Column: Trump’s demonization of Biden is not normal
WASHINGTON — After almost four years of Donald Trump in the White House, it has become all too easy to forget how abnormal his presidency has been…
Column: Money will be tight. Americans will suffer. Will the top 10% step up?
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% and more than doubled the federal estate tax…
Column: The chained CPI: Another secret tax hike for the middle class slipped into the GOP tax bills
The devastating effects that many provisions of the Republican Senate and House tax bills would have on the middle class have been well documented, thanks…
Peter Andre slams new Snow White film for ‘putting actors out of work’ in scathing column
Peter Andrew has lashed out at Disney's upcoming Snow White remake in his New magazine column, slating the film for putting actors out of work…
Column: The United States careens toward a constitutional crisis
Congress is cowed; that’s one supposedly coequal branch of government down. But federal courts are proving more resistant to Donald Trump’s trampling of laws and…
Column: The Trump administration has a free-speech problem
I have to wonder: When will Vice President JD Vance condemn his own administration?Last month, Vance, a self-described foreign policy “realist” who scorns the practice…
Column: Katie Porter has a shot at being California’s next governor, but there’s a big hitch
Newsletter You're reading the L.A. Times Politics newsletter Anita Chabria and David Lauter bring insights into legislation, politics and policy from California and beyond. In…
Matt Dawson column: ‘I have not seen a complete England performance like that for many years’
Defensively, England put nobody in the rucks and they were actively backing away from competing for the ball.They just had a white wall and basically…
Column: Nothing efficient about Musk and Trump’s toxic lack of empathy
I don’t know how Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly got my phone number, but a text from him landed the other day with a thud.“Elon…
Column: Trimming the budget shouldn’t hurt the most vulnerable so much
They’re having big problems in China.According to the country’s health commission, roughly a third of China’s residents are overweight, with 16% considered obese. Another study…
Column: When it comes to Trump’s economy, the adults have left the room
The great and powerful Oz, as Donald Trump models himself, never warned Americans that the road to his promised Golden Age would be full of…
Column: The Homer Simpson gloss on President Trump’s tariff philosophy
There’s a classic episode of The Simpsons in which Homer gets a gun. He thinks his awesome gun is great for everything: home defense, opening…
Column: Newsom’s money grab targets bond funds for climate projects
Newsletter You're reading the L.A. Times Politics newsletter Anita Chabria and David Lauter bring insights into legislation, politics and policy from California and beyond. In…
Column: Trump’s reversal of race and gender progress faces an obstacle
The Trump administration is hell-bent on “restoring” this country to an entirely fictional time when white people succeeded based purely on merit, people of color…
Column: L.A. should add a LeBron James statue in Star Plaza
The Los Angeles Lakers have won 20 of 24 games and now, after an uneven start to the season, have NBA fans wondering whether the…
Column: Trump brags about American power while he trades it away
A staple of Donald Trump’s rally repertoire for years has been his claim that, under him, the United States is respected again in the world.…
Column: Trump gets little credit for foreign policy — for good reason
WASHINGTON — Last week’s NATO summit in London should have been a nice little success story for President Trump. For once he went to an international meeting…
Column: Many Californians fear that democracy is in peril
Newsletter You're reading the L.A. Times Politics newsletter Anita Chabria and David Lauter bring insights into legislation, politics and policy from California and beyond. In…
Column: Trump cheers Musk, but if disaster hits it will be president’s problem
WASHINGTON — For the last six weeks, President Trump’s demolition man Elon Musk has rampaged across the federal bureaucracy — freezing payments, firing workers and disabling entire…
Column: President Trump acts like Russian dictator Putin’s wingman
WASHINGTON — Last week, President Trump abruptly shoved U.S. foreign policy off one of its cornerstones.For nearly 80 years since the end of World War II, the…