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California has nine national parks — the most of any state. It also has the most polluted national parks in the country. We need to change that
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Even as Congress zooms in tightly on Ukraine, the rest of us shouldn’t lose sight of the bigger, broader story about the failed Trump presidency. -
Many young black voters refused to vote in 2016, reflecting exactly the messages and memes spread by Russian bots on social media.
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Chelsea Becker used meth while she was pregnant and gave birth to a stillborn baby. She’s a poor excuse for a mother. But she’s not a murderer.
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Police officers with rap sheets still wear badges and enforce laws like those that they themselves broke.
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Trump demeaned the former ambassador to Ukraine as she testified in an impeachment hearing.
Enter the Fray
Political operative Roger Stone’s defense has much in common with the argument some Republicans are making against impeachment.
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No, no, no, no. This whole Democratic nomination fight is going in the wrong direction. We should be seeing more candidates dropping out, not jumping in.
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Republicans argued that impeachment witnesses refused to let Trump set foreign policy. But falling in line to serve Trump’s political interests isn’t part of the job.
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While other Trump administration figures look to the courts for guidance, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney just said no to a House subpoena.
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The Supreme Court allows a long-odds lawsuit to proceed against Remington Arms over use of its Bushmaster rifle in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
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Rep. Adam B. Schiff is acting more like a prosecutor than a congressman.
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Even as Congress zooms in tightly on Ukraine, the rest of us shouldn’t lose sight of the bigger, broader story about the failed Trump presidency.
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California has nine national parks — the most of any state. It also has the most polluted national parks in the country. We need to change that
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What I don’t understand about U.S. school shootings is: Who is the enemy?
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Many young black voters refused to vote in 2016, reflecting exactly the messages and memes spread by Russian bots on social media.
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Chelsea Becker used meth while she was pregnant and gave birth to a stillborn baby. She’s a poor excuse for a mother. But she’s not a murderer.
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A former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, is insulted on Twitter by President Trump because she dares to speak truth to power.
A free tuition ride only makes it harder for colleges to pay for what kids need — small classes, good advisors and easy access to required classes.
Any meaningful discussion to cut healthcare costs has been thrown aside by a political debate over a totally unrealistic plan.
GOP impeachment attack dog Rep. Jim Jordan can pretend to be confused all he likes. President Trump did try to extort a ‘favor’ from Ukraine.
Mass shooters differ depending on their targets. School shooters like the gunman at Saugus High aren’t like synagogue attackers or those who attack malls.
It was bracing to see William Taylor and George Kent, actual statesmen, in action.
Twin religious doctrines — about caring for God’s creation and asserting mankind’s dominion over it — fight it out in our public policy and our foundational ideas.
The Trump-Netanyahu alliance has left a large share of Democratic voters, including Jews, outraged that their support for Israel has been used to endorse a headlong march toward apartheid.
After the first day of hearings, the folks who have wanted to impeach Trump since he won the presidency still do, and the folks who don’t still don’t.
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All presidential elections are uniquely consequential, but a good case can be made that the next one is the most important of our lives. The time has come to undo the great mistake of 2016 and drive Trump out of office at the ballot box.
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The GOP seeks to call impeachment witnesses who will back their theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election and Burisma was corrupt.
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Is there a line Trump could cross that would lead Republicans to put national interest ahead of party? That question looms larger than his abuses.
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The Supreme Court weighs whether it’s ‘reasonable’ to stop a car because the owner’s license was suspended.
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Mike Bloomberg’s record as mayor of New York City prepared him to be a better president than Donald Trump. But can he excite Democratic voters?
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We sometimes characterize the law as a clear set of rules, but the law isn’t always so straightforward. This is as true of DACA as it was for slavery.
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Turkey may target the Kurdish military leader in Syria for assassination, using the U.S. drone program its model.
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Student journalists at Northwestern University apologized for printing the names and photos of student protesters. They shouldn’t have.
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Trump administration’s proposed rules changes are designed to deter immigrants legally in the U.S. from becoming citizens. Application fees would jump.
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Since Proposition 187, the Democrats have had almost total control of California. Today, we have a housing crisis, widespread homelessness and worse.
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A resident of Santa Clarita pleads with the public not to forget the students of Saugus High School when they vote or speak out.
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For decades, it was only authoritarian regimes that required federal documents for internal travel. Now, with Real ID, the U.S. is about to join them.
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Saying that it’s fine for colleges to base admissions partly on an applicant’s wealth is like arguing for trickle-down economics.
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A judge says border agents can’t just trawl through the contents of your phone.
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For California, sprawl is proving to be the test of the state’s commitment to fighting climate change at home.
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The Democratic takeover of the Virginia Legislature this month gives hope for the Equal Rights Amendment to finally meet the required 38 states.
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We’ve seen this too many times before and are destined to repeat it because, when it comes to gun violence, we let paralysis overwhelm public safety.
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