Paul Schimmel doesn't need much encouragement to squire a guest around the Museum of Contemporary Art's galleries, which he does with the...
Sen. Joe Lieberman insists on pushing ahead with a Senate inquiry into the mass murder at Ft. Hood, despite White House...
Since its inception in 2003, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief -- PEPFAR -- has become the largest public health program in...
An occasional series of editorials and Op-Eds on the crisis confronting California.
The editorial board discusses the rationale for a healthcare overhaul and the competing proposals to...
Levi Johnston: He's hot, he's cute, he's playing hardball - November 19, 2009
The American way: Smile if you're insecure - November 16, 2009
The new anniversary exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art is not only cause for celebrating the financial stabilization of an...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's inauguration today will be a somber affair. Gray storm clouds are slowly replacing the blue skies, and the...
On Afghanistan's independence day in August, my friends in Kandahar were puzzled. Why was the government bothering to celebrate the holiday?...
I'm not proud of this, but I sort of love Levi Johnston. I know he's an opportunistic buffoon. I know he's a grammatically challenged,...
Sarah Palin has a talent for reinvention. Since her first campaign in 1992, she's gone through a wardrobe full of political personas....
The University of California system is one of America's greatest public institutions. There is virtually no significant branch of human...
The temperature was close to zero Monday as I left the house to buy Sarah Palin's memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life." The book was...
Almost three years ago, in the glow of a decisive reelection victory, Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed himself a "post-partisan" leader...
It still doesn't have a name. But this week, L.A. County will try to sell the University of California Board of Regents on a plan to...
I get where President Obama and Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. are coming from. They think that if we change our way of life, the...
It has been a year and a half since the Supreme Court ended the nationwide moratorium on lethal injections, finding that Kentucky's three-...
Six years ago, during a trip to the Middle East, I asked an Israeli playwright what his country's cinematic equivalent was to the American...
Arguably the two most important foreign policy speeches given by Barack Obama since becoming president are his June address in Cairo and...
Artist Peter Shelton didn't have anything terribly controversial in mind when he created "sixbeaststwomonkeys" -- that's "six beasts, two...
Barack Obama is in danger of giving deliberation a bad name.
In a Republican Party hoping to rebound in 2010 on the strength of a newly energized and ideologically aroused conservative grass roots,...
The envelope was postmarked Budapest, Aug. 25, 2004, and it arrived in my Jerusalem office about a week later. It contained more than a...
Sometimes cartoonists are clever, lighthearted cutups. Other times we labor over life-and-death matters, solemnly assessing senseless...
To employ catchphrases from two Teutonic giants -- Heidi Klum and Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Lifetime TV's "Project Runway," which wraps up...
When Neil Armstrong stepped on the lunar surface and announced, "We came in peace for all mankind," it marked a fundamental break with...
The world may not end two years from now, despite Internet predictions and this week's blockbuster disaster movie, "2012." On screen, the...
On July 27, 2006, Fidel Castro nearly died during emergency intestinal surgery to stem internal bleeding caused by chronic diverticulitis....
Both left- and right-wing accounts of the mass murder at Ft. Hood are haunted by the specter of "political correctness."
As President Kennedy pondered the risks of accidental war in the nuclear age -- a nightmare he would confront head on in the Cuban missile...
Here's a radical notion: Let's rethink the cult of homeownership in America.
There is a profound difference between watchfulness and a witch hunt.
President Obama will have a lot on his agenda when he visits China this week as part of his four-nation Asia trip. He wants to strengthen...
Ithought I knew the cost of combat. I recommended plans to spend billions of dollars in Afghanistan from my desk at the White House Office...
Fifty-nine Americans died in October fighting to protect the corrupt Afghan electoral process that resulted in a second five-year term...
