Oysters, or not

Oysters, or not

Every year, about 15 people die after eating raw oysters tainted with a bacterium that has no effect on healthy diners but can be deadly...

The AMA's reversal on marijuana

For all the debate over whether marijuana has medicinal value, arguments that the drug has significant palliative properties or that it...

 

UC on the brink

Sorry to say, the University of California Board of Regents took the easiest route possible out of its crushing financial dilemma Thursday...

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New view of mammograms

New view of mammograms

Everyone who knows the prevailing medical wisdom on hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women, please stand up.

Fixing the music royalties system

Fixing the music royalties system

The founders gave Congress the power to bestow on authors and inventors exclusive rights to the use of their work, and those rights have...

Jerry Brown's 'secrets' cases

Jerry Brown's 'secrets' cases

California's attorney general and prospective Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Jerry Brown, is trapped in a political cage from which...

Church, state and gay marriage

Church, state and gay marriage

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is warning the District of Columbia Council that the church will stop...

Toward a federal 'shield law' for journalists

Toward a federal 'shield law' for journalists

After some unsettling equivocation, the Obama administration has embraced a Senate bill that would offer limited protections to reporters...

The 'bling ring' and the Constitution

The 'bling ring' and the Constitution

Aman's home may be his castle, but few of us -- even celebrities -- have moats these days to protect our privacy. That was true long before...

Time for a ruling on judge

Time for a ruling on judge

Eight months after President Obama nominated him to the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, a jurist from Indiana may finally have a chance...

Obama is right to acknowledge China's might

Obama is right to acknowledge China's might

On his first official visit to Asia, President Obama has sought to reassure China that the United States does not want to contain its rise,...

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Atlantic bluefin tuna:

Under the chamber's cyber-skin

Under the chamber's cyber-skin

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has emerged in recent years as a vigorous proponent of strong intellectual-...

One nation, insured

One nation, insured

As healthcare reform legislation advances in Congress, more state lawmakers are looking for ways to limit its effects on their constituents....

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Subway:

Are CalPERS' hands clean?

Are CalPERS' hands clean?

It's not yet clear whether the California Public Employees' Retirement System, better known as CalPERS, has engaged in the same kind of pay-...

Plan for Mohammed's trial upholds U.S. values

Plan for Mohammed's trial upholds U.S. values

To predictable criticism, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Friday that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed...

Saving young victims of the sex trade

Autumn is the beginning of a dangerous season for the youngest victims of the sex trade. Sports championships,...

The L.A. City Council must end the fight over ending the city controller-city attorney fight

The L.A. City Council must end the fight over ending the city controller-city attorney fight

The endless loop that is the Los Angeles city controller-city attorney dispute returns on Tuesday to the City Council, which has the power...

The Eastside's new Gold Line

The Eastside's new Gold Line

It's hard to build public transit projects in Los Angeles under the best of circumstances, but the Gold Line light-rail spur from Union...

Saving the bluefin tuna

Saving the bluefin tuna

Europeans love to diss the selective environmentalism of Americans. And they have a point, given this nation's lax attitude about many toxic...

Christmas carols -- or else

Christmas carols -- or else

In recent years, the Christmas season has been associated as much with political and legal squabbles as with mistletoe, street-corner...

Fixing foreign aid

Fixing foreign aid

Poverty, famine and disease overseas lead to lawlessness, instability, revolution and terrorism that threaten American interests, and...

Giving hedge fund investors a full accounting

Giving hedge fund investors a full accounting

The federal jury that acquitted two Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers of securities fraud this week...

LAUSD's goal should be better schools

LAUSD's goal should be better schools

The Los Angeles Unified School District is trying to make the transition from a centralized bureaucracy that dictates the minutiae of...

Healing our troubled vets

Healing our troubled vets

The public is kinder to its veterans today than it was during the Vietnam War, when soldiers risked their lives overseas only to face...

The W. and Bill no-show

The W. and Bill no-show

Debate is a venerable oratorical form, a verbal art, if you will. It's a shame that the modern incarnation of debate -- the anger-fraught,...

Bailing out GMAC

Bailing out GMAC

Ayear after the Big Three implored Congress to save their industry from collapse, the fortunes of U.S....

Guarding the ranks

Guarding the ranks

Did Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the accused gunman in Thursday's rampage at Ft. Hood, Texas, commit mass murder because of a mental...

'Sesame Street' turns 40

'Sesame Street' turns 40

Today's episode of “Sesame Street” is brought to you by the number 40. The...

Lessons for LAUSD

Lessons for LAUSD

It's hard to imagine a more trying time for students and teachers at the Los Angeles Unified School District. Even more difficult is...

Healthcare's hurdles

Healthcare's hurdles

The House passed a sweeping healthcare reform bill Saturday despite the opposition of as well as 39...

'Cool cars' backfire

'Cool cars' backfire

There's a law of diminishing returns for environmental regulation: As more specific rules are applied to ever-smaller details, the negative...