Articles by Gale Holland

Advocates urged a state appellate court Monday to overturn a decision that severely restricted the ability of California parents to educate their children at home, saying family-based schooling works for hundreds of thousands of children.”You cannot deny parents the right to do good for their kids,” said Michael P. Farris, representing the Home School Legal Defense Assn. Read more

A federal appeals court Monday rejected a constitutional challenge to rent control in Santa Monica. Read more

Los Angeles has embarked on a course so stupid no one would believe it, were it not as predictable as it is dumb. Read more

The New York Times editor’s note apologizing for a lack of skepticism in some of its prewar reporting (a “mini culpa,” as Slate’s Jack Shafer called it) was just the latest in a veritable typhoon of apologies raining down from Iraq war cheerleaders. Read more

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is: “What does a woman want?” Read more

Not long after my son began busing to a magnet school in the San Fernando Valley, he came up against the vast psychic gulf that divides Los Angeles’ premier bedroom communities from the rest of the city. Read more

Remember after Sept. Read more

It’s an article of faith among some Muslims that Israel and/or the international Jewish/Zionist cabal were behind the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Read more

There’s nothing that pricks up the ears of the chattering classes like a whisper of presidential scandal, preferably a lovely quagmire to which the suffix “gate” can be appended. Read more