Harold Meyerson

The conventional wisdom couldn’t be clearer. Centrist squares off against liberal. Megacelebrity dukes it out with nerd. Unprimaried incumbent goes up against challenger staggering from a brawl in which he was both slimed against and sliming. Ten times out of 10, the unprimaried centrist megacelebrity wins. Except, I’m not so......

TROUBLE IS COMING DOUBLEfor Jane Harman. In her congressional district, which stretches along the coast from Venice to the harbor, the veteran Democrat faces a primary challenge — which, if not quite a threat, is now more than a nuisance — from Democratic activist Marcy Winograd. In the Capitol, Harman’s......

IT’S ENDORSEMENT SEASON here at the Weekly, and since term limits have whacked an entire generation of incumbents and compelled us to interview, by actual count, a gazillion candidates over the past several weeks, many of those interviews, truth be told, tend to run together in our collective semiconscious. (After......

THEY’RE TRYING TO CENTER LOS ANGELES again. The umpteenth iteration of the give-L.A.-a-downtown project features the combined efforts of Frank Gehry, Eli Broad, the mayor, the county supes, a good deal of business and just about all of labor. This time, it may just work, though it’s still unclear how......

WASHINGTON, D.C. — From Lafayette Park, in front of the White House, you could see them approaching from afar, trooping down 16th Street toward the Mall, a vast throng of immigrants, dressed chiefly in white, waving and draped in more American flags than anyone had seen since George M. Cohan......

SO WHAT’S WITH THESE IMMIGRANTS? They’ve been here a while. They know that Angelenos don’t turn out for massive demonstrations. In San Francisco people do that, and in New York and Washington, D.C., of course. But this is L.A. People don’t come downtown, and even if they did, there’s no......

FOR ROB REINER, IT’S THE BEST AND WORST OF TIMES. Revelations that the state commission on early childhood that he chairs funded an ad campaign for universal preschool, at the very moment that signature gatherers were circulating petitions for his universal preschool initiative, and that the commission had his campaign......

IN THE BEGINNING, MARTIN LUDLOW was the answer to Miguel Contreras’ prayer. The huge influx of Latino immigrants into Los Angeles had placed real stresses on black-Latino relations in L.A., and on the relations between the African-American community and labor, a movement reflective, in both its leaders and its members,......

BY NOW, WE KNOW whom Karl Rove was talking to when he accused the Democrats of being a permanently pre-9/11 party several weeks ago. His target audience, it’s increasingly apparent, was Republican senators and congressmen who are growing uneasy with the administration’s defense of warrantless wiretapping and the National Security......

YOU KNOW OUR PRESIDENT IS SERIOUS when he drops his “g”s off words ending in “ing.” That’s when he’s just folks. That’s when he breaks through the formality and levels with us, American to American. That’s the tip-off that this is the line in the speech that really matters. I......