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About a week ago, I attended a JD Vance rally. It had aspects of one of those rousing Donald Trump “I’m Proud to Be An American” events. There were GOP

The war between Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s once-immense oil industry entered a new phase recently when Chevron, California’s oldest and best known producer of gasoline and other petroleum

In political history’s most remarkable U-turn, Vice President Kamala Harris – the Democrat’s presidential candidate – has converted into a tough-on-border-security advocate. She pledges to hire thousands more border agents,

When the industrial revolution erupted in 18th century Britain — replacing handwork with machinery in the manufacture of goods — many of the affected textile workers responded by attacking and

For Democrats this historic election is about only one issue – Trump. Whoever wins the White House, it won’t be because of issues like high inflation, trillion-dollar annual budget deficits

The emphasis the two major presidential campaigns are putting on swing states understates the playing field for the 2024 election. It’s the swing voters inside the swing states that matter.

A few years ago, when the U.S. Senate was considering the nomination of Jeff Sessions as attorney general under Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren started reading into the record some comments

You might still have questions about how the Biden Coup of 2024 went down. Or maybe you still want to know who has really been calling the shots in the

Gov. Gavin Newsom tirelessly touts the size and strength of California’s economy, often contrasting it with those of other states. When, for example, the monthly employment report was issued in

“Sock it to meee?” That awkward query by presidential candidate Richard Milhous Nixon (on the Sept. 16, 1968, episode of “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In”) was probably haunting my mind on

Bowling didn’t make the cut again. Neither were baseball and softball, ballroom dancing, pole dancing and a host of other sports featured in the 2024 Summer Olympics games in Paris.

Throughout her career, Kamala Harris has benefited from the support of friends in high places. Michelle and Barack Obama’s recent endorsement of Harris for president is just the latest example.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been one of the loudest Democratic politicians in denouncing former President Donald Trump as a threat to democracy. While endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign

Although the initiative process — proposing new laws via ballot measures — has been in California’s constitution for more than a century, its use was fairly uncommon until the 1970s.

It’s axiomatic that institutions, whether governmental, academic, philanthropic or corporate, rarely reform themselves. Universally, if systemic change occurs, it tends to come from outside the existing structure for one overriding

A handful of Republicans have referred to Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, as a “DEI hire.”  They were essentially saying that President Joe Biden

There is an almost cult-like trope circulating on social media involving Kamala Harris. There are numerous variations, but it essentially involves stating a few key details about yourself like “I’m

We had two big speeches from Washington last week. Neither one was very encouraging for those of us who worry about our fragile democracy and the futures of our kids

When California emerged from its colonial beginnings nearly two centuries ago and began coalescing into a distinct society, its towns and villages tended to be located either on navigable rivers,

It’s not hyperbole to declare that California’s most serious economic, social and political issue is its chronic shortage of housing, particularly for families in the lower income brackets. As the