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2005 Stories by Harold Meyerson

• Tom Bradley’s Oscar and Felix

  published December 15, 2005

  They were the alpha and omega of Tom Bradley’s Los Angeles. No two players in Bradley’s coalition — a coalition that dominated the c... More >>

• An Ambivalent Hero

  published December 15, 2005

  Not content simply to defend the president’s war, Senator Joe Lieberman is now scolding those who criticize it. In times o... More >>

• Low Prices, Widespread Torture

  published December 8, 2005

  Whatever its virtues, the United Nations isn’t the first place you’d turn to if you wanted to expose some nefarious internal practic... More >>

• The Defeat Expands

  published November 24, 2005

  They’re still counting. And with each successive updating of the results in this November’s special election, the magnitude of Arnol... More >>

• Terminatable

  published November 10, 2005

  The problem with socialism, the great socialist and wit Oscar Wilde once remarked, was that it took up too many evenings. Wilde was... More >>

• Ed and Antonio

  published November 3, 2005

  There was something fitting in the fact that it was Antonio Villaraigosa who announced the death of Ed Roybal last week, and it wasn’... More >>

• Scooter’s Plea

  published November 3, 2005

  I'm not a lawyer — I don’t even play one on television. But after reading the 22-page indictment that Patrick Fitzgerald’s grand j... More >>

• Element of Suspense

  published October 20, 2005

  The right’s operation for the November special election is taking shape. The California Republican Party has hired Gary Marx, an exper... More >>

• Missing the Unthinkable

  published October 6, 2005

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• The Cavalry to the Rescue

  published September 29, 2005

  ST. LOUIS — And then there were two.America picked up a second labor federation here on Tuesday, and it doesn’t bear all that mu... More >>

• Special-Interest Governator

  published September 22, 2005

  The Arnold is repositioning. With his three signature ballot measures already going down in flames, he has endorsed a fourth, limiting... More >>

• Government and Floods

  published September 8, 2005

  Government begins with disaster — in fact, in response to floods. The earliest civilizations were riverbank cultures along the Nile, th... More >>

• The New Iraq

  published August 25, 2005

  Looks like George W. Bush has gotten his British political philosophers all bollixed up. After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, he... More >>

• George Gershwin Lived Here

  published August 18, 2005

  Roxbury Drive was always the centerpiece of the Old Hollywood tour I gave to out-of-town friends when they came to L.A. The two blocks... More >>

• Terms of the Divorce

  published August 18, 2005

  Breaking up is hard to do. And for an American labor movement currently splitting in two, nowhere more so than in California.The impact of... More >>

• End of Solidarity

  published July 28, 2005

  CHICAGO — The hardest thing to explain is how labor got here. How it reached the point where it now looks as if we may have two separat... More >>

• A New Age

  published July 7, 2005

  The seat assignments moved around right up to the start of the ceremony. Everybody wanted to be close to Antonio. Ninety minutes... More >>

• Made for Each Other

  published June 30, 2005

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• Laboring to Stay Together

  published June 23, 2005

  WASHINGTON, DC — At the topmost ranks of American labor, the great game of chicken proceeds apace. Dissident unions threaten the AFL-CI... More >>

• In Miguel’s Shoes

  published June 9, 2005

  “He’s more operational than anyone,” says one union staffer of Martin Ludlow, who announced Tuesday that he’s leaving the City Counci... More >>

• Mayor of the Future

  published May 26, 2005

  “Our polling said [my margin of victory] would be somewhere in the vicinity of 15 points, but I always believed it would be less tha... More >>

• New Mayor, New City

  published May 19, 2005

  It may not always have been pretty, but it was goddamn important. The election of Antonio Villaraigosa as mayor of Los Angeles, by a... More >>

• The Architect

  published May 12, 2005

  We are, I know, electing a mayor of Los Angeles, but the real architect of the new Los Angeles died with terrible suddenness on Friday night,... More >>

• Mayor Who?

  published May 5, 2005

  Just how wide a swath does Jim Hahn cut in the world? The question was posed, totally inadvertently, by a recent Sunday feature in the... More >>

• Running Like Bushes

  published April 7, 2005

  The mayor of Los Angeles has his four-letter political dynasties mixed up. He’s not running like a Hahn — ... More >>