A young mountain lion was shot and killed in Santa Monica on May 22, 2012. It was hard to believe he was on 2nd Street. What happened to bring him here? Did the authorities do […]

The assumption of almost anyone interested in politics has all along been that Republican Mitt Romney stands virtually no chance of carrying California in his bid to unseat President Obama. The candidate himself made that […]

We’ll get to a better definition of “sustainable” in just a moment. For now, imagine that everything you dispose of in just one week has been assembled into a neat pile. That’s solid waste or […]

The results are now in, and this week’s primary election appears to have given voters exactly what they wanted: a whole bunch of fall runoff contests that figure to be decided not by extreme partisans […]

It’s difficult to write about horrible things and to expect others to read about them, especially when they are the heartbreaking residues of war. With history as our lesson book, we should by now be […]

Doug Liman, director of “The Bourne Identity,” “Swingers,” and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” is directing a film about torture, specifically government-sanctioned torture. He and I talked about making the film, Reckoning With Torture. Here is […]

Neither Proposition 28 nor 29 on Tuesday’s ballot aroused any significant emotion – and maybe that’s why the limited proposition action in this primary resulted in one smashing victory and one very close call. Term […]