Ben Ehrenreich

Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov The ground has barely been broken for a new, $24 million sports-and-entertainment complex in Koreatown, but the project — and its proposed city-assisted financing — has already generated rancor in the community. The controversy centers on the impending gift of public funds to a private club,......

Photo by Robert YagerIT HAD BEEN WEEKS SINCE ARTURO VISITED THE Pico-Union neighborhood in which he grew up. It was hard not to see his friends, but going back was risky. Before he moved away a couple of years earlier, the police had been stopping him every time they saw......

"They didn’t warn us — we were just standing there. They didn’t say get down. They just started shooting [with wooden pellets]. Then they beat us up." Thus did one inmate at the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service’s El Centro detention center describe a round of reprisals exacted by an......

GREG TREVERTON is director of the Rand Corporation's International Security and Defense Policy Center. BEN EHRENREICH spoke to him about the nature of weaponry in present-day Iraq and our probable expectations in the current conflict. What we really know about Iraqi weapons production is the situation prior to Desert Storm......

MAURICE EISENSTEIN is a former senior staff member and currently a senior consultant on national security matters for the Rand Corporation. He was interviewed by BEN EHRENREICH on what we know about the Iraqi chemical and biological weapons programs. On the chemical side, the Iraqis have demonstrated a capacity to......