Politics

State Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys) displays his smartphone as he urges lawmakers to approve a data privacy bill during a Senate floor session in June 2018. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) A landmark California law signed last year to enact the strongest privacy rules in the country and regulate the online marketplace of personal … Read more

Piers Morgan is taking aim at Alec Baldwin. This summer, Alec Baldwin’s manslaughter trial ended with a dismissal. It turns out that the court did not appreciate the prosecution’s alleged Brady violation. Some viewed this as a technicality. Others saw it as an overdue end to a baffling prosecution. Now, Piers Morgan, who openly sympathizes … Read more

Married couples across the U.S. have had access to no-fault divorce for more than 50 years. But some advocates for women worry over old comments from Vice President-elect JD Vance opposing no-fault divorce. (Matt Rourke / Associated Press) Married couples across the U.S. have had access to no-fault divorce for more than 50 years, an … Read more

I’m Russ Mitchell, climate and transportation reporter, filling in for Sammy Roth this week. He’s out reporting, and taking Thanksgiving Day off. Look for the next Boiling Point on Dec. 3. Regular readers of Boiling Point know my opinion of the electric vehicle public charging network that runs up and down Interstate 5: Unreliable. Frustrating. … Read more

Could Tuesday’s winner be history’s loser? If so, the Democrat’s bitter debate about the future may be unwarranted. The party came out of this year’s presidential election defeat with a plausible explanation–Michael S. Dukakis–and some grounds for optimism: the partial erosion of the GOP presidential coalition, simultaneous Democratic gains in Congress and vivid weakness in … Read more

Maggy Krell, center, arrives in Reno with a few busloads of volunteers in October. (Scott Sady / For The Times) Weeks before election day, more than 150 volunteers boarded early morning buses in Sacramento and traveled east, through the towering mountains of the Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest and across the Nevada border to convince voters to … Read more

Marchers turn out in downtown Los Angeles in 2006 to protest a House-passed immigration bill that opponents say would criminalize millions of immigrant families. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Donald Trump won’t be sworn in as our 47th president for two more months, but he’s already pleasing his base in one way: Undocumented immigrants … Read more

President Biden pardons Peach on Monday at the White House. He was joined by John Zimmerman, chair of the National Turkey Federation, and his son Grant. The tradition dates back to 1947. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) Hi, and happy Tuesday. There are 55 days until President-elect Trump is sworn back into office, and there … Read more

Joan Larsen, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, speaks at his memorial service in 2016. (Getty Images) The sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016 initially seemed to end hopes conservatives had for overturning Roe vs. Wade. He had been the court’s most outspoken opponent of the right to abortion … Read more

Mayor Lionel Wilson, a fixture in this city’s politics for three decades, was fighting off a nasty cold as he took his campaign for reelection to a hall filled with real estate agents recently. In past years, Wilson could have stayed home to nurse his ailment. He long ago endeared himself to Oakland business leaders … Read more