Tuesday, January 27

Justice missing from “˜peace plan’

It’s 1994 all over again; Camp David was a joke, and Sharm el-Sheikh was the stage for the new theatrical masterpiece, “Sharon, Man of Peace.” How can the new disengagement plan be a lasting solution to the Palestinian crisis when it doesn’t address any of the main causes of the crisis? Read more...


Letter to the editor

Jewish, Muslim circumcisions more humane Lara Loewenstein wrongly contends that Jewish and Muslim ritual male circumcisions are tantamount to African tribal female circumcisions, saying both exemplify dreadful genital manipulations (“Cut circumcision out of the American culture,” April 4). Read more...



Americanism welcomed abroad

Cinnabon, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, Burger King “”mdash; they were all there. How strange, I thought. Here I stand, in the middle of Amman, Jordan, in the curtly named “Mecca Mall,” and yet I couldn’t be closer to home. Read more...



Speaks out

AFSCME, the union that represents most UCLA staff, plans to strike unless the university agrees to renegotiate its contract. Do you think the strike is a good idea? Read more...