Xavier Becerra has built no institutions, advanced no distinctive governing philosophy, and left little bearing his signature. He’s California’s next governor.
There’s a new scandal in the travel industry: Airlines are offering slight discounts to families and other groups that buy tickets together. “BREAKING: As if flight prices weren’t ugly enough, two major U.S. airlines are still charging solo passengers higher fares than groups of two or more,” reported travel writer Kyle Potter. “United & especially […]
At one point, it was the campus of a small charter high school serving hundreds of students, but as the number of school-age children in Los Angeles continued to decline, the school could never break even. Now the building sits empty, marred by holes punched in the walls, widespread water damage, and char marks from […]
The final countdown has officially begun. As President Donald Trump goes into his last two years as president, he is only one of six presidents to have entered his last two years following the ratification of the 22nd Amendment, and therefore constitutionally precluded from running again. Like Trump, every one of those predecessors experienced midterm […]
Everytown for Gun Safety has spent more than a decade building itself into one of the country’s most influential gun-control organizations. Founded in 2014 through the merger of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action, the organization has used political spending, litigation, research, and lobbying to advance stricter firearms laws. Its efforts have included […]
The poorest households in Tuesday’s electorate and the richest voted the same way. Families earning under $30,000 went Democratic by 59 to 39, and families earning over $300,000 went Democratic by 61 to 39. Between those two brackets lies everything politics is supposed to be about, and the poll found two points of daylight. It […]
One of the most popular and beloved characters in children’s literature, Winnie-the-Pooh, recently became a centenarian. Created by the brilliant English writer A.A. Milne, the self-described “bear of very little brain” who carried a “hunny” pot and had great adventures with friends including Christopher Robin, Piglet, and Eeyore has long been a source of pleasure […]
On Oct. 27, voters across Israel went to the polls in a pivotal parliamentary election that culminated in severe electoral gridlock. The governing coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured 53 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, falling short of the 61-seat majority required to form a government outright. Just eight days later, on Nov. […]
I work for the military in a small building in the middle of nowhere with roughly eight other guys for 12 hours a day. The building I work in allows no outside electronics inside. There are no phones, no Spotify, no doomscrolling. All we have to pass the time between work is to play cards […]
“At last,” Socrates asks in Plato’s Republic, “the tyrannical man is left for us to consider, his change from the democratic man, his character after the change is accomplished, and his mode of life, whether miserable or blessed?” At last, yes. The midterm election results for the historical pattern, the routine flipping of popular opinion […]
I’m interested in understanding compulsory military service, an experience so very different from my own, so I recently spoke with former Army Sgt. Cliff Cahoon, who was drafted during the Vietnam War. The conversation has given me much to contemplate. Cliff graduated from Ingraham High School in Seattle in 1967. The Vietnam War was raging […]
