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Missions accomplished in 2010

Missions accomplished in 2010

The wishes that came true this year for The Times' editorial board.

 

Enough agonizing, Mr. President

Editorial: Obama says he is struggling with whether to endorse same-sex marriage. We say, support marriage equality.

The Conversation: Homelessness

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Op-Ed

Obama is back -- squarely in the center

Obama is back -- squarely in the center

By Richard Wolffe

For someone who is supposedly cool and detached, President Obama has triggered outraged and outsized reactions on both sides of the...

Keeping L.A. safe

Keeping L.A. safe

By Tim Rutten

This week's news that Los Angeles is likely to finish the year with the fewest homicides in nearly half a century should be both a source of...

Jury's still out on justice in 2010

Jury's still out on justice in 2010

By Andrew Cohen

Perhaps the simplest thing to say about the law in 2010 is this: Never in America were so many judged by so few with such inconclusive...

The Cortines factor

The Cortines factor

By Jim Newton

Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. Ramon C. Cortines is the rare member of this region's body politic who has mastered the correct...

As gay becomes bourgeois

As gay becomes bourgeois

By Jonah Goldberg

So now openly gay soldiers get to fight and die in neocon-imperialist wars too?

Invest in higher education

Invest in higher education

By Erwin Chemerinsky

The proposals for the University of California now being considered in Sacramento — limiting tuition and fees, freezing executive...

Invading our privacy on the Internet

Invading our privacy on the Internet

By Jamie Court

Article 1 of California's Constitution broadly declares that privacy is among our inalienable rights. But the laws enforcing this right...

The corruption in Vernon

The corruption in Vernon

By Rick Cole

Until the Bell scandal, local government had largely escaped the disdain that voters reserve for Washington and Sacramento. Bell...

Surviving terrorism

Surviving terrorism

By Doyle McManus

A year ago, on Christmas Day, a young Nigerian named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to blow up a passenger jet in midair as it...

Fixing the economy the scientific way

Fixing the economy the scientific way

By Meryl Comer and Chris Mooney

Here are two facts that might seem unrelated: 1) Most Americans cannot name a living scientist. 2) Over the last two years, by far the...

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Editorials

Campus doors may reopen to ROTC

Campus doors may reopen to ROTC

With his signature last week, President Obama ended the military's distasteful policy of "don't ask, don't tell." In doing away with this...

Hold the applause

Hold the applause

If it is to become a great institution and a model for others around the country, the new downtown arts high school should train the most...

The Guantanamo 48

The Guantanamo 48

The Obama administration made it clear long ago that it intended to detain 48 Guantanamo inmates indefinitely and without trial. We have...

A parody of therapy

A parody of therapy

The picture says it all. Taken by Times photographer Rick Loomis, it neatly sums up the dysfunction of California's prison system. In the...

A nuclear Senate

A nuclear Senate

The U.S. Senate, once proudly known as the world's greatest deliberative body, has in recent years degenerated into something else: The...

A true city of angels?

A true city of angels?

The decline in violent crime in Los Angeles has been among this region's most gratifying and encouraging trends in recent years. But some...

Looking back at Schwarzenegger

Looking back at Schwarzenegger

The governor leaves office with a budget in desperate shape, but he set a new political course for California.

Holding out hope for Sudan

Holding out hope for Sudan

Anyone who has traveled to both the desert-like north of Sudan — where the capital city of Khartoum is located — and the flood-...

Ghosts of budgets past

Ghosts of budgets past

Christmas is a time to count our blessings, even when they're accompanied by hardship. The economy is slowly improving, the stock market has...

The flood this time?

The flood this time?

Earthquakes, wildfires and the odd outbreak of road rage ought to be sufficient cause for anxiety, and we have no desire to be alarmists. It...

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