Opinion: A budget proposal tells you how the GOP rates crime and police
For all your leadership instability, a common refrain echoed almost daily by congressional Republicans is that we have a crime…
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Set college costs based on what graduates are likely to earn
I was caught off guard when my son initially brought up the idea of not going to college. His mother…
Protests at USC and other campuses are not inherently noble
The current campus demonstrations are a reminder that, of all the mossy clichés and smug pieties of polite (and impolite)…
Closing California prisons should be the easiest budget cut
California faces a multibillion-dollar budget shortfall that will require lawmakers and the governor to make painful decisions. No one wants…
88 years later, “Migrant Mother” is still a reality on Skid Row
To the editor: Her article and her photographs showing the reality of children and their parents living on Skid Row…
To those who criticize the protests: would you prefer that the students not care?
To the editor: The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. Students peacefully…
Opposing opinions on Proposition 47 and a new 'tough on crime' ballot measure
To the editor: UC San Francisco professor Meghan Morris is asking voters to reject a tough-on-crime ballot measure because it…
Opinion: USC Graduating Students and Their Parents Should Have Had
Last weekend as a parent, and 36 years ago as a student, I went to Michigan Stadium to be among…
Editorial: Biden's Marijuana Plan May Finally End 'Reefer Madness'
The US Drug Enforcement Administration plans to reclassify marijuana from the most restrictive category (Schedule I, along with heroin) to…
Claire Messud combines truth and fiction in the story of her French Algerian family
Book Review The strange and eventful story: a novel By Claire MessudWW Norton & Company: 448 pages, $29.99If you buy…