On Saturday morning, before she was shot, Gabrielle Giffords was performing one of her most vital duties as a public servant. She was meeting with the public.

The Arizona congresswoman knew there were risks; last March, the windows of her office were shattered after her vote for health care reform....

Before dawn on Tuesday, the sad ritual began.

For ten straight hours, two veterans of L.A. County's crematorium and cemetery solemnly filled a wide and deep grave with small plastic boxes containing the ashes of people whose bodies had gone unclaimed for more than three years. Back and forth the...

In the past 30 years, California has slipped from being a world leader in education, health care and public policy innovation to our current status as a case study in broken government.

On Tuesday, we have a chance to put California back on track. Proposition 25, the...

If you're of a certain age, like me, you can still remember the horrifying scenes that unfolded for weeks along the Santa Barbara shoreline -- the oil-drenched birds, the blackened sands, the hundreds of crews in rain slickers battling vainly against the advancing ooze.

Now, 40 years later, here we...

Something remarkable is unfolding in the mountains above our urban sprawl -- something for the ages. Parcel by parcel, acre by acre, we have amassed more protected open space than any major metropolis in the nation.

Government sometimes deservedly gets a good knocking for its failures, for too often...