Politics

Assemblyman James Ramos (D-Highlands) of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, fifth from left, opens a meeting with tribal leaders from around the state, attended by Gov. Gavin Newsom, fourth from left, at the future site of the California Indian Heritage Center. (Rich Pedroncelli / AP) Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Tuesday … Read more

As election returns rolled in Tuesday night, the creator of the USC/Los Angeles Times Daybreak tracking poll was in Washington for a speaking engagement. He watched the results on television in a hotel bar, surrounded by about 20 drunken Danes who were in the capital to study the election. “It was an odd experience,” Arie … Read more

WASHINGTON – If Sen. Marco Rubio isn’t planning on being Mitt Romney’s choice for a running mate, he’s certainly jockeying to position himself for greater prominence on the national stage. Delivering a speech at the Brookings Institution on Wednesday, Rubio stepped into the sphere of foreign policy. The senator from Florida declared at the start … Read more

Republican presidential challenger Patrick J. Buchanan called for phasing out foreign aid and withdrawing U.S. troops from Europe and Korea as he lambasted the Bush Administration on Wednesday for failing to secure America’s borders against illegal immigrants and failing to defend American sovereignty against international bureaucrats. “The battle for the future is on,” Buchanan told … Read more

As the main political parties fight in the midterms for control of Congress, Democrats’ improved fortunes since the Roe vs. Wade reversal shows that angering moderates is a good way to lose elections. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) Moderates have lately been out of fashion in American politics. On the right, conservative Republicans scorn … Read more

When Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo launched his unusual Twitter victory lap on New Year’s Day, he promised he would be telling a story about American foreign policy that could not be read anywhere else. Pompeo, part of a dwindling handful of Cabinet secretaries and senior officials determined to stick with President Trump to … Read more

When the allegations first hit, two weeks ago, that he had asked the president of Ukraine to help his reelection campaign by investigating Joe Biden and his family, President Trump was caught off guard and struggled to find a strategy. His first defense — that he had offered “no quid pro quo” — fared poorly … Read more

Donald Trump’s election denialism has infected even local-level politics. The Board of Supervisors in rural Cochise County refused to certify Kari Lake’s loss in the Arizona governor’s race until a judge stepped in. (LM Otero / Associated Press) For several weeks, Joy Banks felt as though she — or at least her rights as a … Read more

Let some in the political world obsess over whether Mitt Romney plans to run for president for a third time — Ann Romney has a bigger project in mind. On Tuesday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the Romneys are launching the Ann Romney Center for Neurological Diseases, a research facility that will focus … Read more

Sarah Palin’s family was thrust into the national spotlight in 2008 when Sen. John McCain picked her to be his GOP running mate in the campaign for president. Now, after years of attention that accompanied Palin’s role as a popular and controversial conservative advocate and media personality, the family is once again under scrutiny, this … Read more