Abortion access wins when it’s on the ballot. In many states, it isn’t
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Tucked inside the West Virginia Statehouse is a copy of a petition to lawmakers with a simple request: Let the voters decide whether…
Here’s state of abortion rights in U.S. two years after Roe overturned
Judges, state lawmakers and voters are deciding the future of abortion in the U.S. two years after the Supreme Court jolted the legal status quo…
Attacks on Trump, Biden’s, mental acuity loom over presidential debate
For those with questions about the leading 2024 presidential candidates’ mental acuity, or those involved in stoking the increasingly heated spin online around such questions,…
Biden and Trump shun precedent, debate commission in matchup
In a little over a week, Frank Fahrenkopf will be just another member of the TV audience watching as Joe Biden and Donald Trump tangle…
California debates removing involuntary servitude from Constitution
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers have revived a proposal that could ask voters to ban involuntary servitude from the state Constitution, a measure they rejected two years…
Poll: Many voters get their information from social media, even if they don’t trust it
In California, where a ballot often contains pages of candidates and ballot measures, most voters rely on the state-provided guide for election information, a new…
Column: Stop playing politics on retail theft crackdown
SACRAMENTO — It’s hardball season in California’s state Capitol, and we’re not talking baseball. At times like this, I think of two all-star political philosophers: Otto…
Californians less likely to vote don’t like presidential candidates, poll shows
Most Californians say they’re likely to vote in the November election, but among those who aren’t sure, there’s a common reason: They don’t like the…
Tough-on-crime measure officially qualifies for November ballot
SACRAMENTO — A ballot measure to impose harsher criminal penalties for drug possession and theft, altering the controversial Proposition 47 passed in 2014, has qualified for…
Nevada’s electronic voting ideas concern election security experts
SCHURZ, Nev. — Members of the Walker River Paiute Tribe have watched the boundaries of their land recede over time, along with the waters of the…
Column: Biden is old. Trump is too. Only one would trash Constitution
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s age was back in the news last week, thanks mostly to a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal announcing: “Behind closed…
Nevada, Arizona follow California’s abortion ballot measure strategy
LAS VEGAS — Nevada organizers last month celebrated a flood of voter signatures in support of placing a measure ensuring abortion rights on the November ballot.…
Changes to retail theft bills may splinter Prop. 47 initiative support
SACRAMENTO — Legislative leaders plan to fast-track bills to crack down on retail theft in California and are using the package of reforms to pressure supporters…
Trump VP hopeful Tim Scott announces $14M Black voter outreach effort for Trump
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., said he's seen a shifting attitude of working-class racial minorities, particularly Black men, toward the Republican Party. File Photo by Joe…
California lawmakers are giving up a bid to repeal a nearly 75-year-old anti-public-housing measure
A nearly 75-year-old anti-public-housing rule will remain in California’s Constitution as lawmakers are planning to withdraw a measure from the November ballot that would have…
Biden and Trump win primaries in some of 2024’s last primary contests
NEW YORK — President Biden and former President Trump won their parties’ primaries in several states Tuesday, some of the last contests on the 2024 primary…
Trump felony conviction offers a character test for America
When he isn’t fetishizing the fictive cannibal Hannibal Lecter — “a wonderful man” — Donald Trump rhapsodizes over the gangster Al Capone. “He was seriously…
Could the guilty verdict cost Donald Trump the election?
How much will Donald Trump’s conviction in the New York hush money case matter come November? The obvious answer is that nobody knows. Still, I…
Trump guilty verdict yet to show impact in presidential polls
The historic criminal conviction of Donald Trump dominated media coverage in recent days, but the former president’s legal defeat has so far made only a…
Elon Musk is angry about immigration. Will it shape the 2024 election?
WASHINGTON — Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal were speaking to a crowd of business leaders in 2013 about creating their first company when the conversation…