By Daoud Kuttab
Its deterrence policy in Gaza only feeds the cycle of violence.
By Jonah Goldberg
He could show some leadership on the state of the black family, and the American family in general.
By Jim Newton
Just how responsible is the L.A. Department of Water and Power for the area's air quality, and how much should it be required to do to fix the problem?
By Daniel Akst
We all feel for you — my pals parchment, clay tablet, cave walls, the whole gang. But as technology marches on, it's time to move out of the way.
By Charlotte Allen
She's hot, she's blue collar, she's electable.
By Doyle McManus
They were an endangered species in Congress even before this year's election. Now they're even closer to extinction.
By Paul VanDevelder
You red states want to secede? Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
By Barbara Garson
With climate change, eventually more people will be living in blackout zones. How do we fix that when it's disturbingly easy to forget all about them?
By Bruce Ackerman
We should be shifting from taxes on corporations and income to taxes on pollution, wealth and consumption.
By Patt Morrison
Because of people like Tara Kolla, laws have changed to permit farming, of a sort, all around town.
By Jonathan Zimmerman
Did the ex-CIA director's affair threaten national security? Not likely.
By Seth Andre Myers
The United States is woefully unprepared to patrol and secure this vital region.
By Sarah Chayes
Obama should seize this chance to adjust his foreign policy.
By Michael Kinsley
The television networks know who's going to win the vote and more or less how it's going to play out, county by county.
By Meghan Daum
The era of old, crotchety white male dominance may be coming to an end. But it won't matter much until the women that replace them are allowed to get old and crotchety too.
By Ted Rall
By Doyle McManus
The president should seek out new talent as he enters his second term.
By Lewis MacAdams
NBC Universal's plan for a major expansion represents an opportunity to accomplish much, much more for Los Angeles.
By Patt Morrison
Roth earned his 2012 Nobel Prize in economics for market design and matching theory — creating ways to pair 'buyers' and 'sellers' happily and fairly when price isn't a primary consideration.
By Harold Meyerson
The demographics of California's congressional delegation tell it all: a broad ethnic and racial mix for the Democrats, and solid white male for the Republicans.
By Max Boot
David Petraeus' intellectualism was crucial to the U.S. military. Now the nation loses his skills.
By Jonah Goldberg
There are signs of dismay and despair among Republicans but none of surrender.
By Jim Newton
The L.A. mayoral hopeful hopes to become the candidate of business.
By Jack Shakely
Some for-profit schools take advantage of GI Bill veterans, wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars without educating them.
By Cynthia Barnett
Even at Hoover Dam, the ugly truth about our water crisis is being ignored.
By Doyle McManus
What the GOP once used to divide now unites Democrats.
The Times asked a few pundits and prognosticators to talk about how they arrived at their predictions and why they got them right — or wrong.
By John Johnson
A volunteer who traveled to Las Vegas to help the campaign comes away with admiration for its scope and efficiency.
By Hinda Mandell
Opening a captured copy of 'Mein Kampf' starts a new story.
By Timothy Garton Ash
You think the United States has problems? Take a closer look at China.
By Mike Johnson
The Boy Scouts of America has always insisted on protecting young people, though admittedly it hasn't always succeeded. But it has strong guidelines in place.
By Doyle McManus
The success of his next term will depend on what lessons the two parties take from the election.
By Meghan Daum
If 'women hold up half the sky,' single women hold up two-thirds of the Obama administration. But it behooves election observers to be open about what that voting bloc means.
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