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7601b17b28a718cdeedf7f9c03edb6a5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ohanlon-china-japan-senkaku-diaoyu-islands-20141130-story.html | Op-Ed: A framework for resolving Japan-China dispute over islands | Op-Ed: A framework for resolving Japan-China dispute over islands
How to make sense of the dispute between Japan and China over some half a dozen uninhabited islets in the East China Sea known as the Diaoyu to the Chinese and the Senkaku to the Japanese?
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FOR THE RECORD:
In a Nov. 30 OpEd about disputed is... |
40811e095cbe13c808cd9a33a41c4b5c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-oppenheimer-sick-dog-cost-20160920-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: How much is too much to spend on a sick pet? | Op-Ed: How much is too much to spend on a sick pet?
Recently I noticed that J.J., our 12-year-old, black-and-white-spotted mutt, was a little too big around the belly — not in a pregnant way, in a weird way. At the animal hospital, the veterinarian had the reassuring calm of a woman who had delivered a lot of bad news.... |
290e0a7519f9accb226b6eb502c24555 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-parsons-stolen-guns-20170727-story.html | Op-Ed: Stolen guns are enabling violent crime. Will Congress actually do something about it? | Op-Ed: Stolen guns are enabling violent crime. Will Congress actually do something about it?
In the early morning of July 5, NYPD Officer Miosotis Familia was killed by a gunman in an ambush attack while patrolling a Bronx neighborhood. Just weeks earlier, on the other side of the country, a UPS employee entered his Sa... |
5118bb7a58ad101b54f3dadb9b9e58d7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-patt-morrison-asks-masha-gessen-putin-20160803-snap-story.html | Patt Morrison Asks: Vladimir Putin biographer Masha Gessen on Russia, Trump and WikiLeaks | Patt Morrison Asks: Vladimir Putin biographer Masha Gessen on Russia, Trump and WikiLeaks
Russia flies a different flag now, but its song remains the same — the tune of the Russian Federation anthem is the old Soviet Union’s, unchanged. And unchanged too is Russia’s endless strategizing against the United States.
Masha... |
b9c350139958f9fd47c84517fdf69efb | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-patterson-clinton-press-negative-coverage-20160921-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: If Clinton loses, blame the email controversy and the media | Op-Ed: If Clinton loses, blame the email controversy and the media
If Hillary Clinton loses the presidential election in November, we will know the reason. The email controversy did her candidacy in. But it needed a helping hand — and the news media readily supplied that.
My analysis of media coverage in the four weeks... |
104d74d4bec0974df7b1467c6647dddb | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-pearl-health-costs-voting-20181102-story.html | Op-Ed: Can how you vote in the midterms bring down the cost of health care? | Op-Ed: Can how you vote in the midterms bring down the cost of health care?
A professional acquaintance told me she received two booklets in the mail last week. The first stated that her family’s health insurance premiums were going up $130 per month. The second was her sample ballot for the Nov. 6 election. Concerned ... |
e39b20f3f3c31fd271470179ffdd0d80 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-perry-picciuto-disability-rights-abortion-zika-20160829-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: Disability rights and reproductive rights don’t have to be in conflict | Op-Ed: Disability rights and reproductive rights don’t have to be in conflict
Earlier this month, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio stated that women infected with the Zika virus, which can cause congenital disabilities such as microcephaly, should not be permitted to have legal abortions. In March, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, now... |
366dac2d99d733761e85689ac58624e9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-pitney-democrats-should-choose-pelosi-20181123-story.html | Op-Ed: Nancy Pelosi is too old and too unpopular to be speaker. She’s also too good at the job to pass over | Op-Ed: Nancy Pelosi is too old and too unpopular to be speaker. She’s also too good at the job to pass over
When a party wins a majority in the House, its leader usually becomes speaker. But the process is not automatic. The party caucus nominates its candidate for speaker, who then goes up for election by the full Hou... |
790705d90cbac930e49b2626b6e88b49 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-poem-silk-20130825-story.html | Relief Within Reach | Relief Within Reach
Have you felt my husband’s pain Senator?
Have you watched your cancer-stricken spouse go from being an avid backpacker to not being able to walk across a room?
Have you seen your husband vomit everything he tried to eat for a five-day period? Including water.
Have you heard your loved one wither wit... |
a818a2281350c1d83254beab9bce9e46 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-pollack-north-korea-20180612-story.html | Op-Ed: The Trump-Kim summit was far from ‘epochal’ but at least it’s a return to diplomacy | Op-Ed: The Trump-Kim summit was far from ‘epochal’ but at least it’s a return to diplomacy
The outcome of the Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un summit in Singapore brings to mind the old Army quip: “Hurry up and wait.”
The urgency of holding a meeting between the top leaders of North Korea and the United States, rather than dip... |
c280e1313f6282fe0a377933583beb8c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-pollin-single-payer-healthcare-healthy-california-20170621-story.html | Op-Ed: Single-payer healthcare for California is, in fact, very doable | Op-Ed: Single-payer healthcare for California is, in fact, very doable
The California Senate recently voted to pass a bill that would establish a single-payer healthcare system for the entire state. The proposal, called the Healthy California Act, will now be taken up by the state Assembly.
The plan enjoys widespread s... |
b458b3d025be5fb1bcd2f0ce7bcdb00b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-pomfret-hollywood-china-20170526-story.html | Op-Ed: Don’t worry, Hollywood. China’s not a threat | Op-Ed: Don’t worry, Hollywood. China’s not a threat
Is China about to take over Hollywood? Chinese investment has flooded into the industry in recent years. AMC, the world’s largest network of theaters, is owned by the Dalian Wanda Group, which also has purchased Legendary Picture Productions. Three other entertainment... |
204676364232556d07228ab45738f2da | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-prestowitz-china-hacking-20140526-story.html | Op-Ed: Got intel, Uncle Sam? Share it with U.S. companies. | Op-Ed: Got intel, Uncle Sam? Share it with U.S. companies.
By charging five Chinese military officers with hacking into U.S. corporations on behalf of Chinese industry, the Obama administration claims it is taking a tough step to protect the intellectual property of American companies. In fact, the move isn’t so much t... |
6e0b132bb719d8de7ff3a5d5d9a314eb | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-prestowitz-tpp-trade-pact-20150123-story.html | Op-Ed: The Trans-Pacific Partnership won’t deliver jobs or curb China’s power | Op-Ed: The Trans-Pacific Partnership won’t deliver jobs or curb China’s power
As counselor to the secretary of Commerce in the Reagan administration, I was involved in a number of trade negotiations, including the so-called MOSS (market-oriented sector-selective) talks. Some veteran negotiators waggishly renamed those ... |
831c5fb284b95fd097839e5342bae8ea | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-price-holiday-phast-20181130-story.html | Op-Ed: Take a holiday from your cellphone | Op-Ed: Take a holiday from your cellphone
As the whirlwind of the holidays descends, you may find yourself wishing that you could slow down time. Here’s the thing: You can.
You just need to put down your cellphone.
For the record:
9:50 AM, Dec. 05, 2018Cellphone holiday: David Greenfield was identified as a psychology ... |
cc1b5eaaad29dae1e1557faea814dc01 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-prudhomme-fracking-california-20131222-story.html | ‘Fracking’ the Monterey Shale -- boon or boondoggle? | ‘Fracking’ the Monterey Shale -- boon or boondoggle?
“Eureka!” reads the California motto, originated in the 19th century Gold Rush. Now some believe the state is on the cusp of a 21st century bonanza, only this time it will be oil that fuels a Golden State boom.
Modern prospectors are eyeing the Monterey Shale formati... |
1b94323c36a86753cd32e3c6c1886950 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-radnofsky-impeachment-20171016-story.html | Op-Ed: The Founding Fathers provided us with a way out of troubled presidency — the direct, doable process of impeachment | Op-Ed: The Founding Fathers provided us with a way out of troubled presidency — the direct, doable process of impeachment
Many people see chaos in the Trump administration and fear for the nation’s future. The president was duly elected, and yet this presidency has already been marked by lawsuits, an FBI investigation,... |
c33d7cf13a36998cd306bb835a7b5d00 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-renn-transit-repairs-20170508-story.html | Op-Ed: The U.S. doesn’t need new rail. We need to fix the transit lines we already have | Op-Ed: The U.S. doesn’t need new rail. We need to fix the transit lines we already have
Rail transit is vital to the health of a small number of U.S. cities such as New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, which are all struggling to keep their existing systems running safely and smoothly. The Bay Area’s BART needs about $1... |
a71da04e5639ca85afa0eaa518df587a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-revesz-pruitt-epa-federalism-20170320-story.html | Op-Ed: According to Scott Pruitt, states only have the right to pollute, not protect their environments | Op-Ed: According to Scott Pruitt, states only have the right to pollute, not protect their environments
Throughout his confirmation hearing and in a recent interview, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt wrapped himself in the mantle of federalism, calling the shared distribution of power between the federal government and s... |
12c4bd5ce6eff13b521a1121954e11ea | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-riley-be-best-melania-trump-20180511-story.html | Op-Ed: Melania Trump’s ‘Be Best’ campaign is too much talk, not enough parental action | Op-Ed: Melania Trump’s ‘Be Best’ campaign is too much talk, not enough parental action
No one thought the rollout of Melania Trump’s “Be Best” campaign against cyberbullying was going to go perfectly. How could a woman married to our cyberbully-in-chief be credible on this issue?
But then came the news that the first l... |
5022c6cfd4ff9114bfa0ae8e50371d70 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-robbins-world-war-one-posters-20181111-htmlstory.html | Op-Ed: World War I unleashed total war, and the power of mass communication | Op-Ed: World War I unleashed total war, and the power of mass communication
Nov. 11, now called Veterans Day, was originally Armistice Day, a commemoration of the end of World War I, in 1918, the cessation of 50 months of shooting, shelling and killing that claimed the lives of 9 million combatants. It was the Great Wa... |
b08ccabe5c03f04f295a84d848179450 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-robson-dress-codes-school-20130905-story.html | School dress codes: Miniskirt madness | School dress codes: Miniskirt madness
Hey kids, what are you going to wear to school today?
A miniskirt? How short? “Sagging” pants: Is that kosher? What about a do-rag? Fishnet tights? Or hoodies, tattoos, sweat pants, frayed jeans, an Afro puff or, if you’re a boy, long locks? How about a breast-cancer-awareness brac... |
44c074fd411d1fa4bb140c460b58a232 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rommelmann-me-too-portland-20190222-story.html | Op-Ed: Outrage culture is out of control | Op-Ed: Outrage culture is out of control
It was 9:30 at night when my husband slid his iPad across the bed to me. On it was an email an ex-employee had sent to current and former staff of his coffee-roasting company in Portland, Ore. The ex-employee explained that a new YouTube series I was hosting, #MeNeither Show, in... |
cb85e12d553c016e619c6f40ae11856d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ross-kristallnacht-anniversary-los-angeles-20181104-story.html | Op-Ed: Eighty years before Pittsburgh, Kristallnacht emboldened Nazis in Los Angeles | Op-Ed: Eighty years before Pittsburgh, Kristallnacht emboldened Nazis in Los Angeles
Eighty years ago this week, Nazi leaders unleashed an unprecedented wave of violence against Jews in Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland. The pogrom of Nov. 9 and 10, 1938, came to be known as Kristallnacht, or night of broken glass.
... |
ca6f2bae95fe08e6d415d85d70441940 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-roth-supreme-court-transparency-20141201-story.html | Op-Ed: At the Supreme Court, conflicts of interest are just a day at the office | Op-Ed: At the Supreme Court, conflicts of interest are just a day at the office
Justice Samuel A. Alito’s sister is a high-powered labor attorney who represents management in disputes with workers. Justice Elena Kagan’s brother, a teacher at an elite public school in New York, has protested the school’s admissions proc... |
0a0389ca21495118c7a7248594c309c8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-saltzman-syria-putin-doctrine-20130912-story.html | The Putin Doctrine | The Putin Doctrine
For more than a decade — after he replaced Boris Yeltsin in the Kremlin and even during the time he had to serve as prime minister under his protege, Dmitry Medvedev — Russian President Vladimir Putin has systematically and consistently pursued a policy that can be labeled the Putin Doctrine. In a nu... |
ce7811e7c43ada06adb2d8aaa01604a2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-sander-gumm-rents-not-as-high-as-we-think-20181102-story.html | Op-Ed: Housing in California is expensive, but it’s not that expensive | Op-Ed: Housing in California is expensive, but it’s not that expensive
California’s housing affordability crisis is on everyone’s lips these days. The state Legislature wrangled with major housing bills during this term; a measure to facilitate rent control is on the November ballot; and leading gubernatorial candidate... |
aedcb2885dd074f66d76ac5f142acd56 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-sanders-opioid-crisis-national-emergency-20171025-story.html | Op-Ed: The opioid crackdown is making life untenable for chronic pain patients like me | Op-Ed: The opioid crackdown is making life untenable for chronic pain patients like me
President Trump recently said that he intends to declare the opioid crisis a national emergency. If he makes good on that promise, it will be the country’s first official state of emergency for a drug epidemic. That designation would... |
2bf0aac39a2500cd275404e5ec278fe8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-sapolsky-lubitz-germanwings-depression-20150402-story.html | Op-Ed: Mental illness made the Germanwings co-pilot a victim along with his passengers | Op-Ed: Mental illness made the Germanwings co-pilot a victim along with his passengers
What are we to make of Andreas Lubitz piloting a Germanwings airplane into the side of a mountain? There is an unhelpful tautology, meant to be explanatory, that arises at times like this. How could someone have done something this e... |
08786e9b68da115d60ffafbb7be15afe | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-sax-analog-nostalgia-20160103-story.html | Op-Ed: Why is vinyl making a comeback? ‘Nostalgia’ doesn’t quite cut it | Op-Ed: Why is vinyl making a comeback? ‘Nostalgia’ doesn’t quite cut it
Over the past few years, analog goods including physical books, board games and, of course, vinyl records have experienced a surprising resurgence — despite the fact that these technologies are functionally obsolete. How could this be happening? Wh... |
9050d26ca8129f007d393a4d5c88a20d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-scheeres-jonestown-20181116-story.html | Op-Ed: Jonestown victims drew public scorn, but now we know the story of their betrayal | Op-Ed: Jonestown victims drew public scorn, but now we know the story of their betrayal
Forty years ago, an American preacher and madman named Jim Jones orchestrated the largest mass murder in recorded history when he forced more than 900 men, women and children to drink a cyanide-laced punch at his eponymous settlemen... |
cc357600a7f111a73646c4eebc56941d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-scheffer-prosecuting-atrocities-syria-iraq-20140706-story.html | Op-Ed: Let justice be served in Syria and Iraq | Op-Ed: Let justice be served in Syria and Iraq
Justice may appear to be the least likely survivor of the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, but history teaches us that investigations and prosecutions of atrocities like those sweeping through these nations can still be achieved despite political obstacles.
Granted, justice st... |
26783161bfeff2c889c37ad83faa9331 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-schillinger-dystopian-fiction-trump-20170316-story.html | Op-Ed: The most relevant dystopian novel for our time is not ‘1984' — it’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ | Op-Ed: The most relevant dystopian novel for our time is not ‘1984' — it’s ‘Lord of the Flies’
In Tobias Wolff’s short story “Bullet in the Brain,” a book critic is shot during a bank robbery after he annoys the robbers by mocking their clichéd stick-up lines. When one of them says, “Hey! Bright boy! Did I tell you to ... |
0a9fea7d70d2667e2dd0fc452b912544 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-schneider-vergara-teachers-20140610-story.html | Op-Ed: Making it easier to fire teachers won’t get you better ones | Op-Ed: Making it easier to fire teachers won’t get you better ones
Tuesday’s ruling by Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu, which held that California’s contract with teachers violates the state’s constitutional guarantee to an equitable education, is certain to set off legal battles across the nation. Explaining his rulin... |
91f9b96ca39857b6ee5990b2d154b415 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-schnur-california-march-3-primary-20190607-story.html | Op-Ed: Let’s face it, California, the Democrats just aren’t that into us | Op-Ed: Let’s face it, California, the Democrats just aren’t that into us
Fourteen Democratic presidential contenders blew into San Francisco last weekend to woo the delegates to the state Democratic Party convention and whisper sweet nothings to California voters.
They promised to give us the time and attention we dese... |
ebf645655714932f9289af2898d00559 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-schrag-tuition-uc-jerry-brown-20150119-story.html | Op-Ed: The tangle behind the UC funding spat | Op-Ed: The tangle behind the UC funding spat
It looks like a classic game of budget chicken: Gov. Jerry Brown tells the University of California not to raise tuition again. When the regents vote to do it anyway, the governor threatens to withhold $120 million from UC’s funding for next year unless the regents back down... |
fb8eaab6e2dc832f2a7a8554d3a241d7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-schrag-vergara-teacher-union-20140403-story.html | Op-Ed: Kill tenure, cure schools? | Op-Ed: Kill tenure, cure schools?
Without a doubt, California’s poor and minority schoolchildren get more than their share of ineffective, unmotivated and demoralized teachers.
But are the state laws governing teacher tenure, dismissal and layoffs now under attack in a Los Angeles court case the real cause of the ineq... |
b4c39f9fd6947bcf515b926533c61360 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-seddon-swastika-nazi-grandfather-20190308-story.html | Op-Ed: My grandfather fought Nazis. The O.C. kids reminded me why I keep his swastikas | Op-Ed: My grandfather fought Nazis. The O.C. kids reminded me why I keep his swastikas
My grandfather returned from World War II with an undiagnosed case of PTSD and an assortment of swastikas. These war trophies – a flag, a lapel pin, a yellow arm band with a Nazi eagle – had previously belonged to German soldiers. Gr... |
24280c85117c9f0f14c277b97a43f801 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-segall-eight-justices-supreme-court-20161027-story.html | Op-Ed: It’s the Supreme Court, not the Senate, that needs to do its job right now | Op-Ed: It’s the Supreme Court, not the Senate, that needs to do its job right now
The U.S. Supreme Court released its December calendar of oral arguments last week. Normally, the justices hear 12 or more cases during this sitting, but this year, they have scheduled only eight — a calendar court commentators have called... |
a48039ce7e0abdffa7ce0ffc79ec4f98 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-segall-gorsuch-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings-20170313-story.html | Op-Ed: Make Neil Gorsuch actually answer questions in his Supreme Court confirmation hearings | Op-Ed: Make Neil Gorsuch actually answer questions in his Supreme Court confirmation hearings
The Senate will begin its confirmation hearings for President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, on March 20. If past is prologue, the hearings will tell us little to nothing about what Gorsuch actually thinks... |
23b1b0f394a5e6553a7c23997ae57013 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shaiken-trump-trade-nafta-usmca-20190705-story.html | Op-Ed: Trump’s NAFTA replacement needs to have its tires kicked | Op-Ed: Trump’s NAFTA replacement needs to have its tires kicked
President Trump would like to see the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement ratified without delay. It’s a bit like a used car salesperson giving you 10 minutes to accept the deal of the century. You may want to look under the hood and test-drive the vehic... |
b5ee1fa53a954b7b69475c0ede2469d1 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shain-wedding-proposal-20190106-story.html | Op-Ed: Our obsession with romcom-worthy wedding proposals isn’t good for healthy marriages | Op-Ed: Our obsession with romcom-worthy wedding proposals isn’t good for healthy marriages
For many women in the United States, a fairy tale persists: Meet guy, fall in love with guy, then anxiously await guy’s declaration of said love in a grand gesture — a spectacular marriage proposal — accompanied by an overpriced ... |
438e4cc2047ce732971619e4a3fe12c0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shakelford-helsinki-midterms-20180719-story.html | Op-Ed: A blue wave is the only thing that can save the republic | Op-Ed: A blue wave is the only thing that can save the republic
As the saying goes, when people show you who they are, believe them. But the Republican political leadership has repeatedly refused to accept the evidence that President Trump is wildly unfit for office. The swift bipartisan condemnation after his shocking... |
2a05b3d864e17c4cd31d37efe83dde82 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shakely-philanthropy-zuckerberg-foundation-20140313-story.html | A philanthropic revolution | A philanthropic revolution
You’ve probably never heard of donor-advised funds, but they are taking over the philanthropic world.
It all started as a matter of economics. A million dollars to most of us is a lot of money. But as start-up cash for a philanthropic foundation it’s chump change. A million-dollar foundation ... |
844eea9d451d51fe45ce396ebb86274a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shelley-freelance-journalists-foley-sotloff-20140907-story.html | Opinion: The dangerous world of freelance journalism | Opinion: The dangerous world of freelance journalism
James Foley and Steven Sotloff, the two journalists recently beheaded on video by members of the militant group Islamic State, had a number of things in common. They both cared deeply about the Middle East and believed that stories from the region needed telling. Th... |
8419d10b8d97df2c4beb3e1bf33c6d92 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-singer-amazon-antisemitism-holocaust-denial-20170302-story.html?_amp=true | Why is Amazon selling Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism? | Why is Amazon selling Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism?
“Did six million really die”? Is the Holocaust the “hoax of the 20th century” and “the greatest lie ever told”? Are Jews secretly planning for “Satan to crush their enemies”?
Holocaust deniers and anti-Semites needn’t look further than Amazon to satisfy their se... |
34f2259199b9f541ea84c6ffda2b84c8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-sjursen-memorial-day-war-iraq-afghanistan-20190527-story.html?_amp=true | The best way America can honor its fallen soldiers is to create fewer of them | The best way America can honor its fallen soldiers is to create fewer of them
These days, adulation for the U.S. military abounds. At professional sports events, the once-modest singing of the national anthem has been overshadowed by flyovers from fighter jets, field-sized flags and uniformed troops on parade. Airport ... |
93e417d270ee10472a65f14232d1b717 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-skocpol-obamacare-gruber-20141210-story.html | Op-Ed: ‘Grubergate’ shows the sad state of debate on Obamacare | Op-Ed: ‘Grubergate’ shows the sad state of debate on Obamacare
On Tuesday, the Republican-led House Committee on Oversight took obvious pleasure in raking MIT economist Jonathan Gruber over the coals about foolish and uninformed comments he made regarding the politics of health reform.
Gruber was deeply apologetic, ack... |
7b59bf842cd782f9eabdd9fcb610e636 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-smyth-brexit-northern-ireland-needs-european-union-20160308-story.html | Op-Ed: Brexit vote has high stakes in Northern Ireland | Op-Ed: Brexit vote has high stakes in Northern Ireland
British Prime Minister David Cameron has set June 23 as the date for a referendum to decide whether the United Kingdom will remain in the European Union. If Britain chooses to exit the EU (the so-called Brexit option), the ramifications will be felt across Europe, ... |
59b791a52daacf535f07dcecaad42cd9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-spencer-men-should-help-recruit-women-they-know-for-combat-20161012-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: If we really want women in combat, men must do more | Op-Ed: If we really want women in combat, men must do more
In December, the Pentagon finally opened all combat jobs to women. Since then only 180 have signed up for the two branches that previously were off-limits — infantry and armor. To illustrate how few that is, the Army’s active-duty infantry is made up of more th... |
fff6d3b53a369675e086de20b52afd5e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-steiker-death-penalty-concrete-20161123-story.html | Op-Ed: The more we confront the death penalty, the less we like it | Op-Ed: The more we confront the death penalty, the less we like it
California’s decision on Nov. 8 to reject Proposition 62 came as no surprise to those of us who study capital punishment. No jurisdiction in human history has ever permanently abolished the death penalty via plebiscite. The reason is simple: referenda a... |
44fa8bfeccc236dbdb07717eb24e4685 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-steiner-arctic-council-treaty-20150318-story.html | Op-Ed: The Arctic’s big year - save it now or be sorry later | Op-Ed: The Arctic’s big year - save it now or be sorry later
This year will be pivotal for the Arctic, one of Earth’s most extraordinary and threatened regions.
The icy top of our planet is suffering effects of climate change more severely than elsewhere, with dramatic ecological and cultural consequences. Arctic sea i... |
17cb353a220a0d55498e36ba313afd8b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-stormy-daniels-strippers-dynamex-california-20190205-story.html?fbclid=IwAR2_616J8XbpCTlvJbKjHWqaP643odzZAZ3SYtUbRkSSuCIccbVXfHEzA4Q | Op-Ed: Stormy Daniels: Strippers need to be treated as freelancers, not employees | Op-Ed: Stormy Daniels: Strippers need to be treated as freelancers, not employees
At most strip clubs, including the ones I’ve worked at throughout my career as a stripper, dancers work as independent contractors who set their own hours. They show up for work on the days they are able to, allowing them to give priority... |
b66e5b9275490eee9d54b5e7b0324bb0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-stratigakos-missing-women-architects-20160421-story.html | Op-Ed: Why is the world of architecture so male-dominated? | Op-Ed: Why is the world of architecture so male-dominated?
Architecture remains a tough profession for women to crack. In the United States, even though nearly half of architecture school graduates are women, only 18% of licensed practitioners are women. Confronted with lower salaries, given fewer career-building oppor... |
d1f2e32622c1641763fc43fc1c5552a0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-strauss-buchanan-presidential-experience-20160912-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: James Buchanan is proof there’s no ideal presidential resume | Op-Ed: James Buchanan is proof there’s no ideal presidential resume
In each presidential race, including the one we’re still slogging through, candidates tout their professional background as offering the best preparation for the job. Is leading a business like leading a country? Should one have foreign policy or milit... |
b6758d38705f6884d95f1f22de7a73db | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-sunstein-mercury-regulation-pollution-epa-20140425-story.html | Op-Ed: Calculating the costs of pollution | Op-Ed: Calculating the costs of pollution
Last week, a divided court of appeals upheld what may well be the most important environmental rule in the nation’s history: the Environmental Protection Agency’s mercury standards. The regulation is expected to prevent up to 11,000 premature deaths, 4,700 heart attacks and 13... |
3bf074b5c515bfc4d1a526256735759c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-svorny-paid-leave-los-angeles-20190218-story.html | Op-Ed: L.A.’s feel-good plan for paid leave won’t feel nearly as good when the costs pile up | Op-Ed: L.A.’s feel-good plan for paid leave won’t feel nearly as good when the costs pile up
City Councilwoman Nury Martinez and Councilman David Ryu have introduced a motion to develop a paid parental leave plan for Los Angeles.
Already, California’s parental and family leave programs offer up to 18 weeks of paid leav... |
07990b3cd6ff35109947c5b9328e1966 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-takeyh-iran-rouhani-actions-20130920-story.html | A kinder, gentler Iran? | A kinder, gentler Iran?
In an autumn ritual, an Iranian president is once more coming to New York for the United Nations’ annual meeting of the heads of state. Media frenzy is likely to follow, as the smiling visage of President Hassan Rouhani dominates the airways next week. Beyond vague pledges of cooperation and lof... |
248ebbcb6a42b429c2902ebcf2bc2f21 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-teicholz-calorie-count-fda-rule-20180520-story.html | Op-Ed: Counting calories won’t reduce obesity. So why are we requiring restaurants to post them? | Op-Ed: Counting calories won’t reduce obesity. So why are we requiring restaurants to post them?
Counting calories is now the law of the land. This month, a long-delayed regulation came into effect requiring all food chains with 20 or more locations to list calorie information on their menus. Nutritionists fought to in... |
b54c47886a37d587a781d65afe6d7542 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-tobias-federal-judges-vacancies-20161121-story.html | Op-Ed: Federal courts need 94 judges. The Senate should vote on qualified nominees now | Op-Ed: Federal courts need 94 judges. The Senate should vote on qualified nominees now
Holding open Justice Antonin Scalia’s vacancy on the Supreme Court was a stated goal of Senate Republicans throughout the protracted, divisive federal elections. But it wasn’t only the high court that senators neglected. There are no... |
ac45a92e78820c724bee15f6829c30f1 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-torres-corporate-funding-politics-20131030-story.html | Shareholders in the dark about ‘dark money’ | Shareholders in the dark about ‘dark money’
Anticipating the Securities and Exchange Commission’s actions can feel like waiting for Godot. The SEC has been sitting on a petition for a new rule requiring publicly traded companies to disclose to shareholders what corporate funds are spent on political activities. The pet... |
067419f77359d51a719a34b17d071ee1 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-torture-report-20141209-story.html | Op-Ed: Prosecute the torturers: It’s the law | Op-Ed: Prosecute the torturers: It’s the law
Torture is a federal crime, and those who authorized it and engaged in it must be criminally prosecuted. On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a 499-page summary of a report that describes the brutal torture carried out by the U.S. government and its employe... |
4866033e4c8b0efe9aa8767879408b83 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-troncoso-mesloh-becerra-trump-fight-20170123-story.html | Op-Ed: Should California’s new attorney general sue Trump early and often? Absolutely not | Op-Ed: Should California’s new attorney general sue Trump early and often? Absolutely not
The California state Senate is poised to confirm Xavier Becerra, a congressman and son of Mexican immigrants, as California’s next attorney general. Becerra’s appointment is a forceful rebuke to President Donald Trump’s poli... |
986f0bcb1df76b821e5dcb652250a082 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-turley-obama-separation-of-powers-20140309-story.html | The president’s power grab | The president’s power grab
Recently, a bizarre scene unfolded on the floor of the House of Representatives that would have shocked the framers of the Constitution. In his State of the Union address, President Obama announced that he had decided to go it alone in areas where Congress refused to act to his satisfaction. ... |
ac6d1edfa1bde9a9ac8628d8f1cd7cca | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ulin-las-vegas-like-los-angeles-requires-closer-look-20170505-story.html | Op-Ed: Deep down, Las Vegas isn’t ‘alien territory.’ It just plays that way in our imaginations | Op-Ed: Deep down, Las Vegas isn’t ‘alien territory.’ It just plays that way in our imaginations
LAS VEGAS — On a hot and cloudless Sunday afternoon early last month, I took an architecture tour of the Las Vegas Strip. The setup was, in part, pure archetype: an open-air double-decker tour bus and a cooler of beer — Cham... |
86fc424b9664b5204d1446707e28b9ba | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-victor-amaya-obradovich-why-our-brains-make-it-hard-to-stop-global-warming-20170917-story.html | Op-Ed: Why the wiring of our brains makes it hard to stop climate change | Op-Ed: Why the wiring of our brains makes it hard to stop climate change
Houston has barely begun to dry out from Hurricane Harvey, and Florida faces a massive rebuilding effort after the Irma catastrophe. These two storms, among the most powerful in American history, are typical of the extreme weather events that are ... |
12749d6a7218d4a428a84fce8e58e8ab | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wagman-how-to-be-an-informed-voter-20180520-story.html | Op-Ed: One voter, 28 candidates for Superior Court judge — how will she decide? | Op-Ed: One voter, 28 candidates for Superior Court judge — how will she decide?
I got an email from Patricia “Patti” Hunter, asking for my vote in the June 5th election. She’s running for Los Angeles Superior Court judge, Seat 16. I know her, I like her, I like her kids. Sure, I thought, why not? Then I thought, I have... |
9040ef8f933ad0b98b67ee612a604908 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wagman-new-years-regrets-20151231-story.html | Op-Ed: The dark night of my New Year’s Eve | Op-Ed: The dark night of my New Year’s Eve
The day before Christmas I brought some cookies to a friend and we stood in her doorway talking about the holidays. She said that Christmas, the holiday spirit and all the decorations and festivities made her weepy. “But you’re not like that,” she said to me. “You don’t get we... |
c821a5767bea258909db36f34751a8fa | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-waite-clayton-women-in-hollywood-20160118-story.html | Op-Ed: Hollywood’s female deficit isn’t going away | Op-Ed: Hollywood’s female deficit isn’t going away
Hollywood is stuck in the boys-in-baseball caps stage: demonstrably, provably unable to budge from its white male past. The 24 producers of the best film Oscar nominees this year include just seven women, which, at 29%, is the high point for women producers, directors,... |
555db1fa4628dd1b7868b0500ef50f53 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-walker-jade-helm-conspiracies-20150507-story.html | Op-Ed: The truth behind Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theories | Op-Ed: The truth behind Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theories
Jade Helm 15 is a special forces training exercise scheduled to take place this summer across seven Southwestern states. It has sparked strong opposition and elaborate conspiracy theories. When Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria answered questions about the operation at a pu... |
258ee08842b3e862f3507b46cc8518da | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wallach-prediction-markets-20160928-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: Sick of political polls? Try prediction markets | Op-Ed: Sick of political polls? Try prediction markets
Let me make a bold prediction: You would badly like to know how the election on Nov. 8 will turn out, and you are searching for signs capable of revealing the near future.
If you’re a romantic, you may fixate on crowd-size estimates or height comparisons. (Most oft... |
049294e6e06f1f73a7fed3f80a31d1b2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-warnke-weiner-sexting-huma-abedin-20160829-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: Huma Abedin finally left Anthony Weiner. Hold the party streamers. Heartbreak is lonesome, even for the powerful. | Op-Ed: Huma Abedin finally left Anthony Weiner. Hold the party streamers. Heartbreak is lonesome, even for the powerful.
This morning I was bombarded by the same news as everyone else: Huma Abedin’s husband, Anthony Weiner, cannot stop sexting. Abedin is Hillary Clinton’s closest advisor and the vice chairwoman of her ... |
9ee09cc6171191234c10a6c2d7913caa | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-waters-calexit-right-secession-20161115-story.html | Op-Ed: Californians should have the right to vote for Calexit | Op-Ed: Californians should have the right to vote for Calexit
I haven’t lived in California for almost 30 years, but I still remember my driver’s license number: C3001816. I’m not sure I’m patriotic about anything, but if I were, it would be California. I was born there, grew up in Redondo Beach – at night, in winter, ... |
9b93b173296693bb264a13ad7ddf7cb4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-watzman-avi-katz-20180812-story.html | Op-Ed: In Israel, a cartoonist was fired for a political offense. I quit my job in protest | Op-Ed: In Israel, a cartoonist was fired for a political offense. I quit my job in protest
I have never met Avi Katz, the illustrator and editorial cartoonist fired by the Jerusalem Report in late July for a politically controversial drawing. In fact, I’ve never even spoken to Katz on the phone. Yet we have the intimat... |
1c75a2acc435409d73b063f163345b97 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-waxman-net-neutrality-should-pass-in-congress-now-20190508-story.html | Op-Ed: Henry Waxman: Congress should act now to ensure a free and open internet | Op-Ed: Henry Waxman: Congress should act now to ensure a free and open internet
Since the rise of the internet, there have been concerns that the dominance of a relatively small number of internet service providers could potentially threaten its open nature. I sought to prevent that outcome during my time in Congress b... |
d92d7c8a11cbb9033a29af1f3bfdac12 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-webb-skynet-terminator-trump-20170829-story.html | Op-Ed: Skynet began destroying humanity 20 years ago today. It shares a disturbing number of qualities with Trump | Op-Ed: Skynet began destroying humanity 20 years ago today. It shares a disturbing number of qualities with Trump
Twenty years ago today, Skynet, the fictional artificial intelligence network and antagonist of the “Terminator” movie franchise, became self-aware.
In the films, a Silicon Valley tech company built the net... |
0b23e70a0d58f8813a032269186d41e9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-welch-cancer-treatement-20151119-story.html?reset_flag=true | Op-Ed: We should look less hard for cancer | Op-Ed: We should look less hard for cancer
There’s a new cancer treatment strategy in the news: Wait and see. Time magazine ran a cover story on simply watching small breast cancers; the Wall Street Journal similarly reported on watching small thyroid cancers. So-called watchful waiting has been a long-standing option ... |
f413641cc343ac7766a2bfcc4155091f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-welch-comey-firing-20170510-story.html | Op-Ed: Spineless Republicans abdicate their responsibility to keep Trump in check | Op-Ed: Spineless Republicans abdicate their responsibility to keep Trump in check
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the noted former litigator and poster boy for constitutional conservatism, had some stern words for the attorney general of the United States. “Predecessors of yours in both parties, Democrat and Republican, when ... |
bf59e7c4531c0e1fca16628c3573d0cd | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-welch-kobach-fraud-kansas-20180808-story.html | Op-Ed: Kris Kobach and the GOP’s voter fraud fantasia | Op-Ed: Kris Kobach and the GOP’s voter fraud fantasia
If you want to know where a political party is heading, look at what’s buoying the candidates who take on incumbents during primary season.
The long-shot victory of millennial heartthrob Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over 15-year Capitol Hill veteran Rep. Joe Crowley (D-... |
0d7434938516ce0ca377d01fb1824eb5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-welch-low-trust-20181122-story.html | Op-Ed: Americans don’t trust their government, its institutions, or each other. This is not a good place to be | Op-Ed: Americans don’t trust their government, its institutions, or each other. This is not a good place to be
Let’s be clear: I am not asking you to feel sorry for Kat Timpf.
Yes, the 30-year-old television commentator and National Review writer was chased out of a Brooklyn bar a few weeks ago by a shouty woman enrage... |
3c7fa9374cf8c314c0f757a0812137c1 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-welch-michael-cohen-hearing-trump-impeachment-20190228-story.html | Op-Ed: Michael Cohen fired his shots, but there was no magic bullet to end our national nightmare | Op-Ed: Michael Cohen fired his shots, but there was no magic bullet to end our national nightmare
Holster the toy cannons, people. Cancel those refresher courses on the 25th Amendment.
For all the fireworks, grubby details and rageaholic outbursts at Michael Cohen’s Capitol Hill public testimony Wednesday, it took just... |
a9bc6094d60d44030ca45a567d3dff9d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-welch-sessions-hysteria-20170110-story.html | Op-Ed: At the Sessions hearing, the business of government is ... hysteria | Op-Ed: At the Sessions hearing, the business of government is ... hysteria
Code Pink may get a bad rap, disrupting as it does seemingly every significant event on Capitol Hill. But the most hysterical performances at Tuesday’s serially interrupted Senate confirmation hearing for attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions c... |
55aef1d13adadd8ad959c6930d7c1bfd | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-white-alex-jones-character-20170419-story.html | Op-Ed: Is Alex Jones an extreme conspiracy theorist or a giant troll? Here’s why the answer matters | Op-Ed: Is Alex Jones an extreme conspiracy theorist or a giant troll? Here’s why the answer matters
Is there a difference between the persona we offer to the world and the person we truly are? That question is as old as philosophy, poetry or adolescence. But here’s a modern American twist: What’s the legal difference b... |
446b9f33439b427fd65f284cb92f5111 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wright-bathrooms-and-transgender-kids-20170317-story.html | Op-Ed: A transgender child’s dilemma: When to go, and where | Op-Ed: A transgender child’s dilemma: When to go, and where
I remember the trembling fear that engulfed my body. I would hold my pee for hours; I normalized lower belly pain because it was less uncomfortable than choosing a bathroom. It was a constant dance, one that consumed my mind and eclipsed my lessons: how to be ... |
c37ee7951cf84f88bc7519d08f56545d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-yaroslavsky-katz-metro-assembly-bill-20160531-snap-story.html | Op-Ed: Why L.A.'s $120-billion transit plan is in danger of tanking | Op-Ed: Why L.A.'s $120-billion transit plan is in danger of tanking
Metro, the Los Angeles region’s transit planning and construction agency, has been on a roll. In recent years three new projects, the Expo Line to Santa Monica, the Gold Line to Azusa and the Orange Line busway to Chatsworth have been built and are now... |
6c73d7d9e47230effa1a78a67dc4888b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-yunker-corporate-multilingualism-websites-20190318-story.html | Op-Ed: America’s biggest brands are increasingly multilingual | Op-Ed: America’s biggest brands are increasingly multilingual
Over the past two years, despite tariffs and trade impasses, Brexit and the border wall, American companies have been expanding their global reach by increasing the number of languages they speak.
Consider Amazon. Since 2017, the company has added Czech, Hin... |
66c66b09e75a88e63917ca1c068f93b6 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-zacchino-cooper-murder-20190130-story.html | Op-Ed: DNA tests could reveal if Kevin Cooper was wrongly convicted of murder. Why didn’t Jerry Brown order them? | Op-Ed: DNA tests could reveal if Kevin Cooper was wrongly convicted of murder. Why didn’t Jerry Brown order them?
On Christmas Eve, shortly before the end of his final term as California’s governor, Jerry Brown ordered new DNA testing in a case that has been cited repeatedly as a possible miscarriage of justice.
But Br... |
f90625cc6e1dc40c8d7347cfacd5b1fc | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-election-mike-judge-trump-clinton-idiocracy-20161109-htmlstory.html | Column: Mike Judge: The election is over, but our idiocracy is here to stay | Column: Mike Judge: The election is over, but our idiocracy is here to stay
Mike Judge’s movie “Office Space” was a cultural game-changer. But it’s his decade-old film of time-traveling social satire that’s achieved a cult-status revival in this election year: “Idiocracy.” The portmanteau title — “idiot” plus “democrac... |
4b13e9a73d32ed83925d0e15257d2017 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-measure-s-housing-density-20170301-htmlstory.html | Column: ‘No’ on Measure S means ‘Yes’ to a 21st-century Los Angeles | Column: ‘No’ on Measure S means ‘Yes’ to a 21st-century Los Angeles
The idea of Los Angeles that sold the middle class and the Midwesterner on this place well over a century ago is still deep in our brains: the R-1 home with its lawn, its 3 bedroom-2 bath and garage. But the city’s changed, and Angelenos’ needs have to... |
6a09d2aa210bb3c42284854e716a29c5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-asks-edward-humes-traffic-20161115-story.html | Column: Patt Morrison asks: Transit guru Edward Humes on spending L.A.'s new transit billions | Column: Patt Morrison asks: Transit guru Edward Humes on spending L.A.'s new transit billions
Measure M – M as in money, M as in moving around – passed handily with Los Angeles County voters, meaning that over the next 40 years, tens of billions of dollars in new sales tax money will make its way to rail lines and buse... |
5947ad3549b9198efb07b2a83f416b8d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-bruce-forbes-20161220-story.html | Column: Patt Morrison Asks: Bruce Forbes, Christmas historian, on our many reasons for the season | Column: Patt Morrison Asks: Bruce Forbes, Christmas historian, on our many reasons for the season
“Santa Baby” is a Christmas song. So is “O Little Town of Bethlehem” — or more accurately, a Christmas carol. Somehow, we have gotten used to hearing “war” and “Christmas” in the same sentence. But a Methodist minister who... |
96784f2578bcfb9d87a8d9d043a8d19b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-citlali-fabian-oaxaca-photography-20190626-htmlstory.html | Column: Using old equipment, Oaxacan photographer Citlali Fabián records her even older culture | Column: Using old equipment, Oaxacan photographer Citlali Fabián records her even older culture
There’s no way of knowing exactly how many Oaxacans live in the Los Angeles area — maybe 50,000, maybe 250,000. Since the 1970s, and even before, they have come, from one of Mexico’s poorest states, for the usual reason — wo... |
baae20f32d8b6afc3873c07cf9d3d130 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-colleen-dunn-bates-california-20170412-htmlstory.html | Q&A: Your guide to talking like a Californian. Tips for the ‘hella tricky’ dialect | Q&A: Your guide to talking like a Californian. Tips for the ‘hella tricky’ dialect
It’s not that Californians have an accent that takes some getting used to, as in Boston, or the American South. On the contrary, the standard-issue California accent is about as plain, mainstream American English as you can get. But spea... |
3cd422fb6a60fe58ad7eee5dfe17a489 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-das-williams-gun-violence-20181121-htmlstory.html | Column: California law makes locking up guns easier than locking up possibly dangerous gun owners | Column: California law makes locking up guns easier than locking up possibly dangerous gun owners
Another day, another mass shooting — nearly one a day in this country, a dozen people dead this time, and a gunman who mocked the world on social media even as he was killing people in a Thousand Oaks bar. “It’s too bad I ... |
2d66a1ec74b191801ab1bde87ac854b9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-dolores-huerta-civil-rights-20170830-htmlstory.html | Column: Without unions, our middle class is vanishing. Without a middle class, we don’t have democracy | Column: Without unions, our middle class is vanishing. Without a middle class, we don’t have democracy
How are you spending Labor Day? Dolores Huerta will be doing what she’s always done: laboring — for workers’ rights, immigrants’ rights, women’s rights. And this time she’ll also be barnstorming for a new documentary,... |
62a3956135cd29939c05bb6411499895 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-joan-baez-20180221-htmlstory.html | Column: Joan Baez on ‘Nasty Man’ Donald Trump, #MeToo and her final tour as a musician | Column: Joan Baez on ‘Nasty Man’ Donald Trump, #MeToo and her final tour as a musician
Hers is the voice of folk music and protest music of the 1960s and ’70s, and hers, too, the voice for civil rights and peace. Joan Baez takes her new album on tour in early March, and last month, she visited the California state Asse... |
cc496b628b3b746ac9af046521bccbbd | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-kimberly-reed-dark-money-20180801-htmlstory.html | Column: ‘Dark money’ is smashing our system of political openness. How one state is fighting back — and winning | Column: ‘Dark money’ is smashing our system of political openness. How one state is fighting back — and winning
There are reasons that “dark money” came to be called “dark.” One is that since the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling called Citizens United, hundreds of millions of dollars, from sources almost completely obscured... |
6ccf5d3065d100dffbb37a4697d369fd | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-mario-garcia-luis-olivares-20181114-htmlstory.html | Column: More than 30 years ago, Father Luis Olivares brought the sanctuary movement to Los Angeles | Column: More than 30 years ago, Father Luis Olivares brought the sanctuary movement to Los Angeles
Sanctuary, political asylum, Central American refugees – Los Angeles has heard this before, and probably heard it first, long ago, from a man of the cloth. The Catholic priest who defied the law and bucked the church hier... |
0142cc8a1bc8590167c8a653d660ed16 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-norman-mineta-politics-20190508-htmlstory.html | Column: Norman Mineta on internment, 9/11 and a life spent in the vortex of American politics | Column: Norman Mineta on internment, 9/11 and a life spent in the vortex of American politics
The remarkable life of Norman Y. Mineta has been spent in public service and on behalf of a civic conscience. And it’s been bookended by two events that altered American history: Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and the ter... |
0f5921725ed11715cc33cfdfd4b8806e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-nra-liberal-gun-club-20160617-snap-story.html | Column: Patt Morrison asks: Lara Smith of the Liberal Gun Club | Column: Patt Morrison asks: Lara Smith of the Liberal Gun Club
Don’t bother checking your calendar – it isn’t April 1, and there is such a thing as the Liberal Gun Club. The national organization is pro-gun ownership and pro-2nd Amendment, and attorney Lara Smith is the vice president of the California chapter, the clu... |
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