“I am announcing today I will not run for reelection in 2024 but intend to accomplish as much for California as I can through the end of next year when my term ends,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein explained in a statement…
Kevin de León, a Los Angeles City Council member, knows how Democratic Party cannibalism works. Seeing Dianne Feinstein as vulnerable prey, he primaried her in 2018 and, under California’s strange election laws that deny parties the right to place nominees…
A Berkeley nudity activist who recently lived in a van with an “Ain’t no sunshine until capitalisms gone” sticker affixed to it and was described as “progressive” and “mentally ill” by his incarcerated ex-partner morphed into a MAGA extremist over…
I actually do not like writing negatively about Kamala Harris. She is a zero, and I always fear I have wasted my readers’ time, an hour or two of my life, and some 2,000 precious English words every time she…
Sacramento “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle,” wrote the city of San Francisco’s namesake, St. Francis of Assisi. Catholics revere the Italian friar — canonized in 1228 — for his great love…
The dominant media is an unreliable arbiter of political labels. While it is quick to cast even the most prosaic Republicans as “hardline conservatives,” it is far more circumspect in its description of Democrats. To enhance the appeal of figures…
“It seems to me pretty clear that progressive views need to be expressed within a Biden administration,” said Bernie Sanders last week. “It would be, for example, enormously insulting if Biden put together a ‘team of rivals’ — and there’s…
Perhaps the most moving words uttered during Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings were spoken by Sen. Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. “I have never been more proud of a nominee than I am of you,”…
As I emerged from the Jewish Holy Season, marking the beginning of Year 5781 since Creation, I was jolted from the spirituality and meaningfulness of Sukkot, Sh’mini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah into the reality of the New Filth that permeates…