Debt, deficits and delays

The judge shortage

A vacancy crisis threatens our federal judiciary. With 108 open trial and appellate court positions across the country — nearly...

Send the North a message

North Korea's string of provocations over the last nine months calls into question America's decisions over the last decade on the number...

WikiLeaks doesn't tell all

The headlines from the WikiLeaks dump of thousands of not-very-classified State Department cables have focused, understandably, on the...

Back from the brink

For four days at the end of last month, I was unconscious. After a week fighting an illness I thought was the flu, I'd ended up in an...

Where are the police we paid for?

When the City Council voted to raise trash fees in 2006, the action came with a promise to Angelenos that the money would be put toward...

A time for clemency

"The state of California may be about to execute an innocent man." That is the warning of Judge William Fletcher of the U.S. 9th Circuit...

Hate under cloak of religion

The Southern Poverty Law Center is an organization with deep roots in the civil rights movement. Its ingenious lawsuits helped break the...

A banquet of secrets

It is the historian's dream. It is the diplomat's nightmare. Here, for all to see, are the confidences of friends, allies and rivals,...

Hitting the North

Although North Korea's attack last week on the island of Yeonpyeong was the first time since the Korean War that it has directed artillery...

A WikiLeaks wakeup call

Washington is reeling from the latest WikiLeaks document dump. The foreign policy wonks insist that there are few, if any, major surprises....