California
Column: Republican Kevin Faulconer tries to run his recall campaign as a policy wonk
The candidate most qualified by experience to replace Newsom is Kevin Faulconer, a throwback Republican, columnist George Skelton writes.
Opinion
Editorial: Welcome, Republicans, to the real, warming world
A bipartisan bill and new climate caucus are welcome changes, but what’s needed is an admission that climate change is reaching crisis proportions and fossil fuels are the driving force behind it.
Letters to the Editor: How principled conservatives can crush Trump’s Republican Party
Anti-Trump Republicans can save democracy by forming their own conservative party that peels away a small number of voters from the GOP.
Letters to the Editor: It’s time to treat the Republican Party as an anti-democratic faction
The Republicans’ reluctance to condemn political violence should serve as a warning of what’s to come in 2024 and beyond.
Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox proposes plan on California homelessness
Cox offers few details on how he would accomplish his goal of cutting homelessness in half over the next decade.
Politics
Column: How do you solve a problem like The Donald? California Republicans wrestle with Trump dilemma
While Caitlyn Jenner embraces the ex-president, fellow Republicans Kevin Faulconer and Lanhee Chen try to have it both ways.
Op-Ed: My front row seat to the radicalization of the Republican Party
As a political reporter, I have seen four Republican revolutions — Ronald Reagan’s, Newt Gingrich’s, the Tea Party’s and Donald Trump’s — each of which took the party farther right.
Caitlyn Jenner, a longtime registered Republican, hedges on party status amid recall fight
California gubernatorial recall candidate Caitlyn Jenner, a Republican, hedged on her party status in a CNN interview, saying, “Maybe call me a Libertarian.”
A place to sleep, party and kill: Abandoned L.A. buildings become MS-13 gang ‘destroyers’
Three people were slain within the blighted rooms of the MS-13 destroyer on Rampart Boulevard in 2017 and 2018, authorities said.
Analysis: How the Supreme Court has tilted election law to favor the Republican Party
The court has freed Texas and other Southern states to add voting restrictions, and has given the GOP an edge in the battle to control Congress.