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Newsom Tussles With Local Officials Over Homelessness

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Throughout Gavin Newsom’s governorship, he and ...

Newsom Tussles With Local Officials Over Homelessness

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Throughout Gavin Newsom’s governorship, he and ...

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California’s War Over Charter Schools Rages On in Court

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The decades-long wars among the kingdoms of medieval ...

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Why Did the California Senate Shunt a Cost-Cutting Housing Bill?

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Last month, RAND, a prominent think tank based in San...

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Fresno’s Crime Beat Didn’t Prepare Me for What I Saw on a Ride Along

Anthony W. Haddad The Millennial View For almost two years, I’ve written on the crime beat in Fresno — missing persons, homicides, arsons, D...

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The MAGA Revolution Threatens America’s Most Innovative Place

Science sometimes advances not by design but by happenstance. Thirty years ago a graduate student in chemical engineering at the Massachuset...

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California’s High Living Costs and Rampant Poverty Sharpen Its Economic Divide

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Forty years ago, I wrote a series of 14 articles for ...

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Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat

Nicholas Kristof OpinionOpinion by Nicholas Kristof on May 21, 2025. The question I get most often is: What can we do to take our country ba...

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Test Your Memorial Day Knowledge With This Quiz

Memorial Day is when we pause and honor those who gave their lives for our freedom. Some were famous men who died in battle. Others were unk...

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Gavin Newsom’s Off-the-Mark Budget Numbers Undermine His Credibility Again

This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised state budget assume...

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The Trump-Supporting Christians Accusing Jews of Antisemitism

In The New York Times this weekend, Katie J.M. Baker described a fundraising pitch that the Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank t...

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Demonstrators protest outside the Center for Disease Control, in Atlanta, after the Trump administration began mass layoffs of 10,000 staffers at U.S. health agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services, including the FDA, CDC and the National Institutes of Health, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. April 1, 2025. REUTERS/Megan Varner/File Photo
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Palestinians pray during the funeral of a person who was killed while heading to a Gaza aid hub, along with three others who were killed during an Israeli strike, as they gather at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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AB Hernandez, center, flashes a sign as she shares the first-place spot on the podium with Jillene Wetteland, left, and Lelani Laruelle during a medal ceremony for the high jump at the California high school track-and-field championships in Clovis, Calif., Saturday, May 31, 2025. In a rules compromise, AB Hernandez shared first place in the high jump and triple jump in the California high school championship, and shared spots on the awards podium, too. (Adam Perez/The New York Times)
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