Harold Meyerson

The Democrats officially have their front-runner. Howard Dean had already opened a sizable lead on the rest of the field before this week, but now that he’s been endorsed by the nation’s two most politically potent unions — the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the American Federation of State,......

Photo by Jack Gould "Some good things have happened" during his tenure as governor, Gray Davis noted defensively in his concession speech, and indeed they have. That Davis had to introduce this subject just as power was slipping irrevocably from his hands, however, suggests his grave limits as a politician......

Maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger is right. Maybe people are leaving California in droves for the Nevada desert or the nightlife of Salt Lake City. And maybe all the people who are leaving are Democrats. That’s just about the only way to make sense of the breathtaking CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of this......

Never mind the backlash against the driver’s-license bill. If Arnold and Arianna take their show on the road, the entire state will soon vote to restrict immigration. Wednesday night’s gubernatorial-candidate debate was as raucous as the usual debate is cautious, and for reasons entirely peculiar to the dynamics of the......

If it were done, the 9th Circuit has ordained, ’twere best done quickly — regicides and gubernatorial recalls being inherently messy and increasingly unpleasant undertakings that no one really wants to prolong. So we’re back to October 7, with races within races still unfolding. Barring a spectacularly good debate performance......

If it were done, the 9th Circuit has ordained, ’twere best done quickly — regicides and gubernatorial recalls being inherently messy and increasingly unpleasant undertakings that no one really wants to prolong. So we’re back to October 7, with races within races still unfolding. Barring a spectacularly good debate performance......

I. The Ghost of Bush v. Gore There’s separation of powers for you. Just when Democrat Gray Davis looks like he may survive the October recall, along come three Democratic-appointed judges to postpone the vote. Monday’s decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals didn’t merely......

With the recall election just four weeks away, it’s hard to recognize the Golden State these days. If you believe the bevy of right-wing and “pro-business” candidates running for governor, record high taxes have made the California economy look like Minsk under Brezhnev, and Californians are fleeing the state for......

Labor Day this year kicks off the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of LAANE — the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, which began life as the Tourism Industry Development Council and is commonly known as the living-wage campaign — and I know of no local group more worth......