The British Labor Party chose a new leadership, with gains made by allies of party leader Neil Kinnock. Less than a month after losing a hard-fought general election to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives, Labor’s 229 members of Parliament chose a “shadow cabinet” of 15 that reflects Kinnock’s soft-left political stance. The hard-left Tribune Group … Read more
Medicare for all received a shot of adrenaline the other day as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who wants to be president, reintroduced legislation intended to provide health coverage to all Americans and put private insurers out of business. As usual, conservatives responded by mischaracterizing and outright lying about the proposal, and by framing the debate … Read more
Two years ago, Iraqi officials in Baghdad seemed convinced they had finally won an undeclared ally in President Reagan, and that the United States was moving from a position of neutrality on the Iran-Iraq War to one of covert support for Iraq. Reagan had sent two senior envoys to Baghdad–Donald H. Rumsfeld and Richard W. … Read more
WHEN FBI AGENT JON LIPSKY PROPOSED IN JUNE, 1988, THAT they “do Rocky Flats,” Assistant U.S. Atty. Ken Fimberg gave him the type of look you’d direct at someone who’d just said something intriguing but utterly wacky. Lipsky was neither surprised nor offended, for he more or less shared this response. They were sitting in … Read more
In a speech promised last spring and delivered five days before the presidential election, Democratic nominee Bill Clinton on Thursday indicted the Bush Administration for failing to mount a stringent attack against the spread of AIDS and laid out a plan he said would reverse that course. Speaking to several hundred people in the rotunda … Read more
Sound Nightclub in Hollywood on June 19, 2021. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) California lawmakers on Wednesday rejected legislation that would have allowed West Hollywood, San Francisco and Palm Springs to authorize weekend alcohol service until 4 a.m. at bars, nightclubs and restaurants. Senate Bill 930 by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) … Read more
George Bush was in an exuberant mood in the days after his inauguration as vice president in January, 1981. As he welcomed visitors to his new office suite inside the Old Executive Office Building, he could hardly contain the thrill he felt at being there. But when the conversation turned to his political future, Bush’s … Read more
Republican Sen. Gordon J. Humphrey has triggered a controversy in a GOP congressional race by saying that a woman candidate should not be running because she has two small children. About two dozen supporters of Republican Betty Tamposi denounced Humphrey outside the Statehouse on Wednesday and characterized his remarks, made in an interview in the … Read more
Charging that Proposition 187 is immoral, unhealthful and unworkable, leaders of California’s medical establishment and the civil rights community Monday urged voters to reject the ballot measure on illegal immigration and asked the federal government to take steps to prevent it from being implemented if it is approved on Election Day. In a letter to … Read more
Mayor Gavin Newsom, center, waves to the crowds at the 34th annual Gay Pride Parade down Market Street in San Francisco in 2004. (DINO VOURNAS / Associated Press) It was an iconic image: Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, longtime partners and lesbian activists, embracing after being wed in San Francisco City Hall. The first same-sex … Read more
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