Every month, Los Angeles Magazine releases their recommendations of the best books written by Angelenos or about Los Angeles. This month's picks have ...
Eric Volz | Posted 05.25.2011
Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd, and Shane Bauer's personal dignity must be kept as high as possible. They must hold tight to the idea that they are in prison, but the prison is not in them.
Adam Yamaguchi | Posted 05.25.2011
As we've learned first hand, there are major dangers involved in investigative reporting. But we believe there's an even greater risk in not going after the stories that most need to be told.
Michael Rowe | Posted 05.25.2011
When the U.S. loudly asserts its right to apply its own laws to foreigners suspected of crime, it's difficult to make a case when the shoe is on the other foot.
Pamela Tom | Posted 05.25.2011
If you're anything like me -- living in this mad, mad world of information overload -- it may be difficult to look back at 2009 and remember the big news stories that defined this year.
nytimes.com | REUTERS | Posted 05.25.2011
BEIJING (Reuters) - China rejected on Thursday claims by two U.S. journalists that they were seized on Chinese territory before being dragged into Nor...
AP | LISA LEFF and HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — Two American television reporters imprisoned in North Korea for months say communist soldiers "violently dragged" them back when...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011
The gall of Cheney's statements is that he was a key part of the administration that deconstructed the objectivity of the Justice Department, which he now relies on to defend the use of torture.
nytimes.com | CHOE SANG | Posted 05.25.2011
Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two American journalists released after nearly five months in North Korean custody, have been widely portrayed at home as...
The Huffington Post | Susan Ryan | Posted 05.25.2011
Have you been spending the summer sipping margaritas on the beach, or joining friends and fam for countless bar-b-ques? While you've been relaxing, we...
John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011
In all the commentary on Clinton's trip, journalists and pundits spent so much time cataloging North Korea's sins, they missed several key points.
Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011
While most of the country was busy heralding the safe return of American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling from North Korea, Gordon Liddy appears to be losing his mind.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011
Riding into N. Korea on his white horse to rescue imprisoned journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, His Royal Bubbaness could not have looked anymore like the uber-rock star that he is.
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 05.25.2011
When the two women disembarked, after tears, hugs and kisses, Bill Clinton chose not to speak. This said more about the former president than any of his words could have conveyed.
Mallika Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011
No words can capture the love and joy of a family finally reunited.
Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011
The unsettling discrepancy between Obama's boldly stated goals and unclear strategies for reaching them means less than adequate guidance for the players in the diplomatic orchestra.
Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama said he is "extraordinarily relieved" at the news that U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee have safely returned to the country af...
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 05.25.2011
With Netroots Nation coming up next week, we have joining us DailyKos General Manager Will Rockafellow for today's Wilshire & Washington podcast.
AP | PAMELA HESS and SHARON THEIMER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON (AP) — A wealthy Hollywood producer and a major corporation paid for the flight that carried former President Bill Clinton and two Am...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Former Vice President Al Gore welcomed home the two American journalists who had been detained in North Korea. The journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Lin...
Taylor Marsh | Posted 05.25.2011
Instead of blasting a headline of jubilation, someone inside Huffington Post decided to take the road down Clinton Derangement Highway.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Euna Lee and Laura Ling are safe at home and in the warm embrace of loved ones and it's hard to feel bad about this. But, since Bill Clinton has a han...
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
The North Koreans in charge got what they wanted -- all that video, stills, pumped-up domestic "news," propaganda -- their leader engaging with the former president of the United States.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were tearfully welcomed home today by their families after Bill Clinton's successful mission to free them fro...
Gotham Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011
Today, because of the efforts of thousands of activists, supporters, and well-wishers on channels like this one, Laura and Euna were pardoned and are on their way home with former Pres. Clinton.
Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011