On April 11, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled that Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student and lawful United States permanent resident, can…
Gov. Gavin Newsom made headlines Friday for his comments about wrongfully deported Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia, when he was trying to make news about…
Lawfare makes for strange bedfellows.As part of his tightening grip on power, and his assault on 200-plus years of checks and balances, President Trump has…
Alarmed by President Trump’s unprecedented effort to punish law firms he doesn’t like, UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky emailed nearly 200 fellow law…
Sarah RainsfordEastern Europe correspondentReporting fromPoeni, RomaniaBBC/Sarah RainsfordThe nationalist George Simion is polling strongly in Romania ahead of electionsThe Romanian village of Poeni has a couple…
Hello and happy Thursday. Today we’re starting with a quiz. Which American political leader said, “The professors are the enemy”? That would be Richard Nixon,…
NEW YORK — As their party struggles to navigate the early days of Donald Trump’s second presidency, some Democrats are convinced that their road to recovery lies…
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…
SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday announced a new digital democracy initiative that will attempt to connect residents directly with government officials in times of…
Hello and happy Thursday. Welcome to the “Is reality dead?” edition of this column, in which Vladimir Putin is our friend, egg prices don’t matter…
These are times that try Democratic souls.Shut out of power in Washington and facing an unbridled president taking a sledgehammer to parts of the federal…
When ideas fail, Goethe says, words come in very handy. Words make worlds. However, as Thucydides cautions, in wars, words lose their meaning. We are…
Kragujevac, Serbia—15 February 1835 marked a fleeting moment of audacity. In this unassuming city, then Serbia’s capital, enlightenment-inspired reformers presented the Sretenje Constitution—a radical document…
MUNICH — Vice President JD Vance met the leader of a German far-right party during a visit to Munich on Friday, nine days before a German election…
DUBAI — Elon Musk called on Thursday for the United States to “delete entire agencies” from the federal government as part of his push under President Trump…
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta joined a coalition of more than 20 states Friday in asking a federal court to once again intercede and force…
A single social media post illuminates the precarious state of the American democratic experiment.When President Trump said last week that the military had “just entered…
Marc Lamont Hill speaks with the former war correspondent about liberal democracy and Trump’s second term.As Donald Trump returns to the White House, many are…
In the rapidly evolving realm of social media and digital platforms, one name consistently dominates the headlines: Elon Musk. Renowned for his ventures in electric…
I really appreciated Monday’s unexpected call for unity in the Capitol rotunda, where MAGA insurrectionists mounted a deadly attack on Congress four years ago.Unfortunately, it…