Walters: Newsom plays climate warrior, compromiser and coy candidate
This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Gov. Gavin Newsom still insists that he hasn’t decided to run for president in 2028. But...
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Douthat: What if the monarchy went out with a bang?
Recently, at the urging of a Norwegian American friend, I watched a documentary about Princess Martha Louise of Norway and her new husband, Durek Verrett,...
Freeman and Hartung: Pentagon budget favors defense contractors over vets
This year, for the first time, the Pentagon’s budget topped $1 trillion. We’re told this is to “support the troops.” Unfortunately, nothing could be further...
Murphy: Dick Cheney’s last public act was to fight Trump
In the last year of his life, former Vice President Dick Cheney issued one of his final public statements to defend the country against what...
Milliken: Nation’s leadership in science, innovation at risk
By James B. Milliken Over the course of just three days recently, five scientists affiliated with the University of California won Nobel prizes for discoveries...
Ignatius: Trump and Xi back away from the brink
Oh, what a lovely trade war. The United States and China got to test their heavy tariff and embargo artillery without inflicting significant damage on...
Annamma and Stovall: Trump administration targeting children of color
By Subini Annamma and David Stovall. For the Los Angeles Times. The scenes have been all over the news. In Colorado, ICE smashes the window...
Walters: Newsom, Harris could face off for president in 2028
Well, sports fans, how about this scenario — longtime frenemies Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris facing off for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination three years...
Chabria: False claims erode public trust in elections
Today we’re taking a tour through the mythical Land of Election Fraud, where President Donald Trump has built a palace of lies, imprisoning both truth...
Goldberg: Trump’s sights set beyond that of dictator
Julius Caesar still casts a long shadow. We have a 12-month calendar — and leap year — thanks to Julius. July is named after him...
Will: The choreographed fakery of American politics — East Wing edition
When Martha Ellen Truman, the new president’s mother, was told that she could sleep in the White House’s Lincoln Bedroom, she, “her Confederate blood rising,...
Golis: Prop. 50 vs. ‘the amoeba that ate North Houston.’
Judging by the tens of thousands of people who came together to protest his presidency, Donald Trump won’t be winning over North Bay voters anytime...
Kristof: World has again failed to prevent atrocities in Darfur
Accounts are emerging of mass atrocities being committed in a major city in the Darfur region of Sudan. But in contrast with the global outrage...
Skelton: Trump’s antics are helping Prop. 50 backers
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s anti-Trump, anti-Texas congressional redistricting gamble seems about to pay off. Newsom’s bet on Proposition 50 is looking like a winner,...