Nicholas Goldberg

War is on everybody’s mind in Germany. But not always the immediate war in Ukraine — sometimes it’s the wars of the past we promised never to have again.

Governments have always relied on euphemisms, obfuscation and misleading language to try to sanitize the horrors of war.

Can the world’s two most heavily armed nuclear powers keep from being drawn in deeper and deeper?

The news that the former president’s border wall has been breached more than 3,000 times in three years is a reminder of just what a bad idea it was.

As crime rises around the country, reform-minded district attorneys are under fire in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and elsewhere.

Abortion rights activists say Roe vs. Wade should not be reversed because it’s a long-standing precedent. But that’s the wrong reason to protect it.

Are we really going to let the unappealing business term “high net worth individuals” replace “rich”? I hope not.

We demand admissions of guilt and expressions of remorse before we grant forgiveness. But when it comes to parole, that raises serious problems.

Prosecutions are becoming more difficult in these decades-old murders. But history hasn’t finished with them. Now journalists, scholars and the public need to see the files.

‘Hold music’ was an OK idea when it was invented 60 years ago, but in an era of unprecedented wait times, it’s due for a rethink.

With Ukraine and Taiwan and other hot spots at risk, the U.S. has been looking inward lately and shrugging off its leadership role.

At first it seemed like crazy talk that an ex-president who wasn’t a member of Congress could become speaker, but given U.S. politics, you never know.

George Gascón explores the shocking — and yet not so shocking — bigotry revealed in the text messages of dozens of Torrance cops.

The Democrats were once the party of ideals and optimism. But in the era of COVID and climate change, the message has turned dark.

The Pomona school district recently reversed its decision to end school policing. Los Angeles’ hasty decision to cut $25 million from the school police is just beginning to take effect.

We may think any of us can become the next Bezos or Musk. But in fact, social mobility is not really a thing in America anymore. Income inequality is.

Starting with Benjamin Disraeli and continuing with Upton Sinclair, Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal, there’s a long tradition of writers seeking public office. Most of the time, they lose.

Documents about the massacre at Deir Yassin and other possible atrocities remain classified, apparently to cover up their “unpleasant” contents.

A man with a record of raping underage girls may move into a three-bedroom house near Lancaster. But he’s got to live somewhere, doesn’t he?

We’re changing the names of Ft. Hood, Ft. Bragg and others now. But what were we thinking when we named military sites after leaders of a white separatist insurrection?