The new law offers newsrooms tax credits for retaining and hiring journalists. Its backers hope it can do much more.
Gavin Newsom
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Can a Bernie-Backed Populist Fix California’s Home Insurance Crisis?
As insurers flee wildfire risk, the leading candidate for insurance commissioner campaigns on “Natural Disaster Insurance for All,” but even fellow progressives are skeptical.
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Women Are Getting Slammed in Trump’s Economy
Women are losing jobs, leaving the workforce, and reporting high levels of financial insecurity.
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Gavin Newsom’s Tragic Mistake on Homelessness
In his all but certain presidential run, the California governor will be haunted by his noble pledge to provide permanent housing for the homeless, and his failure to give them temporary shelter.
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Make California a G7 Member
The Golden State is poised to join vital international organizations as the Trump administration retreats from them.
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My Disenfranchised California Republican Neighbors Should Take It Up With Their Party
Really—please do.
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Why Democrats Won
Donald Trump’s unpopularity, the fact that candidates met the moment in their elections, and the logic of off-year elections propelled the opposition party to a big victory.
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The Judge Standing up to Trump’s Portland Invasion
“Freedom,” wrote George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, “is the freedom to say two plus two make four. Once that is granted, all else follows.” But what if the test is whether a president can add two and two and get in the neighborhood of four? What if the president says 2+2=10,000? Is that close enough […]
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Why Andy Beshear Is a First-Tier Presidential Contender
If he runs for president, the Kentucky Governor has a proven ability to win red-state voters in the general and a populist streak that can prevail in the primaries.
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The Republican Disaster Relief Disaster and the Democratic Path Forward
Trump’s high rejection rate of disaster aid requests is indicative of a radical libertarian view of the federal government, which Democrats know how to skewer.
