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8ae5bc3b16fb371f35b9ce9bbaf66935 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-rachel-dolezal-20170308-story.html | Column: Patt Morrison asks: Rachel Dolezal on racial fluidity and her changing identity | Column: Patt Morrison asks: Rachel Dolezal on racial fluidity and her changing identity
In June 2015, a few days before Donald Trump declared that he was running for president, the news cycle was dominated by a different person: Rachel Dolezal. She was the head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, an artist, a teacher ... |
759e0f32a2c769763684f0e01518acec | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-richard-beck-child-abuse-pizzagate-20190220-htmlstory.html?fbclid=IwAR00E7E-JUmYuyqH_K6AlEwUyOz0oE4yMbvBaSDCdx9rOy1MtqSu5412Ym0 | Column: How one SoCal preschool started a national hysteria over false child abuse crimes | Column: How one SoCal preschool started a national hysteria over false child abuse crimes
You could divide us into those old enough never to forget it, and those of us who never heard of it. Thirty-five years ago, seven adults who taught at or ran the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach faced criminal charges, which ... |
dd0a5ac4336c4cd718625d724d979ec7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-steven-ross-nazi-los-angeles-20170927-htmlstory.html | Column: How Hitler’s fascism almost took hold in Los Angeles | Column: How Hitler’s fascism almost took hold in Los Angeles
Hitler didn’t have to set foot out of Germany for his malign plans to be felt beyond the Reich’s borders — even here in Los Angeles. Through the depths of the Depression right into World War II, Nazi Germany was ginning up support in Southern California, wher... |
8a32255791e4a59b382f9bd6eae2135b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-unger-vote-riders-20171206-htmlstory.html | Column: Disenfranchised because of voter ID bureaucracy? VoteRiders and Kathleen Unger can help | Column: Disenfranchised because of voter ID bureaucracy? VoteRiders and Kathleen Unger can help
In Alabama next week, and across the United States next November, voters — even voters who are old hands at voting, who’ve cast ballots for years — may find themselves standing at a polling place being told that this time, t... |
fd3dde39de7cc85fbc56d0a2f3e5b005 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-xavier-bacerra-20170208-story.html | Column: Patt Morrison asks: Xavier Becerra, California’s new attorney general and point man in its battle with Trump | Column: Patt Morrison asks: Xavier Becerra, California’s new attorney general and point man in its battle with Trump
Longtime Democratic congressman Xavier Becerra has come home to California — and to a battle, one at least as big as any he’s fought in Washington, D.C. He was Gov. Jerry Brown’s surprise appointment to ... |
61ad9f93cad10bc9ca6d9ec681056795 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-voice-of-america-cold-war-bennett-20170215-htmlstory.html | Column: Can Donald Trump turn Voice of America into his own private megaphone? | Column: Can Donald Trump turn Voice of America into his own private megaphone?
Its name sounds like an artifact of the Cold War, but the Voice of America — the international news source funded by the U.S. government — has changed geography and technology. VOA just began a 24-hour Russian-language news channel on severa... |
a0bcd2c08991d3b959e704648144614f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/blowback/la-ol-la-streets-dangerous-cyclists-blowback-20131104-story.html | L.A. streets aren’t safe enough for cyclists, but we’re getting there | L.A. streets aren’t safe enough for cyclists, but we’re getting there
As The Times’ Paul Whitefield points out in his Oct. 24 post saying there’s little hope for making L.A.'s streets safer for cylists, there’s Hollywood, and there’s real life. And in real-life Los Angeles County, nearly 1 in 4 trips does not involve a... |
0f5ced69c113c04579006d63d960ef42 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ed-bedroom-dwellers-hillary-clinton-20161002-snap-story.html | Opinion: Despite Trump’s spin, Hillary Clinton’s ‘basement’ tape speaks to empathy and realism | Opinion: Despite Trump’s spin, Hillary Clinton’s ‘basement’ tape speaks to empathy and realism
Hackers are once again shaking up the craziest presidential race in modern memory.
Last week they released an email stolen from a campaign staffer for Hillary Clinton that included a recording of Clinton speaking to a group o... |
25cc7dfd6f9cbe6fba3cfa7b3da41cd5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ed-trump-jobs-report-20170310-story.html | Opinion: President Trump is lucky to be riding a better economic wave than his predecessors caught | Opinion: President Trump is lucky to be riding a better economic wave than his predecessors caught
How are President Trump’s first 100 days different from those of his last three predecessors? Oh, there are so many answers to that question. But here’s one that’s substantive, not merely stylistic: Trump is starting his ... |
d56ff05c86551d5380207a880399e654 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-1003-morrison-rushdie-20121003-column.html | Salman Rushdie, freedom writer | Salman Rushdie, freedom writer
In the 1990s, he was the world-famous novelist few people officially laid eyes on. Of Salman Rushdie’s dozen-plus novels, it was “The Satanic Verses” (1988) that raised a hue and cry and sent him undercover: Its supposedly sacrilegious portrayal of the prophet Muhammad brought Rushdie a f... |
9698c08bb137c934245e04851aa028e2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-allen-reza-aslan-and-jesus-20130804-story.html | Reza Aslan’s ‘new’ take on Jesus | Reza Aslan’s ‘new’ take on Jesus
Jesus not only saves; it turns out he also sells.
UC Riverside professor Reza Aslan’s new book, “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth,” currently occupies the No. 1 spot on Amazon’s bestseller list. The Iranian-born Aslan, who converted from Islam to evangelical Christianity ... |
df09804cea316d497308e79ad93a0bdc | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-fraser-occupy-wall-street-history-20111013-story.html | Wall Street protests: A long American tradition | Wall Street protests: A long American tradition
The only thing really surprising about the Occupy Wall Street movement is that it didn’t happen sooner. The United States has a long history of friction over policies that enable an elite to thrive at the expense of ordinary people.
The earliest tensions emerged soon afte... |
d1183586bfdcbd0556cc36379997aa18 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-goldberg-gop-demise-20121113-story.html | Goldberg: The right isn’t waving a white flag | Goldberg: The right isn’t waving a white flag
The conservative Gotterdammerung is finally here. “Like dazed survivors in a ravaged city, America’s conservatives are wailing and beating their collective breasts,” opines the Economist’s “Lexington” columnist. “A leading conservative thinker,” asked by the Economist to “l... |
466ec6629589e80ac78bd02a05e50f0b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-goldberg-msm-benghazi-20121030-column.html | Goldberg: Benghazi -- no mere ‘October surprise’ | Goldberg: Benghazi -- no mere ‘October surprise’
If you want to understand why conservatives have lost faith in the so-called mainstream media, you need to ponder the question: Where is the Benghazi feeding frenzy?
Unlike some of my colleagues on the right, I don’t think there’s a conspiracy at work. Rather, I think jo... |
84319e570b6fbe0b451bf3e087840fa5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-goldberg-obama-black-families-20121120-column.html | Goldberg: Obama needs a family plan | Goldberg: Obama needs a family plan
President Obama has several stated ambitions for his presidency. He wants it to be “transformative.” He wants to unite Americans of all parties. He wants to build an economy from the middle class out (whatever that means), and he wants to help what you might call the domestic refugee... |
da42c0a457d158779a073ca68749b0f2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-goldberg-voting-rights-act-20130226-column.html | Goldberg: A ruling on racial progress | Goldberg: A ruling on racial progress
I can only hope that the scourge of racism is finally purged from Stewartstown and Pinkham’s Grant. These are two of 10 New Hampshire towns covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which requires local officials to get permission, or “preclearance,” on any changes to ... |
63848075275d1a629cca30fb704faf61 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-hillary-email-20160525-snap-story.html | Opinion: Hillary Clinton still has an email problem — and denial won’t make it go away | Opinion: Hillary Clinton still has an email problem — and denial won’t make it go away
Donald Trump isn’t the only presidential candidate with credibility problems. The State Department’s inspector general delivered his report on Hillary Clinton’s emails on Wednesday -- and it wasn’t good news for the presumptive... |
5ac5b4542ded96bbe42ec9c4428092f3 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-mcmanus-column-syria-20120408-column.html | McManus: A ticking clock on Syria | McManus: A ticking clock on Syria
The interventionist liberals of the Obama administration were a doleful bunch last week. It was the 20th anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo, when a Bosnian Serb army battered a city full of civilians with artillery while the United States issued ineffective cries of alarm. The compar... |
813f1cd76f29c2f1098c9d4a4cc596e3 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-mcmanus-syria-obama-20130501-column.html | McManus: Obama plays for time to avoid ‘red line’ | McManus: Obama plays for time to avoid ‘red line’
Barack Obama really, really does not want to get tangled up in Syria.
For almost a year, Obama’s secretaries of State — first Hillary Rodham Clinton, now John Kerry — have pressed the president for more aid to the insurgents who are fighting to overthrow Syrian Presiden... |
d4779e7304051068f3fe5994cdae26d9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-morrison-darcy-20130605-column.html | Brian D’Arcy, DWP union’s power guy | Brian D’Arcy, DWP union’s power guy
Sometimes L.A. politics seem like patty-cake, but when Brian D’Arcy gets in the game, the game gets serious. He’s a third-generation union man, and the union he heads, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, is the DWP’s biggest and a huge player at City Hall. I... |
e98d4ca037aee8a4566e7e188b88b8d2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-morrison-oliver-022611-column.html | Jamie Oliver: Food fighter | Jamie Oliver: Food fighter
Jamie Oliver presses a “happy cow” veggie burger on me with the fervor of a believer handing out religious pamphlets. He asks me whether I love it, but his smile is pure certainty that I will -- and even love him for making it. He’s stepped out from the kitchen at Patra’s, a Glassell Park dri... |
73db6fe342a39b1514c9295a149978c7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-oppenheimer-martin-luther-king-letter-from-a-20130326-story.html | King’s Easter epistle on civil disobedience | King’s Easter epistle on civil disobedience
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s decision to violate an injunction forbidding him to pray, sing or march in public in Birmingham, Ala. On Good Friday 1963 (which fell on April 12 that year), King led a march from the 16th Street Baptist C... |
7b03ff6850a5202ddf4e8c00b84c607b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oe-sapolsky-brain-and-race-20130728-story.html | Are humans hard-wired for racial prejudice? | Are humans hard-wired for racial prejudice?
Reaction to the acquittal of George Zimmerman was just the latest reminder: Race continues to divide us as a species.
But why? Are human brains hard-wired to notice and react to racial differences? At first glance, that’s precisely what research seems to demonstrate.
Some of ... |
f230cc0ea57b0ee0079ab4023548729c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oew-baker-macguineas9-2009oct09-story.html | Preventing Medicare and Social Security from going broke | Preventing Medicare and Social Security from going broke
Today’s topic: At what point in the economic recovery can Washington turn its attention to addressing the impending insolvency of Medicare and Social Security? Dean Baker and Maya MacGuineas finish their debate on the relationship between unemployment rates and e... |
7dbea41f407bb8c97ef0db725ab680d1 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oew-dyson2-2009oct02-story.html | So many rail agencies, so little service | So many rail agencies, so little service
The Times deserves credit for bringing attention to rail safety with its Sept. 27 article, “Death on the rails in L.A.” But the article focused too much on the sensational and not enough on the root causes of Metrolink’s safety problems. For example, I agree that the rail crossi... |
775c665f70f92d05155644ec449024cd | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oew-mionske12-2010jan12-story.html | Doctor’s prison sentence isn’t a sea change for cyclists | Doctor’s prison sentence isn’t a sea change for cyclists
Last year’s infamous incident on Mandeville Canyon Road -- in which a driver braked hard in front of a group of cyclists, causing two of them to be seriously injured -- began as so many anti-cyclist road-rage incidents do: The driver provoked the cyclists into re... |
32a2bcb6b4205e266c07f9150341bb0b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oew-ross-rusch6-2009may06-story.html | Prop. 1A: the right budget fix? | Prop. 1A: the right budget fix?
Today’s topic: Would Proposition 1A help California’s broken budgeting system, or just make it worse? And what happens if the measure fails and California doesn’t get the billions of dollars in revenue from the increased sales tax, personal income tax and vehicle license fee?
Don’t under... |
92675724fafe50d4f109c30d6d70323f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oew-wallace16-2009dec16-story.html | Who’s watching charter schools | Who’s watching charter schools
In its Dec. 9 editorial, “Learning about ethics,” The Times calls for state charter school laws to be “changed accordingly” in relation to publicly disclosing the expenditures of taxpayers’ money. Readers may come away with the impression that charter operators are subject to little accou... |
c4ca213d6805c8d10058de5fecf43c0d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-oew-walsh22-2009jun22-story.html | Ending the national panic on ‘sexting’ | Ending the national panic on ‘sexting’
Text messages are forcing us to rethink the way we deal with the difficult issues that arise when teenagers get involved with sex; The Times addressed this touchy issue in its June 1 editorial, “Keeping an eye on ‘sexting.’ " Some in law enforcement have taken extreme measures aga... |
05f4845ffc3f76dbbbb728debf5cf473 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-a-twitter-art-racism-20150519-story.html | Opinion: Vanessa Place’s ‘Gone With the Wind’ tweets: Artistic expression or racism? | Opinion: Vanessa Place’s ‘Gone With the Wind’ tweets: Artistic expression or racism?
When Vanessa Place began tweeting Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind,” she did it as an artistic act of provocation. And provoke she did, leading the Assn. of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) — confronted with a Change.org petit... |
0f2de03c7a6ef8040da39d98f73bc266 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-arizona-executions-midazolam-20161223-story.html | Opinion: In a win for transparency, Arizona ordered to let witnesses see entire execution | Opinion: In a win for transparency, Arizona ordered to let witnesses see entire execution
Transparency in executions picked up a partial win in Arizona this week.
In a lawsuit filed by news organizations, U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow ruled that an Arizona policy of shielding the actual injections in executions fr... |
6819782766b14e437a23e68a77cf7a26 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-bishop-election-20161019-snap-story.html | Opinion: An archbishop finds Trump and Clinton equally problematic. Really, Your Grace? | Opinion: An archbishop finds Trump and Clinton equally problematic. Really, Your Grace?
On Thursday Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will appear at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a white-tie fundraiser for Catholic charities at which they will flank Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York. L... |
a725fae9e1a119ea293bdae21dce52f2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-california-bullet-train-versus-hyperloop-20140121-story.html | Don’t scrap California’s bullet train for the Hyperloop -- yet | Don’t scrap California’s bullet train for the Hyperloop -- yet
California’s bullet train is taking heat from all sides.
Last week, Republican Rep. Jeff Denham of Turlock introduced legislation to suspend federal funding for the high-speed rail line, amid concern that the project may not get the state and private money ... |
ad038379a53a97d724a87f0b58040541 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-california-drought-lawn-fake-grass-20141111-story.html | Opinion: Are you an environmental enemy if you replace your lawn with fake grass? | Opinion: Are you an environmental enemy if you replace your lawn with fake grass?
How bad is California’s drought?
“Imagine a disaster movie in which 22 million people are told that they have only 12 to 18 months of water left. Unless Southern Californians pull together, we will be making that movie,” water scientist J... |
c04410d41231f841baa0fcc95a76f984 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-california-prison-conditions-state-assembly-20130911-story.html | Prison hunger strike: Food for thought on how government works | Prison hunger strike: Food for thought on how government works
California inmates end their long hunger strike after the Assembly agrees to hold hearings on prison conditions. There -- that was easy.
ALSO:
Sacramento’s prison deal
America’s Cup: Huge egos, fast boats
Getting California’s bullet train back on track
Foll... |
e9394c7e97c795248854dc65e4262ac7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-circumcision-20141209-story.html | Opinion: It’s time to end inaccurate criticisms of male circumcision | Opinion: It’s time to end inaccurate criticisms of male circumcision
The recent report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should quell the unfounded arguments that male circumcision is no better than or different from female circumcision, also known as female genital mutilation. According to the dra... |
5728089ccc194cd9484b6feeb044e6c9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-coca-cola-super-bowl-ad-backlash-20140203-story.html | The Coke ad got it right: America is beautiful, in any language | The Coke ad got it right: America is beautiful, in any language
Just sitting at my desk here Monday, sipping a Coke and humming “America the Beautiful.” Am I an un-American subversive commie/pinko or what?
It turns out that the ads were the only things worth watching during Sunday’s Super Bowl. (Unless you were a Seaha... |
25243c9b639bf0cdce4d63031d3e1171 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-congress-federal-lands-20170203-story.html | Opinion: Hey, Republicans, get your hands off of our federal lands | Opinion: Hey, Republicans, get your hands off of our federal lands
A Utah congressman on Thursday abandoned a bill that would have forced the federal government to sell off more than 3.3 million acres of public land in 10 states. It’s good that he did, because the forced sales were an astoundingly bad idea and, thankfu... |
f4aa6b2998070c153686ed0ae07a1991 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-dawn-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-movie-politics-20140718-story.html | Opinion: Is ‘Planet of the Apes’ a left-wing apologia or a right-wing screed? | Opinion: Is ‘Planet of the Apes’ a left-wing apologia or a right-wing screed?
Is “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” a leftist’s dream movie -- or a right-wing farrago of sexism, racism and even speciesism worthy of, oh, Mel Gibson?
Let’s see what the primate blockbuster’s messages could be:
On the left, we have:
1. Gun c... |
43177c1d29a08329737808bb9ecabf01 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-disneyland-measles-vaccination-readers-react-20150120-story.html | Readers React: Could the Disneyland measles outbreak quiet vaccine doubters? | Readers React: Could the Disneyland measles outbreak quiet vaccine doubters?
Take a bunch of people, pack them into a space and watch some get frighteningly ill. For much of human civilization, that was how we lived, and with measles outbreaks at Disneyland and elsewhere, we’re getting a taste of what our infection-pla... |
77f47901d10c7b0b461e00dbf33d9184 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-donald-trump-children-morals-20161103-story.html | Opinion: Why I’ve started to tell my kids Donald Trump is a bad man | Opinion: Why I’ve started to tell my kids Donald Trump is a bad man
Raising small children provides a unique lens through which to view an election. I have three boys, two of whom are 4-year-old twins with enough sense to detect the anxiety their mother and father feel over Tuesday’s vote. They overhear NPR broadcasts ... |
1e96a57411d9f9219009b1ced0970e0c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-ebola-chocolate-cocoa-production-20141003-story.html | Opinion: The surprising Ebola connection to chocolate | Opinion: The surprising Ebola connection to chocolate
Just when you thought you knew all the consequences of the Ebola pandemic, here’s another one: it could affect the supply of chocolate. Of course that doesn’t rise to the seriousness of illness and death, but it does show how much Ebola affects trade and production.... |
dbf7802a35bb1adf5771f0f9730a54f5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-elderly-drivers-fatal-accidents-20150821-story.html | Opinion: Should elderly drivers face different licensing rules? | Opinion: Should elderly drivers face different licensing rules?
It was without a doubt a tragedy. Last October, 92-year-old Mary Catherine O’Neil put her car into reverse and, allegedly without looking, backed up and killed Melissa Bonney Ratcliff, 45, in a San Diego parking lot. This week the San Diego city attorney c... |
ab6d8da237c3fff939e1673cffb328b4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-fbi-grand-jury-ipads-20141203-story.html | Opinion: Four reasons to be glad a federal grand jury is investigating L.A. Unified’s iPads | Opinion: Four reasons to be glad a federal grand jury is investigating L.A. Unified’s iPads
There was a lot to dislike about the proposal to buy $500 million worth of iPads for Los Angeles Unified School District students (plus $800 million for the necessary broadband at schools): The price, the incomplete curriculum, ... |
25247b9dcdab73a66095f1177619f095 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-feinstein-love-affair-with-cars-20140521-story.html | Opinion: Sen. Feinstein is wrong: L.A.'s love affair with cars is over | Opinion: Sen. Feinstein is wrong: L.A.'s love affair with cars is over
It’s time to retire the old adage that Los Angeles has a love affair with cars. That vision of L.A. is so tired. Really, how could anyone maintain a fondness for driving after experiencing rush hour on the 101, 405 or 10 freeways? Or getting stuck i... |
7a8c996f1c5471e999ad891451292d4b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-google-self-driving-cars-future-20140528-story.html | Opinion: Why Google’s self-driving car can’t get here soon enough for me | Opinion: Why Google’s self-driving car can’t get here soon enough for me
Having returned from a lovely Memorial Day weekend trip to the Sierra, I have just one thing to say: Where can I buy one of those Google self-driving cars?
You know, the ones Google unveiled Tuesday, the ugly little critters that look a bit like s... |
386b5b4746aebb5c7202632e764d819b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-gop-chutzpah-20160930-snap-story.html | Opinion: GOP blames Obama for flaws in a law he vetoed | Opinion: GOP blames Obama for flaws in a law he vetoed
The classic example of chutzpah is the boy who kills his parents and then pleads for mercy at his trial because he’s an orphan. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has come close with his suggestion that President Obama is to blame for problems with ... |
8b9f3d63d53d611f5076b392d46401da | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-grooveshark-loses-copyright-infringement-20140930-story.html | Opinion: Grooveshark loses copyright infringement case, but breaks no new legal ground | Opinion: Grooveshark loses copyright infringement case, but breaks no new legal ground
Add Grooveshark to the list of online music sharing platforms that ran afoul of the courts not because its users were infringing songs, but because its employees were.
U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Griesa in New York ruled this week ... |
ef056fbb87b5aceec58077eae0e97ea2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-harper-lee-to-kill-a-mockingbird-20150203-story.html | Opinion: Do we really want to read a new Harper Lee novel? | Opinion: Do we really want to read a new Harper Lee novel?
Count me among those not so excited that a long-mothballed Harper Lee novel will be published this summer. It will be a literary curiosity, but will it be good? And is publishing the book in Lee’s best interests?
The manuscript is being described as a sequel to... |
cc0fbcf09a9b3565e6814b965f3a85da | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-howard-zinn-diana-west-under-fire-20130808-story.html | Why scholars are challenging Howard Zinn and Diana West | Why scholars are challenging Howard Zinn and Diana West
Left-wing historian Howard Zinn -- author of the perennially popular “A People’s History of the United States” -- has long been criticized by other historians on the left, a number of whom have publicly challenged both his facts and his interpretations.
Some of th... |
21d1a7e363ec604b59433219b1815b2a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-indiana-religious-freedom-boycotts-and-intolerance-20150402-story.html | Opinion: The backlash against the backlash against Indiana’s new religious freedom law | Opinion: The backlash against the backlash against Indiana’s new religious freedom law
Not to go all M.C. Escher, but is someone who protests against intolerance guilty of intolerance?
That’s the question posed by the backlash against the backlash to Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Exhibit A is Memories Pi... |
a5c03f74bf9e560b5fb330eb164d7ceb | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-janette-sadik-khan-cycling-los-angeles-20131031-story.html | Could NYC’s ‘wacko nutso’ Janette Sadik-Khan be right for L.A.? | Could NYC’s ‘wacko nutso’ Janette Sadik-Khan be right for L.A.?
There were two applause lines in New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan’s TED talk last month: First, that in six years she “turned cycling into a real transportation option in New York”; and second, that she brought the city its firs... |
ee94e34f0f1243daeb1e776e6bfdc0ab | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-kissing-sailor-life-photo-backlash-20140319-story.html | Life’s ‘kissing sailor’ photo: sexual harassment or unadulterated joy? | Life’s ‘kissing sailor’ photo: sexual harassment or unadulterated joy?
Glenn McDuffie, the man believed to be the “kissing sailor” of Times Square captured in Life magazine’s pages in 1945, died this month. But not before the feminist establishment successfully transformed the hapless McDuffie from an exuberant symbol ... |
ae91dd97322cbab50281b75471a07957 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-legalize-marijuana-free-prior-offenders-20140115-story.html | Don’t just legalize marijuana, free prior offenders | Don’t just legalize marijuana, free prior offenders
With pot now legally for sale in Colorado, and Washington state gearing up to follow suit, marijuana legalization activists across the country are pushing hard to replicate these political successes in other states. Voters in Massachusetts could ratify legalized marij... |
b8ab3bf17f073b8150c31694b76010dc | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-lego-female-scientists-girls-stem-20140617-story.html | Opinion: Will Lego’s ‘female scientists’ inspire girls to enter STEM fields? | Opinion: Will Lego’s ‘female scientists’ inspire girls to enter STEM fields?
Lego, the Danish manufacturer of colorful plastic bricks, has finally caved, er, responded to years of feminist carping over supposed gender stereotyping in its “minifigures” and now has a boxed set of “female scientists” that’s presumably mar... |
027e4f24fa23653e066abd119e16f33d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-lorde-asian-boyfriend-racist-comments-20131211-story.html | Dear Internet: Lorde is dating an Asian guy -- get over it | Dear Internet: Lorde is dating an Asian guy -- get over it
Over the last week, New Zealand singer Lorde has been the subject of racist cyber-bullying on Twitter after a photo of the 17-year-old singer and her boyfriend, James Lowe, was posted to social media. Odd Future rapper Tyler, the Creator Instagrammed a picture ... |
792845dd5bcc9c8679f236d4435f92ef | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-loretta-lynch-north-carolina-bathroom-bill-20160511-snap-story.html | Opinion: Loretta Lynch’s defense of transgender rights was brilliant. When will Democrats follow her lead and speak up? | Opinion: Loretta Lynch’s defense of transgender rights was brilliant. When will Democrats follow her lead and speak up?
On Monday, U.S. Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch stood before the American public and delivered the most powerful rejection of North Carolina’s anti-transgender bathroom bill, HB 2, of any public official to ... |
9a6b6be44181f8192c6df6f87f90c8a9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-los-angeles-flatroof-skycraper-20140930-story.html | Opinion: Los Angeles leaves the flat-roof society | Opinion: Los Angeles leaves the flat-roof society
Think of the nation’s most impressive skylines. New York City has Art Deco points atop the Empire State and Chrysler buildings and the spire capping the new One World Trade Center tower. Besides the soaring Willis Tower (formerly known as the Sears tower), Chicago’s sky... |
c3f906ba72a02e84f0c53f9dcf0db626 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-malheur-bundy-occupation-acquittal-20161028-story.html | Opinion: In acquitting the Oregon militants, a white jury determines that the law doesn’t apply to white protesters | Opinion: In acquitting the Oregon militants, a white jury determines that the law doesn’t apply to white protesters
Remember that group of militants that staged an armed standoff in Oregon last winter? You know, the one where they occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for six weeks, vowing that if the gov... |
d5a47a2c16031dfda991dba4b9e204bf | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-marco-rubio-bible-ted-cruz-dirty-tricks-20160222-htmlstory.html | Opinion: Do we care what Marco Rubio really thinks about the Bible? | Opinion: Do we care what Marco Rubio really thinks about the Bible?
A vacancy opened up Monday on Ted Cruz's campaign staff when the tea party's favorite ex-Canadian was forced to fire a top aide, his communications director Rick Tyler. The aide's offense? Posting on Facebook a video that purportedly showed rival Marco... |
12cbff2223ccdb1c98627368751b4eb5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-mathematician-plays-powerball-20160112-story.html | Opinion: How a mathematician plays Powerball | Opinion: How a mathematician plays Powerball
Imagine a stack of one dollar bills reaching from Los Angeles to Tijuana with exactly one $1,000 bill in the stack. The odds of any single ticket winning the lottery tonight are smaller than finding that $1,000 bill on your first try. In fact, the odds are significantly wors... |
45883b09f7f631c6dd7aec6164758d2d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-millennial-jonah-goldberg-blowback-20140108-story.html | A lefty millennial activist takes on columnist Jonah Goldberg | A lefty millennial activist takes on columnist Jonah Goldberg
“In America,” I once quipped, “the old are always ready to give those who are young the sad news that history, with its opportunities for fresh ideas, is over.” And they often do it in the columns of Jonah Goldberg.
On Monday, The Times posted a throwback Co... |
d27e04bc6a1e2a3626c4c4e0416fa938 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-mirror-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-20160926-snap-story.html | Opinion: Turning the mirror back on Donald Trump | Opinion: Turning the mirror back on Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton on Friday ran a campaign ad that played Donald Trump’s words over video of little girls looking in the mirror. “I’d look her right in the fat ugly face of hers,” his familiar voice booms. “A person who is flat-chested is very hard to be a 10.” “She’s a sl... |
444ba6126d3007f5414ac6acc9596b6b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-missouri-protesters-reporters-20151110-story.html | Opinion: No safe space for reporters at University of Missouri protest | Opinion: No safe space for reporters at University of Missouri protest
On Monday evening my Twitter feed included several mostly laudatory references to the University of Missouri student activists who had succeeded in forcing the resignation of the university’s president. But then there was a dramatic shift occasioned... |
ebcabff5c633b95bd8a96d4a7573546d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-my-figueroa-mayor-garcetti-20140506-story.html | Opinion: A bikeable, walkable L.A.? If ‘My Figueroa’ works, it could happen | Opinion: A bikeable, walkable L.A.? If ‘My Figueroa’ works, it could happen
After months of uncertainty, Los Angeles’ first “complete street” will move forward: Three miles of Figueroa Street will be transformed from a thoroughfare for cars into a route that serves cars, buses, bicycles and pedestrians equally.
The My ... |
94b195dd582b5b63ffb9cc236efaf79c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-net-neutrality-fcc-wheeler-backpeddle-20140512-story.html | Opinion: FCC’s Wheeler tries new sales pitch for Net neutrality proposal | Opinion: FCC’s Wheeler tries new sales pitch for Net neutrality proposal
Even before he released the first summary, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has been trying to set the record straight about his Net neutrality proposal. But when the actual language is released this week, critics may still r... |
947117564ee062955be40068f14c3e63 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-nfl-football-feminism-20141003-story.html | Opinion: Hate football? Or maybe the real problem is maleness | Opinion: Hate football? Or maybe the real problem is maleness
Steve Almond doesn’t like football anymore. He’s upset because football players sometimes get injured. He’s upset because football players sometimes engage in off-the-field criminal or quasi-criminal acts. Mainly, he’s upset because football is a masculine s... |
ad2a66a934e072355225b9bb446f5352 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-nsa-introduced-vulnerabilities-into-encryption-snowden-reveals-20130905-story.html | Latest Snowden revelation: NSA sabotaged electronic locks | Latest Snowden revelation: NSA sabotaged electronic locks
The latest Edward Snowden-powered exposé published by the New York Times, ProPublica and the Guardian is, to me, the most frightening. It reveals that the National Security Agency has moved beyond its historic role as a code-breaker to become a saboteur of the e... |
d789cec25d03d0a6f051e8033eef08cc | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-nyc-chi-la-cycling-transit-chiefs-20131104-story.html | L.A., New York, Chicago: Anyone want to be a transportation chief? | L.A., New York, Chicago: Anyone want to be a transportation chief?
So it’s official: The top transportation posts in the nation’s three largest cities are in play.
Los Angeles’ Jaime De La Vega is out effective Dec. 1. New York’s Janette Sadik-Khan has made no announcements but has labeled her six years a good run and ... |
a92813dcf6b4232efad824df2cc67f45 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-obama-immigration-dreamers-deferral-20141120-story.html | Opinion: Obama to Dreamers’ parents: No deferral for you | Opinion: Obama to Dreamers’ parents: No deferral for you
By the time President Obama addressed the nation about immigration Thursday night, the centerpiece of his executive action was old news: He would protect from deportation millions of immigrants in the country who have lived here for at least five years and whose ... |
689cdc2f0b59ddb7a33ff4aacdf8c0ef | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-obama-immigration-reform-house-20131024-story.html | Is Obama’s call for immigration reform really helpful? | Is Obama’s call for immigration reform really helpful?
After months of being relegated to the back of the legislative line, immigration reform is back in the spotlight. On Thursday, President Obama gave a speech urging the Republican-led House to move quickly to fix the nation’s dysfunctional immigration system.
But is... |
898e952cde334cbcd1fa58b0f5278c75 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-obama-speech-20170426-story.html | Opinion: $400,000 for an Obama speech: Tacky but not corrupt | Opinion: $400,000 for an Obama speech: Tacky but not corrupt
Should we be scandalized by reports that former President Barack Obama will be paid $400,000 to deliver a speech at a healthcare conference sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald, a Wall Street investment bank?
I don’t think so, at least not for most of the reasons o... |
b160bcf34731ac0d1ffbe9dc1f4c2a3e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-obamacare-fight-gets-dirtier-20130919-story.html | Debunking the latest creepy smear of Obamacare | Debunking the latest creepy smear of Obamacare
The battle over healthcare reform legislation has always been as much about politics as policy. So it’s not surprising that, as full implementation of the law approaches, the tactics are looking more and more like the last-ditch smears of a failing campaign.
And to think t... |
589cac933723e56f24646e223a817b10 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-palos-verdes-surfer-gang-injunctions-20160330-story.html | Opinion: Gang injunction? Not if you’re an affluent surf thug in Palos Verdes | Opinion: Gang injunction? Not if you’re an affluent surf thug in Palos Verdes
When a group of thugs terrorizes a Los Angeles neighborhood — intimidating outsiders, vandalizing property, assaulting innocent people — authorities have been quick to respond with gang injunctions that target the individual members and crimi... |
d5c68c5b19944c9438f15b32d757cc68 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-progressive-left-war-free-speech-20140604-story.html | Opinion: The left’s war on free speech | Opinion: The left’s war on free speech
Freedom of speech used to be a quintessential liberal cause.
That quintessential liberal advocacy organization, the American Civil Liberties Union, prided itself on defending the 1st Amendment right of even the most marginal and disliked of groups to express their views: neo-Nazis... |
39664b7ebb5dbbf2eab4d6171772b7a8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-rall-construction-workers-california-20140903-story.html | Opinion: This is no way to treat construction workers | Opinion: This is no way to treat construction workers
New research reveals that 1 out of 6 construction workers in the state of California are either working off the books or are misreported as independent contractors rather than employees.
“Some 39,800 workers were misclassified.... An additional 104,100 workers weren... |
83b8fc7e5287708943a29b07af6f727e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-rall-drought-california-jerry-brown-20140122-story.html | In California’s drought emergency, Gov. Brown declares the obvious | In California’s drought emergency, Gov. Brown declares the obvious
Now that 2013 has gone down as the driest calendar year in 119 years of California rainfall records, Gov. Jerry Brown has officially declared a drought emergency, asking Californians to reduce their water usage by 20%.
Times columnist George Skelton pre... |
dac55c15c0385e8fecff6ca804fb7a64 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-rall-unaffordable-housing-20141105-story.html | Opinion: Here’s how, despite soaring housing costs, people continue to live in L.A. | Opinion: Here’s how, despite soaring housing costs, people continue to live in L.A.
Southern California has always had one of the priciest real estate markets in the United States, but in recent years the gap between what people can afford to pay for rent or mortgage and median housing prices has become a gaping chasm.... |
80591c61b2f5fdd055cac95b54701f90 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-roberts-campaign-supremecourt-20131009-story.html | On campaign contributions, don’t split the baby, Mr. Chief Justice | On campaign contributions, don’t split the baby, Mr. Chief Justice
Going into Tuesday’s Supreme Court oral argument, supporters of limits on campaign contributions were afraid, very afraid, that a majority of the court would signal that it was ready to declare them unconstitutional. Based on questions and comments from... |
d4949b2d8efb3f7898f383fb9bf13905 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-robin-roberts-out-duck-dynasty-20131230-story.html | GMA’s Robin Roberts comes out -- still a big deal in age of ‘Duck Dynasty’ | GMA’s Robin Roberts comes out -- still a big deal in age of ‘Duck Dynasty’
When “Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts posted a Facebook message on Sunday expressing gratitude for all the support she got during her long and much-publicized recovery from a bone marrow transplant, that was hardly news. She’s talked... |
816367a93f5ebd94f573565a60cdc7c4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-robin-williams-death-readers-react-20140812-story.html | Readers React: An outpouring of grief -- and compassion -- for Robin Williams | Readers React: An outpouring of grief -- and compassion -- for Robin Williams
When Robin Williams’ death was announced Monday afternoon, the crush of letters that usually arrives after major news breaks took several hours to materialize. Perhaps the shock of losing such a seminal and beloved figure in entertainment so ... |
102d26a63ac6e050f094bd26a91c81da | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-san-bernardino-chatter-day-2-20151203-htmlstory.html | Opinion: San Bernardino shooting just opened up a can of worms far bigger than gun control | Opinion: San Bernardino shooting just opened up a can of worms far bigger than gun control
Yesterday’s shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, which authorities have blamed on slain suspects Syed Rezwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, has grave implications beyond the traumatizing effects on families invol... |
18cb3a7bb5ade990d2490e180680239a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-san-bernardino-shooting-readers-react-20151203-story.html | Readers React: That period of nonpolitical mourning after a shooting? We’re past that now | Readers React: That period of nonpolitical mourning after a shooting? We’re past that now
Fourteen people are dead in San Bernardino, shot by two masked gunmen who showed up armed to an office holiday party and opened fire. It’s the deadliest such among the many since 28 people, most of them kindergartners and first-gr... |
3e397308e4c5e92db2df7dc60f1e8a6e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-scalise-race-whites-20141231-story.html | Opinion: Could there be a benign ‘European American’ group? No | Opinion: Could there be a benign ‘European American’ group? No
One of the more interesting questions about House Majority Whip Steve Scalise’s speech to a group of “white nationalists” 12 years ago is whether the name of the organization should have given him pause. (Interesting, but irrelevant if you believe he knew o... |
3dcc49ce8c297b2a8463b0eb34c8f0a7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-secular-parenting-zuckerman-morrison-video-recap-20150225-story.html | Opinión: Can kids be good without God? Might they actually be better? A professor says yes | Opinión: Can kids be good without God? Might they actually be better? A professor says yes
Cheer up, secular parents: Despite the benefits often associated with being religious -- comfort in knowing there’s an afterlife, easily accessible communities that can quickly come to our aid and more -- you can (and many of you... |
e09945978fced9853669c913644200b8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-serra-saint-20150116-story.html | Opinion: What California Indians lost under Junipero Serra, soon to be saint | Opinion: What California Indians lost under Junipero Serra, soon to be saint
Is there a word for the extinction of cultures? Not the people of those cultures, but the cultures themselves?
I ask because one of the notable consequences of the California mission movement founded by and overseen by Father Junipero Serra wa... |
e358b6d1fa39414b5241285456c16778 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-sex-with-glass-google-glass-app-20140121-story.html | Sex With Glass app promises a brave new naked world of ... humiliation | Sex With Glass app promises a brave new naked world of ... humiliation
What do you get when you combine Google Glass, “selfies” and sex? Yep, a new app called Sex With Glass.
Oh, Lord, please don’t let Kim and Kanye get a hold of this one!
Now, the L.A. Times is a family newspaper, and a serious newspaper, so (spoiler ... |
c89cbb573d099bde8b9a5961be6c9b49 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-sex-workers-end-violence-december-17-20131216-story.html | Are sex workers’ lives worth less than everyone else’s? | Are sex workers’ lives worth less than everyone else’s?
On Tuesday, sex worker activists will gather to mark the 11th annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Vigils in New York, Los Angeles and around the world will be held to highlight the everyday violence sex workers face and to honor those who... |
c3a93ad6d62466d7edc600b2f1318da5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-sochi-olympics-kill-stray-dogs-20140206-story.html | Sochi officials, killing stray dogs is no way to host the Olympics | Sochi officials, killing stray dogs is no way to host the Olympics
We expect cities hosting the Olympic Games to take extreme measures to be presentable and safe for the world to descend on, but Sochi’s mass killing of stray dogs is appalling.
Many European cities have a problem with roaming cats or dogs: a stray, unst... |
a324e7a6d59cfdf0564a640cb0b9ce4e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-srirachi-might-relocate-anywhere-but-texas-20140421-story.html | Opinion: Sriracha might relocate? Anywhere but Texas | Opinion: Sriracha might relocate? Anywhere but Texas
Huy Fong Foods, maker of the famous Sriracha chili sauce, is considering leaving the city of Irwindale, and maybe even California, after the City Council declared the spicy odors from the company’s factory a public nuisance.
And of course, Texas is among the first st... |
2df4b3507260fd02a5592709480adf12 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-syria-chemical-weapons-the-phony-red-line-20130823-story.html | Enough with the phony ‘red line’ on chemical weapons in Syria | Enough with the phony ‘red line’ on chemical weapons in Syria
Are some atrocities worse than others? Or, is dead just dead?
This week, Syrian opposition forces claimed that the government of Bashar Assad had used chemical weapons against its own people, killing scores -- men, women and children -- in a Damascus suburb.... |
d997e5743b5779b593b6ef5651dae17e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-tesla-battery-subsidies-manufacturing-jobs-unemployment-20140606-story.html | Opinion: Can California afford Tesla, and will Tesla want California? | Opinion: Can California afford Tesla, and will Tesla want California?
State lawmakers from both parties want Elon Musk to know that they’re ready to open the checkbook to persuade Tesla Motors to put its “gigafactory” battery plant in California. The thing is, it’s not their checkbook, it’s yours.
But maybe they should... |
8fb585a8e68a416387a55f090264118d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-thanksgiving-history-children-20131126-story.html | How to talk to your children about Thanksgiving’s ugly history | How to talk to your children about Thanksgiving’s ugly history
This week, schoolchildren across the country will come home from elementary and preschool armed with cutout paper turkeys and stories excitedly recounted about the first Thanksgiving, all those years ago in Plymouth, Mass. At school, most will learn the tra... |
bd349312a17fa0bcfc1d69d34f5063ea | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-the-paris-carnage-extends-the-range-of-isis-s-vicious-lunacy-20151114-story.html | Opinion: Paris carnage extends the range of Islamic State’s vicious lunacy | Opinion: Paris carnage extends the range of Islamic State’s vicious lunacy
I sat Friday night in the dining room in front of my laptop, the TV in the next room flitting among experts and speculators about what happened in Paris, while a freshly made mincemeat pie and two loaves of pumpkin bread cooled on a nearby kitch... |
6da79f38010bfe5e5accc333dcb985b5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-trump-dossier-buzzfeed-sessions-20170111-story.html | Opinion: Stop publishing unverified information, you numbskulls. Donald Trump feeds on your rumors | Opinion: Stop publishing unverified information, you numbskulls. Donald Trump feeds on your rumors
In the midst of Sen. Jeff Session’s confirmation hearing for attorney general and hours before President Obama’s final address yesterday, Buzzfeed News published an “unverified dossier,” which overshadowed both. The docum... |
0aa5f2686053ff34262e302eb8513573 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-trump-immigration-border-visa-20170227-story.html | Opinion: We’re seeing the results of Trump’s new border enforcement system. They aren’t pretty | Opinion: We’re seeing the results of Trump’s new border enforcement system. They aren’t pretty
It’s been five weeks since Donald J. Trump took the oath of office after waging a campaign of fear, and the nation is seeing the results. They aren’t pretty and, in many cases, undercut basic standards of decency, American pe... |
5f01f20d9f2a1683abeb27612fc740dd | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-trump-intelligence-nazi-dossier-buzzfeed-20170111-story.html | Column: Trump just compared the U.S. intelligence community to Nazi Germany. Let that sink in | Column: Trump just compared the U.S. intelligence community to Nazi Germany. Let that sink in
For a few days, it almost looked as if Donald Trump had made a tenuous peace with U.S. intelligence agencies over their unwelcome finding that Russia’s Vladimir Putin had tried to help his presidential campaign.
But it didn’t ... |
f0ba9950fbbc57827597c4f945291648 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-trump-ryan-mccain-obama-20160803-snap-story.html | Opinion: What more does Donald Trump have to do before GOP leaders denounce him? | Opinion: What more does Donald Trump have to do before GOP leaders denounce him?
How much easier does Donald Trump have to make it before House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and U.S. Sen. John McCain finally withdraw their endorsements of a Republican nominee who, as The Times editorial board said back in March, is un... |
ed51532bfbcbcffe499caf2df28c18ad | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-uaw-labor-vw-norquist-right-to-work-globalism-20140213-story.html | Will VW’s Tennessee workers say yes to the UAW? Let’s hope so. | Will VW’s Tennessee workers say yes to the UAW? Let’s hope so.
Thursday is the second of three days of a union-organizing vote at Volkswagen’s Tennessee auto assembly plant, and it’s being tracked like a congressional special election. Is it a bellwether for the state of modern labor? Or is it a one-off that says nothi... |
360e97b06824f9e3300053b033c28976 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-uber-lyft-nasty-tactics-20140813-story.html | Opinion: Uber and Lyft’s nasty tactics don’t help their cause | Opinion: Uber and Lyft’s nasty tactics don’t help their cause
Really, now, Uber and Lyft. Tsk, tsk.
I thought the “sharing economy” was supposed to be on the up and up, all kumbaya and mutual respect.
Instead, the two leading dial-a-ride companies seem to be warring with business tactics that Don Draper would relish in... |
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