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Diagnosis as disease

Diagnosis as disease

By H. Gilbert Welch

Physicians are now making diagnoses in individuals who wouldn't have been considered sick in the past, and it's raising healthcare costs.

 

Losing Superman

By Ariel Dorfman

If the Man of Steel renounces his U.S. citizenship, he'll gain new arch-enemies.

Animal welfare: California's black bears dodge another bullet

Animal welfare: California's black bears dodge another bullet
Illinois ditches program intended to deport dangerous immigrants

Illinois ditches program intended to deport dangerous immigrants
Doyle McManus: Al Qaeda's very bad year

Doyle McManus: Al Qaeda's very bad year

Letters to the Editor

A memorial to Marines at Camp Pendleton; proposed health insurance rate increases in California; GOP plans overhaul Medicare

A memorial to Marines at Camp Pendleton; proposed health insurance rate increases in California; GOP plans overhaul Medicare

President Obama and the killing of Osama bin Laden; Big Oil's profits; the Israeli-Palestinian peace process

Readers react to the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden


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Nothing defensible about DOMA

Help California students by increasing UC tuition

Israel's bogus narrative on Palestinian refugees

Jeb Bush: Florida law brings teaching into the 21st century


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Editorials

Death row's delays

Death row's delays

Last year, California added 28 inmates to the state's death row, eight of whom were sentenced in Los Angeles County. They aren't in much...

Gunning for Bin Laden

Gunning for Bin Laden

It might seem churlish to second-guess a military operation that removed a master terrorist from the face of the Earth. But conflicting...

Politics in the shadows

Politics in the shadows

Offering specious arguments about free speech and intimidation, Republicans are trying to derail an executive order by the Obama...

California budget: Sticking it to the GOP

California budget: Sticking it to the GOP

If Republican lawmakers insist on balancing the state budget solely through spending cuts, their districts should bear the brunt of the...

Shortsighted supervisors

Shortsighted supervisors

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has every right to insist on the obedience of its employees, but in the latest, complicated flap...

Let's make a deal on foreclosures in California

Let's make a deal on foreclosures in California

It's been five years since the U.S. housing bubble burst, triggering a downward spiral in the credit...

'Parent trigger' limbo

'Parent trigger' limbo

Right now California's so-called parent trigger law, which allows parents at low-performing schools to force a change in their school's...

After Osama bin Laden

After Osama bin Laden

The dramatic killing of Osama bin Laden after a 40-minute gun battle in a Pakistani hill station mansion is, as President Obama rightly...

Ruling revives Blackwater shooting case

Ruling revives Blackwater shooting case

A federal appeals court has revived the manslaughter prosecution of four Blackwater security guards who were charged after a 2007...

Southern California's great migration

Southern California's great migration

According to the latest census data, there's been a great migration in Southern California over the last decade — a movement that...

The end of Osama bin Laden

The end of Osama bin Laden

With Sunday night's announcement, President Obama concluded one of the most protracted, tense and unhappy periods in U.S. history. For a...

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Op-Ed

Doyle McManus: Al Qaeda's very bad year

Al Qaeda's very bad year

By Doyle McManus

More than the death of Osama bin Laden, the spread of democracy in the Arab world is depriving the terrorist movement of its reason for...

With Afghanistan, a moment of opportunity for Obama

With Afghanistan, a moment of opportunity for Obama

By Tom Hayden

President Obama has now gained the moral and political capital to responsibly end the U.S. military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq....

Meghan Daum: Bin Laden news, once removed

Meghan Daum: Bin Laden news, once removed

By Meghan Daum

When it emerged Sunday night that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan, some people thought I might not hear about...

Turkey's neighborhood troubles

Turkey's neighborhood troubles

By Henri J. Barkey

Syrian President Bashar Assad is in deep trouble. His murderous use of deadly force against his own citizens, reportedly killing hundreds,...

NPR's midlife moment

NPR's midlife moment

By Steve Oney

Forty years ago this week, a former television news correspondent inaugurated a momentous era in American journalism by speaking the...

Tim Rutten: Is Pope John Paul II fit for sainthood?

Is Pope John Paul II fit for sainthood?

By Tim Rutten

On Sunday, an estimated 1.5 million people crowded into St. Peter's Square and surrounding streets to celebrate the beatification of Karol...

Echoes of a bygone war

Echoes of a bygone war

By Adam Hochschild

For the last half a dozen years, I've been mentally living in the world of 1914-18, writing a book about World War I. I've haunted...

Bin Laden: The day of reckoning

Bin Laden: The day of reckoning

By Max Boot

In evaluating Osama bin Laden's dubious legacy, it is important to note that there was nothing new about religiously inspired terrorism when...

Al Qaeda without its leader

Al Qaeda without its leader

By Ahmed Rashid

Even as Westerners celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden, cities around the world are bracing for repercussions. Hundreds of dedicated...

Good guys, bad guys — and Miranda

Good guys, bad guys — and Miranda

By Tamar R. Birckhead

During oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in late March in the case of J.D.B. vs. North Carolina, Justice Stephen G. Breyer posed...

In L.A.'s mayoral race, it takes a coalition

In L.A.'s mayoral race, it takes a coalition

By Jim Newton

Los Angeles is a demanding city for those who would be mayor. In a city as diverse as this one, winning the office is not possible without...

Compassionate consumerism? Don't buy into it

Compassionate consumerism? Don't buy into it

By Gregory Rodriguez

Compassionate consumerism — as some critics describe today's hottest trend in philanthropy — encourages people to feel...

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