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Despite the Boston bombings, we're safer than we think
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the most frequently heard forecast was: "This changes everything." Americans would live in constant fear of the next attack, many pundits predicted. The desire for safety would spawn a security state that...
Tags: Pakistan, Timothy McVeigh, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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What did we learn from Iraq?
Ten years have passed since the United States invaded Iraq, a decision that almost everyone now ranks as one of the worst foreign policy blunders of our time. Why "almost"? Former President George W. Bush and his top aides still maintain that the invasion...
Tags: George W. Bush, Vietnam War (1955-1975), U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Condoleezza Rice
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For Democrats, unity and its pitfalls
It's hard to recognize the Democratic Party these days. In recent decades, it's been a divided, brawling tribe. But this year, Democrats are one big, happy family. Sure, there was grumbling from the left over President Barack Obama's agreement to keep...
Tags: John Boehner, Personal Weapon Control, Congressional Budget Office, Social Security, Medicare
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Your guide to the fiscal cliff
Are we about to go over a fiscal cliff? It's looking more likely, but it may not be as alarming as it sounds. Here are three things you need to know about the impending crisis over the so-called fiscal cliff, the combination of tax increases and...
Tags: John Boehner, Parties and Movements, Timothy Geithner, Medicare, Barack Obama
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People, not politicians, killed gun control
Politicians haven't always been allergic to gun control, not even Republicans. In 1968, after the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr., Congress — on a bipartisan vote — outlawed gun sales to felons and...
Tags: Richard Lugar, Mitt Romney, Social Sciences, Lobbying, Gun Control
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Tired of negative ads? They're just getting warmed up
When the Olympic Games began almost 30 centuries ago in ancient Greece, rulers of city-states proclaimed an "Olympic truce," a ban on warfare to allow athletes, poets and spectators to attend without getting speared. It would be nice to think that this...Tags: Polls, Mitt Romney, Republican National Conventions, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama
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Best and worst of this year's presidential ads
Today's topic: the billions (yes, with a "b") that will be spent on advertising in this year's presidential and congressional campaigns, and what kind of messages that money is sending. Like jazz, blues and musical comedy, the political ad is a...Tags: Mitt Romney, Americans for Prosperity, Karl Rove, Bain Capital, LLC, Music
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Where's the enemies list?
Who exactly is the enemy in the continuing U.S. war against terrorism? In some cases, the answer is: It's a secret. When the United States began its war against al-Qaida after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the identity of the enemy was clear: Osama...Tags: Somalia, Dick Durbin, George W. Bush, Bashar Assad, Terrorism
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Doyla McManus: U.S. keeping its distance as Syria heads for "long haul"
The civil war in Syria is heading in the wrong direction. In the last year, rebels had won control of big slices of territory, including much of the country's largest city, Aleppo. But those gains prompted a surge of military aid to Syrian President...Tags: Bashar Assad, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), National Government, Lebanon, Barack Obama
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Friday's TV Highlights: 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' on HBO.
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 19 - 25, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Invasion In this new series, wildlife...
Tags: Julianne Moore, Bobby Flay, Chris Pine, Mariah Carey, Katie McGrath
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Doyle McManus: Second-term scandal plague catches up to Obama
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...Tags: Justice System, Central Intelligence Agency, Taxation, Richard Nixon, Hillary Clinton
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Op-Ed, explained
TO SOME READERS, the Op-Ed page is a bit mysterious. I'll be at a cocktail party, or in the bleachers at a Little League game, and the guy next to me will begin asking questions about just what it is we're trying to do, and how we get it done. Who are...Tags: Authors, Meghan Daum, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nicholas Goldberg, Patt Morrison
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