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Donald Trump took his dog whistle down to Florida last weekend, where he reportedly told a room full of donors: "When you are Democrat, you start off essentially at 40% because you have civil service, you have the unions ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s abortion rate rose last year to its highest level in a decade as state legislation made it easier to get an abortion and thousands of people from states with abortion bans sought ...Read more

Let it be noted that Hamas raced to the bargaining table once it became evident that Israel was prepared to follow through on its vow to enter Rafah and to finish off the terror group. Strange how that works.

Strange, ...Read more

When you think of the Biden administration’s climate investments, you may imagine subsidies for Tesla drivers in affluent coastal cities. But those investments are helping Americans at all income levels, in both small ...Read more

About a year and a half ago, I became one of Those People who track how many steps they walk each day. I know there’s nothing magical about the daily 10,000-step target, but it’s a fun little pastime, made more fun by...Read more

Five years ago, Congress declared white supremacists and other far-right-wing extremists as the most significant domestic terrorism threat facing the United States.

Now, it is fair to argue the biggest danger to the well-...Read more

Not to beat a dead, ah, horse, but how can we ignore the spectacle that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has made of herself during her publicity tour for her just-published memoir, "No Going Back?"

Over the weekend, she ...Read more

Los Angeles adopted an array of ambitious climate and transportation goals years ago under former Mayor Eric Garcetti, who had the relatively easy job of setting long-range targets knowing he would be out of office when ...Read more

In just nine years, the oldest Gen-Xers will reach Social Security’s normal retirement age of 67. But they have a rude awakening when they learn that the program’s trust fund is empty, leaving it able to pay out only ...Read more

Neither of the two presumptive major party presidential nominees wants to seriously discuss Social Security. But political cowardice is no substitute for statesmanship. The longer Congress does nothing, the worse the ...Read more

Now that the 2024 presidential nominees for both major parties have been decided, what promises to be a truly historic campaign is in full swing. And while primary elections will continue across the country through early ...Read more

Nonprofits are feeding supporters a steady stream of petitions to sign and requests for checks. Here’s how to make them effective citizen advocates.

Since I founded the anti-poverty lobby RESULTS in 1980, I have been a ...Read more

Rioters. Let’s call them exactly what they are.

What’s happened – and still happening – at institutions like Columbia, USC, UCLA and elsewhere might have charitably been called a free speech exercise at some point...Read more

I pulled into a gas station near San Francisco, and my eyes popped out of my head: $6 a gallon!

Here we go again, the roller coaster of gas prices. And it’s not just in California. Since January, the national average ...Read more

For his 10th violation of Acting Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s gag order — this time for complaining about the supposed political affiliation of the jury — Donald Trump must pay another $1,000 ...Read more

She came out of the bathroom and he had stripped down to his underwear. He was waiting for her on the bed. He didn't ask about using a condom, and he didn't use one. Afterward, her hands were shaking so badly she couldn'...Read more

BOSTON — The state Republican Party is calling for an investigation into Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s “clear-cut violation” of public finance rules in mixing campaign funds and City Hall resources for a ...Read more