Perspectives

Harry Potter explores life’s big questions

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  Parents who take their children to see the Harry Potter films enjoy a fun family night. But unless they dig deeper into the stories, parents miss a great opportunity to explore life’s biggest issues with their children...

The silent jobless

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Jobs are slowly coming back, but that’s small comfort to more than 13 million Americans who remain unemployed. For every current job opening, four people are still looking for a job. Many others have given up even trying to find work...

Journalistic stings go mainstream

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Here’s a problem of professional ethics right out of today’s headlines: If a news organization prohibits its own staff from using certain reporting techniques — say, deception — should it publish information that somebody else gathered using those forbidden ...

Winds of change in the Middle East

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On Feb. 11, 1979, Islamic revolutionaries took power in Tehran. On Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden and his al- Qaida terrorists launched their attacks on New York and Washington, killing nearly 3,000 Americans. On Feb. 11, 2011, Hosni Mubarak resigned as president of...

Idolatry of Ronald Reagan doesn’t square with his history

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Ronald Reagan, one of America's least-known liberals...

U.S. needs to be on side of Egyptian people

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I’m Egyptian, and like every other Egyptian person I know, I have been mesmerized and inspired by the images of the Egyptian people rising up...

Health care, one more time

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On the most important domestic issues of the day, our two political parties don’t merely lay out competing arguments; they inhabit alternative realities...

Shooting from the lip

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The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Monday, Jan. 10...

FCC breaks Obama’s promise on net neutrality

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On Dec. 21, the FCC passed new rules — written by corporations — that will end net neutrality. For the first time in history, the U.S. government approved corporate censorship of the Internet, putting the future of online free speech at risk. Unbelievably, the person...

A challenge to end childhood hunger

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Improving access to quality education is the single greatest investment we can make in our country, but for children to succeed in the classroom, we must first make sure their basic needs are met...

Amendments 60, 61 and 101 would be disastrous

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Natalie Menten, the voice behind the uber-libertarian movement to pass Amendments 60 and 61, as well as Proposition 101, has accused the groups working to stop those measures of using overblown scare tactics and deception to win support...

Attack on 14th Amendment: It%uFFFDs wrong

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  by Gregory Rodriguez...