Politics

Venezuelan migrant Yender Romero shows the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) One app on his cellphone, which he said he used to apply for asylum in the U.S. and is waiting on an answer, at a migrant tent camp outside La Soledad church in Mexico City on Jan. 20. (Fernando Llano / Associated Press) … Read more

Luke Mayville helped pilot the “Medicaid Mobile” throughout Idaho, gathering signatures to force a statewide vote on Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. (Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times) Nebraska state Sen. Adam Morfeld, like healthcare advocates in many conservative states, was beginning to lose hope last year that his poorest constituents would … Read more

Realtor Tony Cardenas led four other Democrats vying to succeed Assemblyman Richard Katz (D-Sylmar), and GOP Assemblywoman Paula Boland of Granada Hills moved a step closer to a new job in the state Senate on Tuesday as early ballots were tallied in San Fernando Valley-area races. Assemblyman James Rogan easily won the GOP nomination to … Read more

When Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein opted out of the governor’s race, Rep. Jane Harman was quick to respond to a reporter’s query for reaction. “It’s a great opportunity for a woman,” she said provocatively over the car phone. The announcement would wait a few weeks, but she was in. For someone who left the Golden … Read more

President Biden visits Virginia’s Prince William Forest Park on April 22, Earth Day. (Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press) President Biden spent his Earth Day in a national forest this year with an explicit pitch to young people: a climate jobs corps intended to excite Gen Z the way John F. Kennedy’s Peace Corps inspired … Read more

Protesters hold signs outside the Los Angeles office of California’s U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Feb. 14 to demand she hold a town hall meeting. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images) San Diego Rep. Scott Peters has held town halls for years. The reality? It was common for the Democrat’s staff to outnumber the constituents who … Read more

Home to Stanford University and the Silicon Valley, the congressional district halfway down the San Francisco Peninsula is a magnet for politicians with uncommon ambition. In the past 10 years, three Republican congressmen have used the seat as a springboard to run for the U.S. Senate: maverick Pete McCloskey, computer entrepreneur Ed Zschau and, this … Read more

This may be Jane Harman’s first run for public office, but she is not a political neophyte. Neither are her kids. “Vote Reginomicks, NOT!!” advises a red, white and blue cartoon face of Ronald Reagan that her 10-year-old son, Dan, made for her campaign office. The boy’s attitude is not surprising, considering that his mom … Read more

Kamala Harris, the state’s first African American district attorney, beat an incumbent known for an unconventionally leftist approach to law enforcement by embracing many of his positions while denouncing him as incompetent. Harris, 39, a career prosecutor, trounced eight-year incumbent Terence Hallinan in an election Tuesday in which she captured the black vote — traditionally … Read more

Darrell Issa is discussing the market value of intimidation. His business, after all, is fortifying the autos of America. “A guy violates your car,” he says, “you want something ferocious, one step removed from vengeance.” And so his line of car alarms fairly bristles with menace. There is the Viper, the Rattler, the Python, the … Read more