Politics

Nurse Guy Vandengerg works at Ward 86, an outpatient HIV clinic, at San Francisco General Hospital. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) California saw a decrease in the number of women who died giving birth in 2013, as the maternal mortality rate climbed across the country, according to state officials. But expectant black mothers across … Read more

Angela Davis, 42, is a feminist, author and perennial vice presidential candidate on the Communist Party U.S.A. ticket. She first drew world attention when the Free Angela campaign emerged after her arrest for murder in connection with a 1970 shoot-out at the Marin County Courthouse. Today she teaches ethics and women’s studies at San Francisco … Read more

Demonstrators rally at the Pennsylvania state Capitol in Harrisburg on Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31. (Marc Levy / Associated Press) A federal judge on Friday partially blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of an “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the … Read more

The last question of Tuesday night’s debate was the kind of query that tests the cleverness of an accomplished politician. It also – quite unexpectedly — gave each candidate the opportunity to address one of Mitt Romney’s worst moments of the campaign. That’s because, curiously, Romney raised the issue himself. “What do you believe is … Read more

Protesters denounce President Trump’s policies on Saturday in New York. (Joseph Frederick / Associated Press) Opponents of the Trump administration took to the streets of communities large and small across the U.S. on Saturday, decrying what they see as threats to the nation’s democratic ideals. The disparate events included rallies in midtown Manhattan and in … Read more

Former President Trump speaks at the Republican Party of Florida Freedom Summit on Nov. 4 in Kissimmee, Fla. (Phelan M. Ebenhack / Associated Press) The question to former President Trump last week was a softball, served up as an opportunity to rebut his critics. “They want to call you a dictator,” Sean Hannity told him … Read more

Once again it has taken grieving relatives to point out that the Bush administration will exploit even a heroic death for its own partisan purposes. As with the widows of Sept. 11 who demanded that our obfuscating leaders investigate what went wrong on that terrible day, or the wounded Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, who resisted … Read more

President Trump shows reporters a doctored chart after receiving a briefing on Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office of the White House on Sept. 4. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press ) Even as Hurricane Dorian roared up the East Coast on Thursday and hammered the Carolinas with dangerous wind and storm surges, President Trump refused … Read more

Conservatives found much to chuckle about after Democratic state lawmakers last week proposed, once again, a tax on sugary sodas, along with limits on cup sizes. “We get it, too much sugar isn’t great for you,” Assembly Republicans said in a smirking, smart-alecky statement. “But what’s next — criminalizing pizzas over 18 inches? A Dorito … Read more

Letters purportedly written by at least two dead people landed on the desk of Utah Atty. Gen. Mark Shurtleff earlier this year, imploring him to go easy on Microsoft Corp. for its conduct as a monopoly. The pleas, along with about 400 others from Utah citizens, are part of a carefully orchestrated nationwide campaign to … Read more