Viewpoints

Viewpoints: On the eve of Brown’s trip to China: Revaluing California’s export trade

By Jock O'Connell - Published: 12:00 am

Last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division, California's merchandise export trade was valued at somewhere between $124.6 billion and $164.4 billion. It was either up 1.8 percent over the preceding year or down by 6.2 percent.

Viewpoints: Schools need to help kids eat healthy

By Mikki Cichocki - Published: 12:00 am

As a mom and teacher, I am challenged again and again by the amount of junk food in our nation's schools. Like all parents, I want my child to be healthy, happy and successful.

David Brooks: Universities must learn to enhance seminars with technology

By David Brooks - Published: 12:00 am

The best part of the rise of online education is that it forces us to ask: What is a university for?

Viewpoints: Knot still isn't tied for gay marriage rights

By Peter Schrag - Published: Friday, April 5 2013 - 12:00 am

After last week's Supreme Court arguments on California's Proposition 8, most of the smart money seems to be on a ruling – you can't really call it a decision – ducking the big issue: Does the equal protection clause of the constitution allow a state to prohibit gay marriage?

Eugene Robinson: Are these candidates the best the GOP can come up with?

By Eugene Robinson - Published: Friday, April 5 2013 - 12:00 am

I think I've figured it out. Republicans must be staging some kind of fiendishly clever plot to lure Democrats into a false sense of security.

The Conversation

The man who may decide the future of gay rights

By Lawrence C. Levine - Updated: Monday, March 25 2013 - 12:20 am

All eyes will be on Sacramento's own Justice Anthony M. Kennedy this week when the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument in two important cases dealing with issues of fairness and equality under the law. These cases ask whether our Constitution allows same-sex relationships to be treated differently than their opposite-sex counterparts.

National Opinions

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Proof that love can overcome evil

By LEONARD PITTS JR. - Published: Wednesday, April 3 2013 - 1:00 am

A few words on the death of Elwin Wilson.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Father, forgive us; for we know not what we do

By LEONARD PITTS JR. - Published: Sunday, March 31 2013 - 1:00 am

Jonylah Watkins died on a Tuesday.

Bob Ray Sanders: Honoring a revered slain civil rights leader and a special song

By BOB RAY SANDERS - Published: Thursday, March 28 2013 - 6:15 am

April 4 will mark the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, an event that shocked the nation when the civil rights leader was felled by an assassin's bullet.