Opinion | Why Is Gavin Newsom Seeking Common Ground With the Right?
I was open to the idea behind Gavin Newsom’s new podcast, in which the California governor has been breaking out of his political bubble to talk at length with right-wing…
Opinion | There Is a Liberal Answer to Elon Musk
Democrats have a problem that runs deeper than the 2024 election. They have a problem that runs deeper than Elon Musk’s assault on the government. Look at the places they…
Gavin Newsom Splits With Democrats on Transgender Athletes: ‘It’s Deeply Unfair’
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, embarking on a personal post-mortem of the failures of his Democratic Party, suggested this week that the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports was…
Hollywood Work Was Already Drying Up. Then the Fires Hit.
“Is this our get-out-of-jail-free card?,” the cinematographer Gabriel Patay, 40, said he wondered after he and his wife, a documentary producer, lost the home they spent nine years restoring.“We are…
Trump Calls Officials Handling Los Angeles Wildfires ‘Incompetent’
President-elect Donald J. Trump offered fresh criticism early Sunday of the officials in charge of fighting the Los Angeles wildfires, calling them “incompetent” and asking why the blazes were not…
OpenAI, Microsoft, and Adobe Back California’s AI Watermarking Bill
OpenAI, Microsoft, and Adobe are publicly supporting the AB-3211 bill that would require tech companies to label AI-generated content in California. Watermarks must be added to the metadata of photos,…