Thomas Daschle

Hilda Solis Approved by Senate Panel

Associated Press reports that the nominee for Labor Secretary, East L.A./San Gabriel Valley Congresswoman Hilda Solis, has been approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Her nomination now goes before the full Senate. Last week Solis' confirmation ran aground after ... More >>

Hilda Solis' Husband Has Tax Problems

Now it's Hilda Solis' turn. According to the Associated Press, Barack Obama's nomination to be be Labor Secretary has had her confirmation hearings put on hold because facts have emerged about her husband's tax payments -- or lack of them. Yesterday Solis' husband, Sam Sayyad, got around to paying $ ... More >>

Queer Town: The Obama Pool Report

Rather than watch the Republican National Convention or the U.S. Open in tennis, I covered Michelle Obama's visit to Los Angeles on Wednesday night as a "pool reporter." A pool reporter is someone who's chosen by a political campaign to cover an event that would otherwise be closed to the press. I ... More >>

Friends in High-Rise Places

Developers make big plans for Westside, write big checks for Antonio

Gays on the Ropes

Democrats in denial blame gays for Bush’s victory

Homo Hate

Kerry loses to Rove’s anti-gay hysteria

A Populist Make-over

Meet John Edwards, the corporate man

The Anti-PATRIOTs

Unlikely allies oppose sweeping police powers

The Burning Men

Forest fires rage in the West while politicians try to turn prevention into pork

Time for Damage Control

The Bush lies are the least of our worries in Iraq

The Final Frontier

Depending on whom you ask, stem-cell research is either a medical godsend or further proof that God is dead.

Letters

I’m Linda, Fly Me

The real reason Tom Daschle didn’t run for president

After Gore, the Deluge

The morning-after line on the candidates

Look Homeward, Pollster

The little bit of Lott in all of us

The Bully Pulpit

Hollywood’s not-always-welcome role in national politics

Powerlines

Without vision, the party — well, a Senate majority — perishes

How the Democrats Blew It

The blame starts with Daschle and Gephardt

The Genuine Article

Paul Wellstone, 1944–2002

New Fault Lines

Peaceful Warmongers

Case of Spinelessness

What Dick Gephardt and the L.A. Times have in common

Patriotic Gore

The former veep breaks loose, and Democrats (some of ’em) act like (gasp!) an opposition party

A Baghdad Diary

Journey into the abyss

The Old Order Trembles

And who knows what -- in our economy and our politics -- is about to give way?

One Nation Over God

Party Animals

Gray has a blast; Dick, a sour time

Davos, American Style

The state of global protest

Where’s the Rest of It?

The Democrats’ curiously incomplete election-year program

Behind Bush

Those “wag the dog” Democrats

W.'s Way

Talks like Clinton, thinks like Reagan

The Big Heist

Bush plan taxes decency, candor and virtue — but lays off the rich

The Pretender

Illegitimate and ill at ease, George W. Bush begins what looks to be a retro presidency