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Column: His first day back in office confirms it — there is no Trump 2.0
WASHINGTON — President Trump promised an inaugural address focused on “unity,” but what he delivered was more a campaign speech in a…
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Column: Why's it so hard to do the right thing and honor the true heroes of Jan. 6?
On Monday, Donald Trump will visit the scene of a crime, laying his hand on a Bible and vowing to preserve and protect the Constitution as…
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Column: Trump wants to grab control of Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal. He's already bungled it
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s campaign excursions into foreign policy were few and far between. He promised to build a stronger military and…
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Column: 'Are you OK?' Thank you for asking about us in fire-ravaged L.A.
Questions abound around the wildfires still burning their way across Los Angeles, obliterating entire neighborhoods with an unfathomable…
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Column: For Angelenos suffering fire fatigue, ace water drop videos are sweet revenge
Look, up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Super Scooper water drop! The most memorable battle scenes exist in the pivot — the…
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Column: Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden and revisionist presidential history
For my entire career, it’s seemed, the Republican Party has run against Jimmy Carter. From my novice reporter days in Texas beginning…
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Column: Biden's legacy, like Jimmy Carter's, is complex — and it's in Donald Trump's hands now
WASHINGTON — By the standard President Biden set himself, the core purpose he proclaimed when he ran in 2020, it is impossible to assess…
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Column: Jimmy Carter was the right candidate for 1976, but was he the right president?
SACRAMENTO — Jimmy Carter was the right presidential candidate for his time in 1976 — a smiling, homespun, anti-Washington outsider…
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Column: Mea culpa: I got some things wrong in 2024. At least I hope I did
WASHINGTON — I spent much of 2024 warning readers that a second Trump presidency would do serious damage to American institutions,…
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Column: History gets Jimmy Carter wrong, both underrated and overrated
In the lives of public figures a tale often takes hold and that narrative becomes their story. In the case of Jimmy Carter, it goes like…
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Column: After a bruising election year in America what will 2025 bring?
SACRAMENTO — How do you summarize — or make sense of — 2024? It’s been a year of upheaval, division, winners and losers. And perhaps most…
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Column: This is the trouble with Elon Musk's debut as a federal budget negotiator
In the wake of a successful effort to kill a year-end spending bill and replace it with more limited legislation to keep the government…
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Column: Trump's promised deportations are on a collision course with a California economy built on hypocrisy
This country has always had a hypocritical relationship with the undocumented workers who keep America’s agricultural, construction and…
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Column: For many Black women, Kamala Harris' defeat felt like a betrayal. Now what?
The day Joe Biden faced reality, stepped aside and cleared the way for Kamala Harris to replace him atop the Democratic ticket, Teja Smith…
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Column: The latest evidence that putting RFK Jr. in charge of public health would be a disaster
Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. Suddenly, her arms and legs became weak, and…
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Column: The U.S. economy is doing very well. But don't give too much credit to Biden — or Trump
One of Donald Trump’s closing campaign arguments was that he would deliver a new “golden age” for America. This week, he announced that…
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Column: Kash Patel, Trump's FBI pick, would turn the agency into the Federal Bureau of Retribution
WASHINGTON — Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee as the next director of the FBI, has big plans. He has called for the…
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Column: This is why Donald Trump just doubled down on mass deportation of millions of immigrants
A chilling scene in the new movie “Wicked” sums up what’s wrong with President-elect Donald Trump’s view of immigrants. The two witches,…
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Column: California produced a female House speaker and vice president. So why are women losing ground?
When California lawmakers convened in Sacramento for a special session this month, they marked a milestone. For the first time ever, women…
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Column: The headlines said Amnesty International accused Israel of genocide. Here’s what they missed
In a shocking development last week, Amnesty International effectively exonerated Israel of genocide. This was easy to miss, and not just…
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Column: Trump hoped his Cabinet picks could escape serious vetting. He was so wrong
WASHINGTON — In a normal presidential transition, the president-elect spends weeks carefully considering candidates for the most important…
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Column: The backlash on the backlash against the Hunter Biden pardon
Days later I’m still seething that President Biden gave a “full and unconditional” pardon to his troublesome surviving son. And yet,…
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Column: President Biden's pardon of his son Hunter is understandable. It's also unforgivable
It came as a surprise that President Biden unconditionally pardoned his son Hunter, a convicted felon, after repeatedly vowing that he…
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Column: Tulsi Gabbard as intelligence czar? The Trump Cabinet pick most likely to fail
WASHINGTON — Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies, is a woman of strong…