Updates in Policy and Government
- Barabak: Antonio Villaraigosa is dying to run against Kamala Harris for governor. Here's whyon May 23, 2025
The former L.A. mayor says Harris personifies a Democratic Party that's lost its way. He says beating the former vice president would be a blow to party elites.
- If you want to understand Trump's environmental policy, read Project 2025on May 23, 2025
The Trump administration says it isn't connected to Project 2025. But the administration has already accomplished about 70% of Project 2025's environment-related recommendations.
- Contributor: We all saw Biden's decline in real time. The scandal is how few people caredon May 23, 2025
Biden, bless his heart, is boring. Trump clamors to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral. Guess who got the attention?
- Arellano: Back in the news, Albert 'Little Al' Robles still has a lot of bones to pickon May 23, 2025
The more he talked, the more it became evident former Carson Mayor Albert Robles wants to be seen as the crusader he's always imagined himself to be — and is annoyed that he's not.
- Orange County D.A. says his workplace was a miserable 'lions' den,' in court testimonyon May 23, 2025
Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer is grilled in civil trial over alleged retaliation.
- Supreme Court upholds for now Trump's firing of two independent agency officialson May 23, 2025
The decision is the latest in which the court's conservative majority sided with the president's power to fire agency officials in violation of long-standing laws.