Evan Halper writes about a broad range of policy issues out of Washington D.C., with particular emphasis on how Washington regulates, agitates and very often miscalculates in its dealings with California. Before heading east, he was the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Sacramento, where he spent a decade untangling California’s epic budget mess and political dysfunction.
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As the Biden administration mulls paying farmers to mitigate warming, climate economists question if the push is backed by science or pressure for Big Ag subsidies.
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The two governors were once lauded for pandemic leadership but now are fighting for political survival.
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House Minority Leader McCarthy sees a chance to ride his warm relationship with Trump into the House majority and a job he’s wanted for years — speaker.
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Turns out there is a deep state, and it fights to make bureaucratic language understandable. Call them enemies of the opaque.
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Trump is gone, but the onslaught of state litigation against Washington isn’t. Republican attorneys general are embracing the Democrats’ strategy.
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El Senado votó el sábado, 57-43, para absolver al ex presidente Trump de incitar la insurrección en el Capitolio de Estados Unidos el mes pasado.
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Senators’ bipartisan 57-43 guilty vote Saturday fell short of the threshold to convict President Trump of inciting last month’s Capitol insurrection.
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Trump’s attorneys present an abbreviated defense at his Senate impeachment trial in an effort to move the proceedings quickly to a vote.
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Xavier Becerra fue elegido para el gabinete de Biden porque parecía el tecnócrata adecuado para la época. El Partido Republicano lo ve como algo más: un objetivo ideal.
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Xavier Becerra was picked for Biden’s Cabinet because he seemed the technocrat to fit the time. The GOP sees him as something else: a ripe target.