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Bill Boyarsky and Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, two experienced California political experts, argue about politics from Los Angeles to Sacramento to Washington.
Bill Boyarsky is former city editor of the Los Angeles Times and was also a columnist, bureau chief and political reporter for the newspaper. Previously, he reported on politics for the Associated Press in Sacramento.
He is the winner of three Pulitzer Prizes for team reporting.
Bill is the author of two biographies of Ronald Reagan, a biography of Jesse M. Unruh; Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times, and, with co-author Nancy Boyarsky, Backroom Politics.
Sherry Bebitch Jeffe is a retired professor of the practice of public policy communication at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California.
Sherry has been political analyst for KCAL-TV, NBC4 Los Angeles NBC's "Today" show and the BBC, where she was an analyst on American politics for programs in London, Scotland and Wales. In 2006, she was a nominee for the Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for NBC4’s news feature, “Decision 2005: A Voter’s Guide.
She has also appeared on MSNBC, CNN, Spectrum News 1 and Al Jazeera English and on radio shows in the United States and internationally.
Sherry has a Ph.D in government from Claremont Graduate University and a master's in political science from Rutgers, where she was a fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics.
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Health Care Chaos: The Nation's And Trump's
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Political And Other Wars
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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"Turkeys Of The Year" Awards
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Circling The Drain
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Great Day For Women, Bad Day For The GOP
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Elections 2025: A Preview Of The 2026 Midterms
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Destruction: A Way Of Life?
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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"These Are The Days Of Our Lives"
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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the-blame-games
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Don't Get Mad Get Even
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Trump. Kirk. The First Amendment.
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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The State Of Things
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Trump vs. Newsom: The Redistricting Civil War
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Ukraine. The Smithsonian. Redistricting Rumble
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Call Out the Troops?
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Election 2026: Redistricting Versus Epstein
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Hardball
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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"Oh what a tangled web we weave . . . "
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Immigration And Trump's War On California
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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FEMA, ICE, DHS: A Confusing And Disturbing Alphabet Soup
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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Our Last Independence Day?
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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"The Times They Are A- Changin'"
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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What's Next? Who Knows!
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Los Angeles To Trump: Back Off!
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Cracks In The Republican Agenda: Trump, Musk, Immigration
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Trump Vs. Academia
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May 30, 2025 |
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Budgets' Fallout And Trump's Failed Ambush
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May 22, 2025 |
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"Come Josephine In My Flying Machine"
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May 15, 2025 |
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When Is Old Too Old? When Is Compliant Too Compliant?
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May 08, 2025 |
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One Hundred Bottles Of Beer On The Wall...
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May 01, 2025 |
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California And Academia Vs. Trump
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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What A Mess! Politicians Still Stumped By Homelessness
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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California In The Trump Era
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Is The Cover-up Worse Than The Crime?
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Will The Good Guys Finally Win?
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Trump: Easin' On Down The (Wrong) Road
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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"Sinners Can Repent But Stupid Is Forever."
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Havoc. Confusion. New Denmark.
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Gulf Of Trump?
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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More Chaos
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Chaos!
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Lincoln Got It Right: "...If You Want To Test A Man's Character, Give Him Power."
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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"1984"?
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Disaster Politics
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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The Naughty List and Muzzling the Media.
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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It's "Kiss The Ring" Time; It's Running Scared Time.
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Will A Clown Car Cabinet Take Aim At California?
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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L.A. 2025
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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GOP Future, Dem Autopsy
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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The Post-Game Show
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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The Pre-Game Show
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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"Lies. Damned Lies And Statistics"
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Closing Strategies
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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As The (Political) World Turns
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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The V.P. Debate And Beyond
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Inside The City Of Angels
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Translating Trump, Retooling LA County
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Speech And Debate and Dogs and Cats
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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California, Dick Cheney, And Kamala Harris
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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The Final Lap
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Biden Aftermath. Biden Agonistes.
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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"Strong And Wrong Beats Weak And Right"
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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What Debate?
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Special Edition: Where Do We Go From Here?
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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"What Did I Miss?"
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May 24, 2024 |
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Winning Now Isn't Everything: Presidential Polls And Debates
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May 16, 2024 |
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From Gaza To The Campus: The Battle Continues
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May 06, 2024 |
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The Undercard
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Schiff. Garvey. Biden .Trump.
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Delay Of Game
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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The Chief And The Mayor And A Hot Primary
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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A Whiplash Election
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Missing From The State Capitol: News
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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"And They're Off."
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Stumbling Out Of The Starting Gate
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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"Cut, Squeeze And Trim:" Economics Drive California And Its Media
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Welcome To The New Year, A Lot Like The Old Year
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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To Be Continued: Gaza, Colorado, Abortion
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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A Good Year For L.A.'s Mayor. Not So Much For Academia.
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Congressional Exits: California Loses Clout
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Life Is Full Of Uncertainties
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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First Annual Inside Golden State Politics Turkey Of The Year Awards
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Words Matter--And They Should
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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"The Times: How The Newspaper Of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, And The Transformation Of Journalism"
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Anti-Semitism. Islamophobia. Global And Local Politics.
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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The "Trust Deficit" In Politics
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Israel. Hamas. California.
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Where Are We Heading?
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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And The Beat Goes On
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Notice
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Biden, Immigrants And Strikes
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Is Age "Just A Number"?
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Elections Have Consequences: Examples From Sacramento And Washington DC
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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"These Are The Days Of Our Lives"
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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The Media, The Debate and "The Man Who Wasn't There."
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Groundhog Day: More Trump Reality TV?
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Hot Labor, Abortion Rights, Indictment-Fueled Summer
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. DONALD J. TRUMP
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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DeSantis, Newsom, Bass And Barbie
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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The Politics Of The "New West"
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Ukraine, The CA Senate Race, Bass And Homelessness, A New CA Assembly Speaker
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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We're Back: Newsom For President? SCOTUS Versus Diversity?
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Trump And "Britain Trump": Politics Here And Across The Pond
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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A Briefing By Our Washington Correspondent
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Behind California's Looming Budget Deficit
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Politics, Economics, Race: A Volatile Mix
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May 11, 2023 |
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A Peek Under The Golden State's Dome
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May 03, 2023 |
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The California Connection To 2024: Harris, Newsom, McCarthy, Abortion, Water.
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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A Tale Of Two Women: Bass And Feinstein
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Everything But The Trump Show
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Progressives Win Big; Donald Trump Not So Much
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Guns. Again.
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Big Tests: Trump, Bass and L.A. Schools
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Freedom Of Speech: Gridiron And Dominion
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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California, Here Come The Republicans (Not You, Tucker).
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Potpourri: Freedom Of Speech, Cancel Culture, Dilbert And Judy Chu
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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The Days Of Bass And Biden
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The Week Of The Women: Feinstein And Haley
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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SOTU: "Annual National Root Canal"
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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The Mayor, The Chief, And More On The Classified Documents
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Monterey Park: An Insider's Perspective
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Classified Documents! Debt Limit! California Senate Race!
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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The Governor. The Mayor. The Congress. And The Cop.
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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The "Groundhog Day" Games
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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The January Sixth Report: Another Nail In The Trump Coffin?
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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2023: "Follow The Yellow Brick Road"
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Mid-term Conundrum: Glass Half Full? Glass Half Empty?
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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The Rise Of Anti-Semitism--Again
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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New Realities And Old Problems
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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The Next Los Angeles
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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The Post-Game Show
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Democracy On The Ballot?
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Pre-election Punditry: Part Two
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Pre-election Punditry
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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L.A.'s October Surprise
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Si, Se Puede: Will Latino Voters Decide The 2022 Elections?
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Big L.A. Debates: Winners And Losers
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Fight On For LA Mayor
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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"Politics And Poker": Bass, Caruso, Newsom
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Mike Bonin: A Frank Farewell To City Hall
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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The Complex Politics Of August
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Politics After Kansas
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Newsom Boomlet: Troubles Ahead?
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Erwin Chemerinsky On The Supreme Court, The Abortion Decision And Indicting Trump
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Meanwhile...
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Did America Deserve Its Fourth Of July Celebration This Year?
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Will The Politics Of Abortion And Insurrection Impact The Midterm Elections?
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Anatomy Of Democracy's Subversion
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Spawn Of Watergate
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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The Post-Game Show
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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The Pre-Game Show
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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This Just In: Guns And Elections
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May 26, 2022 |
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Conversations With Candidates For L.A. Mayor: Kevin de Leon
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May 20, 2022 |
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Money, Abortion And The L..A. Mayor's Race
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May 12, 2022 |
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Conversations With Candidates For L.A. Mayor: Mike Feuer
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May 03, 2022 |
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The Rodney King Riots 30 Years Later: What's Changed? What Hasn't?
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Conversations With Candidates For L.A. Mayor: Karen Bass
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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A Tale Of Two Issues: Guns And Abortion
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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"Take This Job..."
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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"Which Way L.A.?"
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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The TikTok War
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Politics In The Time Of War
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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The State Of The Union: Putin Encroaches
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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The Los Angeles Mayor's Race: A National Weather Vane?
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Super Bowl! Super City? Super Hype?
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Grassroots Power Grab: Pointing Toward A Right Wing Future?
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Health care. Homelessness. Help! How?
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Abortion. Crime. SCOTUS. Elections.
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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They're Off And Running: Biden, Bass, DeLeon And Many More
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Gavin's In Good Shape, Biden Not So Much
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Is Democracy Dead--Yet?
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Tracking Two Pandemics: Covid 19 and Voter Suppression
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Gavin Takes On Texas; Eric Confronts The Hill
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Donald, Joe, Kamala and the MSM: What's Next?
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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How Did We Get Here? The Schneider Perspective
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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We're Ba-a-a-ck!
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Steve Lopez vs. City Hall
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Today's Battlegrounds: Schools and Cargo Ships
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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"Nobody's On Nobody's Side."
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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What a Mess!
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Summer's Rocky End: Newsom's Stock Rises, Biden's Falls
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Gavin, Larry and Donald Shrink the GOP
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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The Politics of Fear and Turnout
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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California and Kabul: Part III.
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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California and Kabul: Part Deux
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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California And Kabul
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Revenge Of The Suburbs
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Jury's Out On Infrastructure And Kamala
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Quality Of Life Issues Drive California Politics
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Is It Better To Be Feared Than Loved?
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Too Early To Celebrate?
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Race In The Classroom And The Polling Place
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Democracy?
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Too Much Hate, Not Enough Water
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May 27, 2021 |
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Questions Of Equity: Mideast Conflict, California Budget
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May 20, 2021 |
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The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg
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May 13, 2021 |
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Is The Republican Party Imploding?
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May 06, 2021 |
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Deconstructing Madam Speaker With Susan Page
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Rodney King To George Floyd: Can Reform Save The Day?
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Police Shootings: A Dilemma Forever?
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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From Bridges To Baseball: America Divided
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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The One That Doesn't Dwell On Covid
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Journalism And A Racist World
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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When "Cancel" Politics Becomes "Cancel" Policy: CA and DC.
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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When "Cancel" Politics Becomes "Cancel" Policy: CA and DC
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Will Biden's Covid Relief Package Squelch Newsom Recall?
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Recall, Pandemic and The Rock--Oh, My
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Amazing Grace, Amazing Misogyny
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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The President, "The Former Guy," And The California Recall
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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"Is This America?"
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Uncivil Wars
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Vax Mess!
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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"Land of Hope And Dreams"?
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Did The Media Miss The Story?
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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"American Carnage"
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Agism, New Blood And A Worried Glance Back
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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The Golden State Loses Its Luster
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Becerra: Another Bright Spot For California And The Rest of The Country
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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The Myth of the Latino Monolith
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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American Diversity--Impacting Elections from Georgia to Orange County
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Biden In Charge. California In the Spotlight. Trump In Trouble?
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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California And The Nation: Record Turnouts, Tight Races
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Whither the Supreme Court? And a Peek At Hot California Congressional Races.
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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A Gentler--Not Kinder--Presidential Debate
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Political Potholes and California Ballot Propositions: On the Rocky Road to Election Day
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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California Sends a Favorite Daughter Into Battle
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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The End of Civilization As We Know It?
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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The Rocky Road To Election Day Gets Rockier
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Trump and Newsom, Strange Political Bedfellows and a Strange Political World
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Donald, Bob, Covid and Chaos
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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The presidential campaign ignites and the California legislature flounders
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Donald, Melania, Joe and Kamala
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Michelle, Kamala, Nancy and Donald
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Kamala! Kamala! Kamala!
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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The media's challenge: Reporting the pandemic election.
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Asian Americans join Latinos as targets of Trump's bigoted rhetoric
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Pandemic Politics: Is Trump Channeling Newsom? Is Newsom Channeling Trump?
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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Bigger Than Politics: The Future of Public Education
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Electoral college, the pandemic, Trump's psyche: What a mess!
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Newsom, Trump, Roberts: Politics and Policy
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Trump: Wild on the trail
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Are Latinos being ignored in the debate over police brutality
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Jun 20, 2020 |
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Protests: Anger and hope
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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The protests: Our takes
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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Disruption
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May 28, 2020 |
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The Media, Obamagate and Gavin Newsom
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May 22, 2020 |
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Woes: Budget and political
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May 14, 2020 |
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Newsom, Biden, and the poor
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May 07, 2020 |
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Coronavirus: Tracing, Privacy—a Challenge for California
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Searching For Joe Biden, Voting By Mail
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Social Media, Politics and the Coronavirus
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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The Media:Covering Politics and the Pandemic
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Politics And Policy In The Time of Coronavirus
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Leadership
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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MIXED BAG: Polls, politics and the virus
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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Sexism and the Presidential Race
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Mar 10, 2020 |