Kevin Phillips

Goldberg: Education spending that isn't smart

2013-02-05 00:00:00

Not long after President Obama proclaimed in his second inaugural that "an economic recovery has begun," we learned that the U.S. economy actually shrank in the last quarter. Many economists believe this is a temporary setback. This recovery may be the...

Kinsley: The more things change ...

2012-11-22 00:00:00

Bill Clinton became president on a platform of "change." Not change in any particular way — just change in the abstract. Like characters in a Chekhov play, Americans found daily life unbearable in some usually unspecified way, and dreamed of escape....

Hollywood on black culture: Should it be looking forward not back?

2012-01-23 16:37:34

Goldberg: Conservative establishment divided against itself

2011-12-27 00:00:00

I've made a disturbing discovery: I am a member of the conservative "establishment." I felt like Michael Douglas at the end of "Falling Down": "I'm the bad guy?" For the last few years, the rank and file of the GOP and the conservative movement have...

'House' recap: Pick your poison

2011-05-10 16:36:00

Lisa Kron's 'The Wake' revisits the 2000 presidential election and Sept. 11

2010-03-14 00:00:00

Elections. Breakups. Thanksgivings from hell. Lisa Kron's new play, "The Wake," follows a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown: Type-A journalist Ellen, whose certainty about politics and love gets blown out of the water. Opening this month at the...

Los Angeles Times Bestsellers

2008-10-05 00:00:00

++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || Weeks on list || || 1. || The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (Ecco: $25.95) A mute dog breeder is banished by his uncle � la "Hamlet." || 11 || || 2. || The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone:...

'Bad Money' by Kevin Phillips

2008-04-15 15:04:14

April 16, 2008 Kevin Phillips' new book, "Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism," would be sobering enough if it were the first we'd ever heard from him. When you take into account how often he's...

Separated, yet well-engaged

2004-10-12 00:00:00

Sue Balboa turned 49 years old last month without the company of her husband, a California National Guardsman serving in Iraq. The Moreno Valley grandmother consoles herself by thinking that on her next birthday, the milestone 50th, he will be back home...

Tears, Fanfare as Troops Depart

2004-03-14 00:00:00

Not even the harsh desert sun could dry the tears of sadness and pride on Saturday as hundreds of families bid adieu to the largest contingent of overseas-bound California National Guard soldiers since the Korean War. "I'm extremely proud of my son...

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists Announced

2003-03-10 00:00:00

LOS ANGELES, March 10, 2003 -- The Los Angeles Times announced the finalists for the 23rd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, which will be presented April 26 at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles. The 45 Book Prize finalists were announced during a...

Los Angeles Times Names Book Prize Winners

2003-04-28 00:00:00

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Randy from Lifeflight Presents a check to Kevin Phillips

2013-02-28 11:39:00

Morning Animal Kevin Phillips Live

2013-02-28 06:21:00

Kevin Phillips drives to the hoop while defended by Chris Austin of Notre Dame.

2013-02-15 00:00:00