Column: How California, land of Nixon and Reagan, turned blue and changed American politics

Column: How California, land of Nixon and Reagan, turned blue and changed American politics Bill Clinton was busy filling Cabinet positions and shaping his economic agenda when a memo landed from a team of political advisors. Although Clinton was still more than a month away from becoming president, the topic was his reelection nearly four years … Read more

Los Angeles Times reported about Justice Thomas’ gifts 20 years ago. After that he stopped disclosing them

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas appears to have continued accepting free trips from a wealthy friend. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press) It was 2004 when the Los Angeles Times disclosed that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had accepted expensive gifts and private plane trips paid for by Harlan Crow, a wealthy Texas real estate investor … Read more

Media reaction to Trump campaign email leak starkly different from 2016, when Clinton was hacked

Former President Clinton applauds his wife, Hillary Clinton, after she conceded defeat in the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. Emails leaked from her campaign played a role in the election. (Matt Rourke / Associated Press) When emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign were leaked just before the 2016 election, the news media breathlessly covered the … Read more

Column: Nancy Pelosi just answered one big question. But another remains

Nancy Pelosi’s plan to seek reelection extends one of San Francisco’s longest-running, most-fevered political guessing games: Who will succeed the Democrat when she finally does step aside? The announcement Tuesday by the 81-year-old congresswoman was utterly predictable. Her decision augurs an election that will be thoroughly pro forma. Pelosi will attract, as she always does, … Read more

A quick guide to the people and groups Donald Trump has insulted

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reads from a statement about Pope Francis during a campaign rally in Kiawah, S.C., on Thursday. (Jim Watson / AFP/Getty Images) The tiff between Donald Trump and Pope Francis on Thursday was the latest example of what’s become a persistent theme of Trump’s presidential campaign: caustic battles over religion, immigration … Read more

No ‘Lesson’ From Sirhan

The individual act of Sirhan Sirhan in assassinating presidential candidate Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was not the “first shot” in the terror war, as Michael Fischbach tries to imply (Commentary, June 2). It was no more an act of terror than John Hinckley Jr.’s or Lee Harvey Oswald’s. Maybe James Earl Ray’s assassination of Martin … Read more

Trump’s children take in millions overseas as president slams Biden’s son

Three of President Trump’s children — Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric — at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 2016. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press) Eric Trump sounded shocked that Hunter Biden hadn’t drawn more criticism for his lucrative business deals in Ukraine and China while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president. “Can … Read more

Trump describes assassination attempt during RNC speech

Former President Trump with the firefighter gear said to belong to Corey Comperatore, who was slain in Saturday’s assassination attempt, during the Republican National Convention on Thursday. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Former President Trump said Thursday that divine providence saved him from being killed by an assassin in his first public remarks since … Read more

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