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Healthcare reform, objectively

Healthcare reform, objectively

Backgrounder: What would pending legislation mean for Americans? Douglas Kmiec poses some questions; The Times' Jon Healey provides the answers.

No way to treat a friend

By Max Boot

Why is the Obama administration so hard on Israel when it's so soft on its despotic neighbors?

 
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Cold Copy: From Kaisercare to Hillarycare -- a history of editorials on healthcare

Cold Copy: From Kaisercare to Hillarycare -- a history of editorials on healthcare
Opinion L.A.: Even for an insurance company, this is evil

Opinion L.A.: Even for an insurance company, this is evil
Blowback archive

Blowback archive: Education magic bullets are often blanks

Op-Ed

The gulf in the Persian Gulf

The gulf in the Persian Gulf

By Judith Miller

Israel, understandably, is fixated on what most of its leaders consider an existential threat: Iran's attempt to acquire a nuclear bomb.

Stop the bleeding in California

Stop the bleeding in California

By Harold Meyerson

As Congress finally prepares to vote on healthcare reform -- the culmination of a battle begun 65 years ago when Harry Truman sent the first...

Rielle's manifest destiny

Rielle's manifest destiny

By Meghan Daum

Rielle Hunter's nearly 10,000-word GQ interview plus cringe-

American history -- right and left

American history -- right and left

By Jonathan Zimmerman

Once upon a time, Americans did some very bad things. They enslaved Africans, displaced Indians, oppressed women and exploited laborers....

Why glorify the murderers?

Why glorify the murderers?

By Ron Kehrmann, Yossi Mendelevich and Yossi Zur

Vice President Joe Biden took umbrage last week when Israel announced during his visit that it had approved new housing construction in East...

A spiritual journey into L.A.'s gang culture

By Tim Rutten

In my business, there are few sounds more ominous than that of a good friend's book landing on your desk. When that friend isn't a...

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Editorials

30/10 does the job

30/10 does the job

When Los Angeles County voters agreed in 2008 to raise their sales taxes to improve local public transit, they may not have considered...

An up-or-down vote

An up-or-down vote

Opponents of comprehensive healthcare reform have achieved something remarkable, if not necessarily admirable: Having stopped the...

Students as dollar signs

Students as dollar signs

In January, Beverly Hills Unified School District voted to expel hundreds of students who attend its schools but live outside its boundaries...

Countering the cartels

Countering the cartels

The decomposing bodies of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent and his pilot are discovered wrapped in plastic bags at a ranch about...

Greening the DWP

Greening the DWP

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has a knack for being incredibly right and unbelievably wrong at exactly the same moment and on precisely the...

Slow steps to high-speed broadband

The National Broadband Plan that the Federal Communications Commission released Tuesday is ambitious in the right way, staking out such...

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