Column: The Supreme Court’s deference to Trump is astounding
The nation’s federal judges — including appointees of presidents of both parties, Donald Trump’s among them — have been the bulwark against Trump’s reign of…
Column: Is bombing Iran deja vu all over again?
After a short and successful war with Iraq, President George H.W. Bush claimed in 1991 that “the ghosts of Vietnam have been laid to rest…
Column: Big state budget questions linger about crime, Medi-Cal, Delta tunnel
SACRAMENTO — California really does still have a Legislature, even if you haven’t been reading or hearing much about it. In fact, it’s currently making a ton…
Column: How I spent my summer vacation — watching America lean into autocracy
For years we’ve read stories about antidemocratic countries abroad — supreme leaders acting with impunity, masked agents rounding up residents, troops in the streets, crackdowns…
Column: Maybe the latest Democratic disarray means they’re coming to their senses
Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, and Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees,…
Column: Padilla was right to challenge Noem’s right-wing lunacy
Newsletter You're reading the L.A. Times Politics newsletter Anita Chabria and David Lauter bring insights into legislation, politics and policy from California and beyond. In…
Column: Wasn’t the president supposed to be deporting criminals?
This will strike the literal-minded as illogical, but I think Huntington Park Mayor Arturo Flores, a Marine veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, had a righteous…
Letters: Bill Plaschke is taking fight to Parkinson’s disease
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix"> Bill Plaschke, thank you for your very informative column about Parkinson’s disease and your boxing exercise program. I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s about…
Column: Don’t wait for an election year to listen to Black men
Heading into the final stretch of the 2024 election, it seemed every cable news program had a segment dedicated to this one question: What will…
Column: Newsom’s power play on the Delta tunnel
Newsletter You're reading the L.A. Times Politics newsletter Anita Chabria and David Lauter bring insights into legislation, politics and policy from California and beyond. In…
Column: Did the MyPillow guy, clinging to the Big Lie, defame a Dominion exec?
There’s a line in Eric Coomer’s defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy, that strikes me as the perfect description of what happens when…
Column: Voters who don’t vote? This is one way democracy can die, by 20 million cuts
During China’s imperial age, those deemed guilty of the worst offenses were sometimes sentenced to death in a public square by a brutal form of…
Column: Newsom insults California voters by not funding Proposition 36
SACRAMENTO — This just seems wrong: Californians overwhelmingly approved an anti-crime ballot measure in November. But our governor strongly opposed the proposition. So he’s not funding it.Gov.…
Column: Harris hasn’t shown much interest in being California governor
SACRAMENTO — The big question in California politics is, “Will Kamala Harris run for governor?” But that’s the wrong question. Far more important is, “Should she?”And that’s…
Column: The ‘One, Big, Beautiful Bill’ is a big, ugly mess
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” is one big, ugly mess.We’ve seen false advertising in naming laws before — the Democrats’ 2022 Inflation Reduction Act jumps…
Column: America was gaslit by the arrogance of Joe Biden and his enablers
In March 2024, I wrote a column about President Biden’s State of the Union speech with a confident headline that made perfect sense to me…
Column: The Lakers should draft a big man who’s also a grown-up
The NBA draft combine concludes this weekend, and the draft is next month. However, before I dive into what kind of player the Los Angeles…
Column: Watch for even small shifts in Texas politics. Sometimes tectonic movements follow
Waskom, Texas, is an old railroad town of about 2,000 nestled at the midway point between Dallas and Shreveport, La. According to the city’s website,…
Hate Trump? Love him? You'll both be annoyed by this column
Agreeing with Trump's ends and despising his means won't win a columnist friends on the left or the right. Source link
Column: Another Big Lie: RFK Jr. wants to make America healthy again
What do you think would happen, I asked my daughter, a nurse practitioner who works in addiction medicine, if Narcan, the drug that reverses opiate…