knows exactly what Donald Trump’s pledge to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act means. The hints, however, are troubling. No state has embraced the ACA — Obamacare — more enthusiastically and successfully than California. And no state has more to lose with Tru... |
20a0cd3b568a15f8961b12e6bcea74e4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-koss-aphid-genocide-20180617-story.html | Op-Ed: Slaughter of the aphids, a garden wars story | Op-Ed: Slaughter of the aphids, a garden wars story
Each morning I putter in my vegetable garden, barefoot, in my nightgown. I pick up a stray twig, pull a weed or two. My tomatoes and potatoes, I imagine, reach toward me as they do toward the sun. When I wave the garden hose, hummingbirds dart though the spray like ch... |
fa455ff2e4e248099bd6b75420797882 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-koss-automatic-bill-payment-20190611-story.html | Op-Ed: Is autopay a punishment or a benign paperless future? | Op-Ed: Is autopay a punishment or a benign paperless future?
One day a week or so ago I woke to the frantic blinking of the bedside clock. No matter how many times I switched on the coffee pot or pantry light, there was no electricity. My phone was charged so I went on the neighborhood website to see if power was out i... |
102a3e5a719a521c36e6b6187752155f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-koss-facebook-anniversary-20140216-story.html | Facebook and the simple pleasures of procrastination | Facebook and the simple pleasures of procrastination
The 10th birthday of Facebook last week caused me to recall my miserable pre-Facebook existence, when methods of procrastination were sorely limited.
As a stay-at-home writer, phone calls were unruly and hard to control. What if the other person wanted to tell a long... |
f4e016f8afed606b629595c6744f0e11 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kousser-voter-turnout-20141027-story.html | Op-Ed: Want to increase voter turnout? Here’s how. | Op-Ed: Want to increase voter turnout? Here’s how.
California’s June primary, which set the electoral stage for the November election, will go down in history for one reason: its abysmally low level of voter turnout.
Only a quarter of California’s registered voters cast a ballot, the lowest turnout rate in a primary th... |
465c3337f644827a4aefd1300432a411 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-krikorian-gerrik-thomas-20160204-story.html | Op-Ed: Just another South L.A. killing? | Op-Ed: Just another South L.A. killing?
It was the fourth time in two days last week that a young black person was killed by other blacks in South Los Angeles. It didn’t make much of a news splash. Like the 16-year-old girl and 20-year-old man at 81st and Avalon, like the 17-year-old boy at 83rd and Main Street, Gerrik... |
45e8a322a1baf43052577b962c0076c6 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-krist-aimee-semple-mcpherson-20180624-story.html | Op-Ed: Aimee Semple McPherson: The L.A. evangelist who built the world’s first megachurch | Op-Ed: Aimee Semple McPherson: The L.A. evangelist who built the world’s first megachurch
In the early 20th century, Los Angeles made its explosive leap from a largely agricultural town of some 100,000 people to a major metropolis more than 10 times that size. It enticed new residents with open space, mild weather and ... |
07334e023f09614d953b604eeaab3e83 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kristian-afghanistan-war-withdrawal-20190307-story.html | Op-Ed: End Washington’s stagnant Afghanistan war | Op-Ed: End Washington’s stagnant Afghanistan war
“America would be more secure and stronger economically if we recognized that we have largely achieved our objectives in Afghanistan and moved aggressively to bring our troops and tax dollars home,” Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) write in an op-ed article... |
60206fa287f8d3ce760213bea5ce1672 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-krotoszynski-trump-tax-returns-california-state-laws-20190509-story.html | Op-Ed: States could succeed in getting Trump’s tax returns where Congress has failed | Op-Ed: States could succeed in getting Trump’s tax returns where Congress has failed
To date, efforts to obtain President Trump’s personal income tax returns have gone nowhere. It is clear the president will never release them voluntarily, and the Treasury Department has stonewalled the House Ways and Means Committee’s... |
92ddf08938a5069e0fa0a3cad13d1556 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kugelman-india-election-20140519-story.html | Op-Ed: It’s time for the U.S. to reset relations with India | Op-Ed: It’s time for the U.S. to reset relations with India
The outcome of India’s national election — a resounding triumph for the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party — has put the United States in an awkward position.
The BJP’s Narendra Modi will soon be India’s prime minister. In 2005, Washington revoked his U.S. visa... |
d68ad608ef7fc45b964666eecd538a37 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kurlansky-haiti-dominican-republic-citizensh-20131110-story.html | Op-Ed: In the Dominican Republic, suddenly stateless | Op-Ed: In the Dominican Republic, suddenly stateless
A recent ruling by the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic to strip away the citizenship of several generations of Dominicans leaves no doubt that the nation has not left its history of abuse and racism behind.
According to the decision, Dominicans born af... |
15b499db29059e18184a39c99d6be7d4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-laan-tiefer-pink-viagra-20141114-story.html | Op-Ed: The sham drug idea of the year: ‘pink Viagra’ | Op-Ed: The sham drug idea of the year: ‘pink Viagra’
Many women report losing their desire for sex, some temporarily, some permanently. Is this a relationship problem, a normal aspect of life changes or, as the pharmaceutical industry maintains, an “unmet medical need”? That was the question under consideration for two... |
c5f31eaec930587a99593642c18e3ede | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-larsson-child-separation-20180622-story.html | Op-Ed: I was separated from my parents 50 years ago. The trauma has marked the rest of my life | Op-Ed: I was separated from my parents 50 years ago. The trauma has marked the rest of my life
Over 50 years ago, when I was a 14-month-old toddler, I was involuntarily separated from my parents. I was so young that I have no memories of those 11 days in a children’s hospital. Deep down, however, I carry the ineradicab... |
6bfdcecd753c2c79ffa0bee355304019 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-lee-disability-costco-shooting-20190619-story.html | Op-Ed: It’s not just the Costco shooting. Disabled people are often killed by police | Op-Ed: It’s not just the Costco shooting. Disabled people are often killed by police
My 19-year-old son has the face of an angel, but he lacks the cognitive ability, if lost, to ask for directions home. I worry about him continually: How will he navigate the world? Where will he live? Will he have a happy, meaningful l... |
8e04a282148b80f56a0f29d83429d741 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-lee-ramakrishnan-asian-american-prestige-20180327-story.html | Op-Ed: Asian Americans think an elite college degree will shelter them from discrimination. It won’t | Op-Ed: Asian Americans think an elite college degree will shelter them from discrimination. It won’t
College admissions season is here. In the coming weeks, millions of high school seniors will receive letters of acceptance or rejection. They will then have a few more weeks to choose which school to attend.
The college... |
b1010a258f63ed04ff681114eadc1819 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-leslie-regenerative-farming-california-20190513-story.html | Op-Ed: California is making a weak effort to turn agriculture into a climate change fix | Op-Ed: California is making a weak effort to turn agriculture into a climate change fix
Agriculture generates 9% of California’s greenhouse gas emissions, which makes it the state’s fourth-largest emitter, after transportation, industry and buildings. But agriculture — often seen as an enemy of the environment — is the... |
0690b49778ad738e05315e19e738feee | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-leslie-salmon-hatcheries-klamath-river-20190613-story.html | Op-Ed: To save Klamath River salmon, shut down the hatcheries | Op-Ed: To save Klamath River salmon, shut down the hatcheries
In 2021, four large dams on the Klamath River are due to be demolished, in part to revive the river and Klamath Basin salmon. But unless salmon hatchery operations are discontinued soon afterward on the river, the effort will founder. Allowing hatchery salmo... |
350cd9e0393f18a6a5d4c97b9fe5e10e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-levitt-death-spiral-20161212-story.html | Op-Ed: Repeal of Obamacare could cause the ‘death spiral’ critics warned about | Op-Ed: Repeal of Obamacare could cause the ‘death spiral’ critics warned about
Ever since the Affordable Care Act became law, critics have warned that it would cause a “death spiral” in the individual health insurance market. Those fears were unfounded, but if Republicans in Congress repeal the ACA without ... |
c04074ef622fc71414cecb6ae806b378 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-lichtenstein-civil-rights-fight-obamacare-20130908-story.html | Obamacare: New fight, old tactics | Obamacare: New fight, old tactics
Last month, Americans took pride in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Unfortunately, we are also revisiting a far darker episode in our history, a civil rights-era conflict that tells us much about the hurdles facing President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, the... |
6fab556c56de1adeb590ed61329d6603 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-linden-koko-washoe-animal-sentience-20180708-story.html | Op-Ed: How Koko the gorilla and a chimp named Washoe changed the way humans view their relationship with animals | Op-Ed: How Koko the gorilla and a chimp named Washoe changed the way humans view their relationship with animals
Koko the gorilla died on June 19. She and a female chimpanzee named Washoe (who died in 2007) played an outsized role in changing how we view animal intelligence. Their accomplishments inaugurated deep soul-... |
09d8495c8518701870a9e2f329488149 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-litman-census-question-supreme-court-trump-republican-20190603-story.html | Op-Ed: It’s obvious the census question is partisan, but the Supreme Court still won’t care | Op-Ed: It’s obvious the census question is partisan, but the Supreme Court still won’t care
It is rare that plaintiffs challenging a government policy can locate smoking-gun evidence regarding the illicit motives of government decision makers. Yet for the second year in a row at the Supreme Court, a group of plaintiffs... |
956999f5187593c399d73bd625230401 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-litman-greenberg-manafort-mueller-indictment-20171030-story.html | Op-Ed: Can Trump pardon his way out of trouble after the Manafort indictment? | Op-Ed: Can Trump pardon his way out of trouble after the Manafort indictment?
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has now drawn first blood, and it’s a deep cut. The indictment of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, along with Manafort’s longtime associate Rick Gates, on multiple charges of conspiracy, tax fraud an... |
7eb435358bd5787272e6617f838feea0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-litman-the-special-counselor-is-already-getting-the-truth-out-20170714-story.html?_amp=true | Why did Don Jr.'s emails surface? Because Robert Mueller is already changing Washington’s lying ways | Why did Don Jr.'s emails surface? Because Robert Mueller is already changing Washington’s lying ways
For more than a year, the most senior officials in the Trump administration have adamantly, even scornfully, denied that there was any contact between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. The bombshell report ... |
724f51fa9c1162cc8277fec1fc4cefce | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-liu-asian-american-lawyers-20170723-story.html | Op-Ed: There are more Asian American lawyers than ever — but not in the top ranks | Op-Ed: There are more Asian American lawyers than ever — but not in the top ranks
Two years ago, an unusual matter came before my court: a petition for posthumous bar admission brought by the descendants of Hong Yen Chang, a native of China. Chang came to America in 1872 at age 13. He graduated from the Phillips Academ... |
70a6529a9e30e7265199c2d3549bb700 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-louganis-olympics-lbgt-russia-20140205-story.html | Greg Louganis on the Sochi Games: The best response to repression is engagement | Greg Louganis on the Sochi Games: The best response to repression is engagement
I opposed boycotting the Sochi Winter Olympic Games to protest the crackdown on LGBT rights in Russia. In part, that was because I didn’t want to victimize athletes who had worked so hard to make the American team. But it was also because I... |
2c80c2f4df97108ad0462988dbf81f8a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-macadams-los-angeles-river-20131027-story.html | A river -- again -- in Los Angeles | A river -- again -- in Los Angeles
In the late 1930s, in response to a pair of deadly floods, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors called in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to control the unruly Los Angeles River, which had, over millenniums, shifted its course innumerable times on its way to the sea.
Taming L.... |
028ab86012ac0e77073d2ad98061e228 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-madden-suicide-20180609-story.html | Op-Ed: When every suicide in the news is a reminder of a death in your family | Op-Ed: When every suicide in the news is a reminder of a death in your family
The news of Kate Spade’s suicide and now, in the same tragic week, Anthony Bourdain’s, made me think of Jeanne and Michael again, which is what always happens.
I was 14 when my mother’s sister, my Aunt Jeanne, walked into the ocean in West Pa... |
823b456b69fedd8d7ffc56d31cc24706 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-maher-wikipedia-gender-bias-20181018-story.html | Op-Ed: Wikipedia mirrors the world’s gender biases, it doesn’t cause them | Op-Ed: Wikipedia mirrors the world’s gender biases, it doesn’t cause them
When Donna Strickland won the Nobel Prize this month, she became only the third woman in history to receive the award in physics. An optical physicist at the University of Waterloo, Strickland is brilliant, accomplished and inspiring. To use Wiki... |
a36471b558f7eddefd18806c44638e9b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-males-california-crime-immigration-20170221-story.html | Op-Ed: California to Trump: What ‘American carnage’? Things are far safer here than in the rest of America | Op-Ed: California to Trump: What ‘American carnage’? Things are far safer here than in the rest of America
President Trump has cast California as “out of control” because of proposed legislation that would make the entire state a sanctuary for illegal immigrants, who, he says, “breed crime.” But in reality, as Californ... |
963f3cc947a3b2b91ec95d2850dca335 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-marche-fatherhood-cure-for-patriarchy-20180617-story.html | Op-Ed: Fatherhood is the cure for patriarchy | Op-Ed: Fatherhood is the cure for patriarchy
Over the last 50 years, fathers have become vastly more engaged and active with their children. By one estimate, fathers today spend seven times more time with their kids than in the 1970s.
This shift in male domesticity has occurred without any formal movement behind it. Th... |
e5e7bee5bdd574deb961e4bca41ecdfe | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-marcil-johnson-whats-right-with-america-20181104-story.html | Op-Ed: Things could be worse. A lot worse | Op-Ed: Things could be worse. A lot worse
Has there ever been a time when America was more divided? Probably yes. Maybe several times, even. Still, it’s hard to shake the feeling that things are terribly, terribly wrong and won’t get better. And when that feeling comes, we like to take stock and count our blessings.
In... |
665820abe851d612f6062377e253ab26 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-marko-fish-mislabeling-20141209-story.html | Op-Ed: Facing an epidemic of mislabeled seafood | Op-Ed: Facing an epidemic of mislabeled seafood
In 2004, a team of scientists in my research lab, then at the University of North Carolina, used DNA sequencing to show that at least 60% of fish sold as red snapper in markets across the U.S. were mislabeled and were other species. The seafood industry responded by sayin... |
adc8a889a557f7171280cb4ae561f7d3 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-may-canada-immigration-policy-20161227-story.html | Op-Ed: Canada’s sanctuary for migrants is built on a strict immigration policy | Op-Ed: Canada’s sanctuary for migrants is built on a strict immigration policy
To a lot of commentators, Canada looks like a sanctuary for progressive thinking on immigration, an exception to the nativist wave sweeping the United States and Europe.
A recent cover of the Economist put a maple leaf crown on the Statue of... |
0f620384c0eb179c80dc82bacb9d6172 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mayor-amazons-are-real-20141130-story.html | Op-Ed: Where Wonder Woman came from | Op-Ed: Where Wonder Woman came from
Some 2,500 years ago, the Greeks had a big Amazon moment.
Warrior women who gloried in their freedom rode into Western culture in the myths, artwork and histories of classical antiquity. On horseback, shooting bows, swinging battle-axes, hurling spears and dying heroically in battle,... |
5b97ac571c8b63fc79d6f175d3515401 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-aleppo-20161218-story.html | Op-Ed: The tragic, unsurprising fall of Aleppo | Op-Ed: The tragic, unsurprising fall of Aleppo
The slaughter of civilians in Aleppo last week may have shocked the conscience of the world, but no one should have been surprised. Syria’s Assad regime has always treated opponents savagely, and its assault on Aleppo, once the country’s largest city, has been coming for a... |
4ca24ecfa25c1890f9d11eeb67b63cee | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-boehner-failure-of-gop-majority-20150311-column.html | Column: John Boehner’s minority government of pragmatic Republicans | Column: John Boehner’s minority government of pragmatic Republicans
Last week’s drama in the House of Representatives, when Speaker John A. Boehner needed Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi to rescue him from his own rebellious party, looked like a messy disaster for Republicans. But it could have been worse.
If the House ... |
9426aebf1a5b9661a3bf0b87f94654a0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-clinton-book-20170910-story.html | Column: ‘What Happened’ in 2016? Hillary Clinton still doesn’t know | Column: ‘What Happened’ in 2016? Hillary Clinton still doesn’t know
Was this book necessary? Hillary Clinton’s anguished, angry memoir of her presidential campaign, “What Happened,” will be unveiled this week, complete with television appearances and a 15-city lecture tour.
Other Democrats have been dreading this momen... |
cbf1d97822cfe5f8dc75b6eca14da930 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-clinton-foundation-20160828-snap-story.html | Column: One thing is certain in the Clinton Foundation scandal: Hillary didn’t avoid the ‘appearance’ of conflict | Column: One thing is certain in the Clinton Foundation scandal: Hillary didn’t avoid the ‘appearance’ of conflict
The first thing you need to know about the Clinton Foundation is that it’s not, contrary to what Donald Trump said last week, “the most corrupt enterprise in political history.” It’s not even close. Nor is ... |
530b30dec80a5648afcb2ebe48393d45 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-column-state-of-the-union-20140129-column.html | State of the Union: Obama’s era of limits | State of the Union: Obama’s era of limits
The rap against President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday was that his agenda, once ambitious and transformational, has suddenly turned modest.
Instead of grand bargains and sweeping change, the president proposed holding a summit meeting on working families and e... |
4af51e95544e3a431195139fd43ee4d8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-comey-credibility-20170514-story.html | Column: Trump’s dangerous credibility gap | Column: Trump’s dangerous credibility gap
When Donald Trump was merely a real estate mogul, he exaggerated flamboyantly and reporters considered it charming: He promoted Trump Tower as a 68-story building, even though it has only 58 floors. When Trump was a presidential candidate, he lied enthusiastically, but that did... |
a83206e0f62ff6b43ef287a0133e619a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-election-response-20181107-story.html | Op-Ed: The blue wave never came, but voters did rebuke a heedless, headstrong president | Op-Ed: The blue wave never came, but voters did rebuke a heedless, headstrong president
An ancient political adage holds that winning elections is about addition, not subtraction — that parties succeed by building the broadest coalitions they can. Donald Trump, who became president by defying the rules, tried to win Tu... |
c806b1dafe1e3683834466056d54678b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-mea-culpa-20161228-story.html | Column: The media got a lot wrong this year, but the criticism has been over the top | Column: The media got a lot wrong this year, but the criticism has been over the top
I was right in July – but oh, so wrong in November.
In July, I wrote an amazingly intelligent column explaining how Donald Trump, then dismissed as an erratic underdog, could win the presidential election. Voters were hungry for change... |
6ad5dab8198635d76d7260fa922aba07 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-mueller-fire-20170723-story.html | Column: If President Trump fires Robert Mueller, we’re headed for a constitutional crisis | Column: If President Trump fires Robert Mueller, we’re headed for a constitutional crisis
President Trump has openly declared war on Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating the Russian saga. The president clearly wishes he could fire Mueller; his associates say he’s mused about that for weeks. Now, by steppin... |
ac4ee3e9208bbba05903c59abb506d69 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-north-korea-deescalation-20170816-story.html | Column: The trio that pulled the U.S. back from the nuclear brink | Column: The trio that pulled the U.S. back from the nuclear brink
After threatening fire and fury, how does a superpower deescalate? By scrambling its secretary of State, secretary of Defense and military chief to reassure foreign leaders that President Trump should be taken seriously, not literally.
That’s what Rex Ti... |
1f09e31c5a08d732e196b968aaeb623e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-obamacare-republicans-trumpcare-20170307-story.html | Column: If you thought the Obamacare backlash was bad, Trumpcare will give Democrats a whipping boy for the ages | Column: If you thought the Obamacare backlash was bad, Trumpcare will give Democrats a whipping boy for the ages
There’s a new rule in American politics: Whichever party owns healthcare will come to regret it.
Seven years ago, Barack Obama’s Democrats passed a health insurance law that promised to cover almost everyone... |
29309f998bd2c3dd4e2c8c1babe9374d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-pivot-asia-china-aggression-20160522-snap-story.html | Column: Obama’s pivot to Asia is working | Column: Obama’s pivot to Asia is working
When President Obama declared in 2011 that he wanted U.S. foreign policy to pivot to Asia, some derided the move as a clumsy attempt to flee the messy conflicts of the Middle East.
But the pivot has actually worked pretty well – as will be evident when Obama travels to Asia this... |
77516f6036fd2afdd2ae2de5ffd9ee76 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-tillerson-trump-north-korea-20171004-story.html | Column: Trump undercuts Tillerson with every tweet | Column: Trump undercuts Tillerson with every tweet
Last weekend, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was hard at work in Beijing, trying to persuade China’s leaders to tighten economic sanctions on North Korea. The United States wants a peaceful solution, he told them, and sanctions could force Kim Jong Un to negotiate.
“... |
5cf14d885c09a2bc8b012b07f94103fa | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-trump-rigged-election-20161023-snap-story.html | Column: Rigged election? Trump is just hanging himself out to dry | Column: Rigged election? Trump is just hanging himself out to dry
Say what you will about Donald Trump, he’s already kept one campaign promise: “I’ll keep you in suspense.”
That’s what Trump said last week when debate moderator Chris Wallace asked if he would promise to accept the result of the presidential election — ... |
f4dda3a6cb2136056293ce655dab63ee | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-trump-success-20170129-story.html | Column: Trump did great this week (according to his supporters) | Column: Trump did great this week (according to his supporters)
By most mainstream accounts, President Trump’s first week in office was chaotic, dominated by needless arguments over inauguration crowds, mythical millions of illegal voters and a Twitter fight with the president of Mexico. That’s how it looked to many of... |
2b3b52ac9d4ee0bd941d8057bb98e3e7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-trumpcare-promises-20170507-story.html | Column: The GOP has a lot of promises to keep on healthcare | Column: The GOP has a lot of promises to keep on healthcare
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. That was only the first act in a legislative drama that now moves to the Senate. It’s far too early to guess what the outcome will be, but one thing’s for sure... |
69f581b5fea5a5fb6db5af20fca199b1 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-trumpism-obamacare-20170312-story.html | Op-Ed: Trumpcare: Is this what populism looks like? | Op-Ed: Trumpcare: Is this what populism looks like?
The battle in Congress over how to replace former President Obama’s healthcare law is about much more than health insurance. It’s the first legislative skirmish in a larger struggle over what Trumpism, Donald Trump’s presidential agenda, will turn out to be in practic... |
f0f1e17f04d57cc94d57306ead296a47 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmeekin-eastern-front-armistice-20181111-story.html | Op-Ed: It was never quiet on the Eastern Front. Still isn’t | Op-Ed: It was never quiet on the Eastern Front. Still isn’t
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the guns on the Western Front fell silent after four years of unfathomable carnage. Never again, came the cry from Europe’s devastated people — and although the promise of the armistice was betrayed i... |
dab79ebc0a6b0739de195dde9ff1d46c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-meyerson-medicaid-expansion-voting-20181105-story.html | Op-Ed: Red states could be coming around on Obamacare | Op-Ed: Red states could be coming around on Obamacare
What a difference eight years make. On the eve of the midterm elections of 2010, career-ending defeat loomed over dozens of Democratic congressman who’d voted for the Affordable Care Act, derisively branded “Obamacare” at the time. In 2018, Republicans, the current ... |
8d1db6bcc25312d6f0767975834517bb | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-meyerson-riots-race-class-20170428-story.html | Op-Ed: In L.A., more racial harmony, more economic inequality | Op-Ed: In L.A., more racial harmony, more economic inequality
On the 25th anniversary of the Rodney King riots, Los Angeles is glowing with racial amity — and festering with economic disparity. We all are getting along just fine, it seems, and by the way, many of us are very poor, even though we work as hard as we can.... |
d263b57dd5851042e88afb459b767926 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-minter-supreme-court-cases-lgbt-gay-job-discrimination-20190502-story.html | Op-Ed: Three LGBTQ job discrimination cases could have wider consequences for everyone | Op-Ed: Three LGBTQ job discrimination cases could have wider consequences for everyone
The Supreme Court last week took three cases that will determine whether Title VII, the part of the Civil Rights Act prohibiting discrimination in the workplace, protects lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender employees. In each case ... |
cce01b0a7be9a0ec761ecd36aad55fe3 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mones-harvey-weinstein-sexual-assault-20171022-story.html | Op-Ed: Harvey Weinstein’s alleged pattern of harassment echoes that of child sexual abusers | Op-Ed: Harvey Weinstein’s alleged pattern of harassment echoes that of child sexual abusers
There are many striking aspects to the breathtaking fall of Harvey Weinstein — the volume of women who have come forward, the number of years his alleged behavior remained an open secret, the sheer brazenness of that alleged beh... |
4b7daea06b2b33c563c4aed596647c93 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-morrison-bowdich-20150211-column.html | Column: The FBI’s man in L.A. on how to find the bad guys among us | Column: The FBI’s man in L.A. on how to find the bad guys among us
David Bowdich, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s L.A. office, oversees the most populous beat in law enforcement — seven Southern California counties, some 44,000 square miles, and nearly 19 million people. He joined the bureau in 1995, and most... |
a1c9bb11e8233aa9ed14899cb126ecbe | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-morrison-famiglietti-20140219-column.html | Jay Famiglietti’s mission: to rescue us from our bad water habits | Jay Famiglietti’s mission: to rescue us from our bad water habits
If there are stars among the state’s water experts, Jay Famiglietti is one, with titles too long for a marquee: a UC Irvine professor of earth system science and head of the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling, and a new member of the Santa Ana Regional Wa... |
348064c2787692cbc681567b2f8a8aa6 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-morrison-jobrani-20150218-column.html | Column: Stand-up Maz Jobrani on the culture of comedy | Column: Stand-up Maz Jobrani on the culture of comedy
When you grow up as Maz Jobrani did, as one of the few Iranian American kids in the rich Bay Area town of Tiburon, a kid embarrassed when his dad drove him to school in a Rolls-Royce instead of a Volvo like the other parents — comedy might come naturally. His family... |
1587019b0904528104ce9efdb56f4eb7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-morrison-krosnick-climate-change-20150506-column.html | Column: Stanford’s Jon Krosnick: On climate change, most Americans want action | Column: Stanford’s Jon Krosnick: On climate change, most Americans want action
Another presidential election, another chance for Republican candidates to step out of the denial zone and deal with climate change. That would put them on the same side as a large majority of Americans, if you ask Jon A. Krosnick. He’s a S... |
7f8be993a5b61f8c39ec2a929307f78a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-moscovich-geriatric-envy-20190617-story.html | Op-Ed: Cancer taught me that getting old isn’t something to fear — it’s a privilege | Op-Ed: Cancer taught me that getting old isn’t something to fear — it’s a privilege
In a two-week period doctors told me that I had a small tumor in my breast and that my Hodgkin’s lymphoma had come back, for the third time. I was 36. As I waited for test results I found that in addition to the two cancers, I’d develop... |
4c24a1200f0ecd5ac2f8b81265ab7b34 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-muggah-thompson-rio-games-security-20160622-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: Can Brazil protect the Olympic Games and its own citizens? | Op-Ed: Can Brazil protect the Olympic Games and its own citizens?
“Brazil, you are our next target.” The tweet went unnoticed at first, lost in the aftermath of the devastating Paris attacks of November 2015. It was sent by Frenchman Maxime Hauchard, a self-declared jihadist and Islamic State affiliate. News of the pos... |
84a5c961c92354f9b84904bdafb5c8cf | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-myers-israel-citizenship-arabs-20140114-story.html | Israel’s dilemma: Who can be an Israeli? | Israel’s dilemma: Who can be an Israeli?
Recently, Israel has been beset by a pair of controversies relating to its Arab minority: first, the proposal over whether to resettle Bedouin Arabs against their will in state-sponsored towns, and second, the renewed call by Israel’s foreign minister to “transfer” Arab resident... |
a4d784eb7b76657accb0bb961dcc83c5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-nader-iran-deal-obama-trump-islamic-republic-20190711-story.html | Op-Ed: The best deal for the U.S. isn’t a new nuclear agreement, but an entirely new Iran | Op-Ed: The best deal for the U.S. isn’t a new nuclear agreement, but an entirely new Iran
The old way of dealing with the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer work. The regime’s march toward a nuclear weapons capability is not only a threat to U.S. national security interests, but global peace. And merely engaging t... |
917b89292f34cc6e687c0a19f4b0197f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-naugler-liver-transplant-rules-20161213-story.html | Op-Ed: California has long wait lists for liver transplants, but not for the reasons you think | Op-Ed: California has long wait lists for liver transplants, but not for the reasons you think
About 7,000 people get a liver transplant each year in the United States, while 17,000 remain on waiting lists at transplant centers. Who should get a lifesaving transplant has always been a complex calculation. But it has bl... |
94ffdbf424cfced7e616c425131f56ff | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-nealon-verbeek-honduras-20180420-story.html | Op-Ed: To stop migrant caravans, we need to maintain U.S. aid to Honduras | Op-Ed: To stop migrant caravans, we need to maintain U.S. aid to Honduras
Remnants of a migrant caravan crossing Mexico are on the last leg toward the U.S. border in Tijuana, where scores of Hondurans are expected to ask for asylum. This has attracted the ire of President Trump, who not only tweeted a threat to cut off... |
bc996c53926e3b2ae581300a8853828f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-neme-ivory-poaching-terrorism-20131014-story.html | Terrorism and the ivory trade | Terrorism and the ivory trade
If the world needs another reason to get serious about combating elephant poaching, here’s one: The attack by terrorists on Westgate Mall in Nairobi. Income from illegal ivory trafficking is a substantial funding source for the Shabab, the group that claimed responsibility for the attack.
... |
3ebf3fe6ff28aa97865abe030b56f90a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-neuborne-mueller-grand-juries-20181129-story.html | Op-Ed: Trump may fire Mueller, but he can’t fire Mueller’s grand jury | Op-Ed: Trump may fire Mueller, but he can’t fire Mueller’s grand jury
Senate Republicans blocked the so-called Mueller protection bill this week, with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calling the legislation “a solution in search of a problem.”
But even if President Trump does fire special counsel Robert S. Mueller III,... |
68889ddba09f383bf2334f92b47b98ae | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-newton-column-california-republicans-20141013-column.html | Column: Can the California GOP craft a winning campaign strategy? | Column: Can the California GOP craft a winning campaign strategy?
As California’s Republican Party contemplates its way out of the political wilderness, most of the public debate has focused on questions of ideology: Can social conservatives stomach moderation on issues such as abortion or gay marriage in exchange for ... |
becdf7680049d6c202c03be57ec0f7e0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-newton-column-pornography-condoms-20140804-column.html | Op-Ed: Why porn and condoms don’t mix | Op-Ed: Why porn and condoms don’t mix
Los Angeles voters committed some bad public policy in 2012 when they approved Measure B, which mandated the use of condoms in any adult film shot in the county. Now, state lawmakers are prepared to double down on that misadventure and spread the mandate to all of California.
At fi... |
18817f133f3f44b8204913d01d54e3af | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-newton-county-sheriff-20190418-story.html | Op-Ed: County supervisors need to get creative to rein in Sheriff Villanueva | Op-Ed: County supervisors need to get creative to rein in Sheriff Villanueva
The Los Angeles County supervisors are facing a familiar problem: how to oversee the work of a county sheriff whose judgment they don’t trust.
Since winning an upset electoral victory last fall, Sheriff Alex Villanueva has done little to assur... |
2cd4f024da86526221331eef8542e72c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-oatfield-urberization-of-food-movement-20180620-story.html | Op-Ed: Don’t Uberize California’s homemade food movement | Op-Ed: Don’t Uberize California’s homemade food movement
In 2012, I teamed up with a bread baker, urban farmers and home-based food makers to advocate for the California Homemade Food Act, a law that allows for the sale of homemade foods that are low-risk and do not require refrigeration, such as breads and jams. Thous... |
c34a401ab8853d85c25d07a07647607f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ocanto-venezuela-guaido-maduro-trujillo-radio-20190421-story.html | Op-Ed: In Venezuela, life has gone from bad to worse. And the world has quit noticing | Op-Ed: In Venezuela, life has gone from bad to worse. And the world has quit noticing
In recent weeks, the people calling in to my morning radio show in the Venezuelan town of Trujillo have asked questions I just can’t answer: “When will the power be back?” “Where can we get clean water?” “How long will we have to deal... |
ebb333d07272781e0657395c18b6bd6e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ohanlon-afghan-elections-20140330-story.html | Op-Ed: In Afghanistan election, three plausible presidents | Op-Ed: In Afghanistan election, three plausible presidents
Negative early headlines about Afghanistan’s April 5 presidential election are easy to imagine. Some candidates are already trying to foster a simplified view among Westerners that they can fail to make the likely second-round runoff only if there is fraud. Thi... |
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