AB 343 sounds like a tough new measure to crack down on abuse of animals at meatpacking plants and the like. It's not.
In a case involving a search by a drug-sniffing dog, the Supreme Court sides with the homeowner.
The United States needs to live up to its obligations and provide visas to those Iraqis and Afghans whose work with Americans has left them in danger.
The Supreme Court should rule broadly and strike down California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
California's fisheries appear to be on the comeback. But some in Congress are looking backward.
The leafy Northridge enclave is the site of a battle between developers who want to build an elder care facility and foes who say it will be an eyesore. At least the right questions are being asked.
Republicans have slammed Homeland Security for releasing 2,228 detainees. But the real question is why most of them were being held at all.
The response to a 'phone-hacking' scandal involving tabloids gives the government too much power.
A probable move to New York is sad reminder that no city is entertainment's capital any more.
The Senate's habit of filibustering judicial nominees must end. Both Republicans and Democrats are to blame.
Mixed verdicts in Bell might not have offered the clean sweep residents wanted, but they underpinned what everyone already believed: Appalling wrongs were done to the working-class city.
The debate over digital billboards comprises many issues of fairness, community rights and poor decision making. It also highlights disturbing questions of how law and policy are made in L.A.
A majority supports an assault weapons ban. But our history and culture get in the way.
The Supreme Court has forcefully declared that copyright law does not extend to prohibiting the resale of books bought overseas.
The U.S. Supreme Court should strike down Arizona's proof-of-citizenship requirement for voter registration.
L.A. County is right to determine exactly what the county's real jail needs will be.
Expectations are understandably low. But the U.S. must keep pressing for a two-state solution.
Congress should quickly change the law authorizing the FBI's 'national security letters' — which seek data on Americans' calls and emails — to give courts authority to review the letters' gag orders.
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple should not sign any of the legislature's half-dozen bills that seek to subvert a well-established constitutional right to abortion.
A California bill to allow the first 50 such courses takes pains to do things the right way.
States shouldn't stand in the way of cheaper versions of biologic drugs the FDA deems safe.
Latest drama should provide the impetus to figure out a way to get this important cultural institution off its historic roller-coaster ride once and for all.
The country needs to protect them from poachers, and the world needs to stop the trade in ivory.
What does taking the company off the market mean for a proposed downtown football stadium? The City Council should find out.
Arizona's effort to ban a Mexican American program was upheld. But legal doesn't mean it's smart.
Sen. Paul Ryan's proposed overhaul may be going too far, but he is raising the kinds of questions that Congress should be dealing with.
Based on his career as a bishop in Argentina, he can be expected to support the 'preferential option for the poor.' That impression is strengthened by his choice of a name; St. Francis of Assisi loved the poor and disdained pomp and ceremony.
Her attempt to paint her mayoral rival as anti-union doesn't wash.
Obama wants the government to fund a free year of pre-kindergarten, but studies don't back up his claims of long-term benefits.
New proposals by Republicans and Democrats offer partisan posturing, not realistic solutions.
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