Harold Meyerson

Photo by Ted SoquiWe don’t negate elections in America. Not lightly. Not like this. Not by the Congress overturning the expressed and considered judgment of the voters as to who should be their president. Not by the Congress wadding up and tossing away the results of a further referendum, conducted......

I. As the World Moves Right The first thing — the first political thing — you should know about the Weekly is that we popped onto the scene just six months after the passage of Proposition 13. That is, we were conceived as a Left paper — sometimes New Left,......

Photo: AP/Wide WorldI. The Republicans: Down and Out on Capitol Hill The revolution is over. While last week's election may have been a knock in the head to the Republican Party generally, it was a dagger through the heart of the Republican right. As moderate GOP governors swept to victory......

What has become of the California Republican Party? Less than a week before the general election, the party that has controlled the Governor's Office for the last 16 years, that once sent Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to the White House, seems poised for an election-day wipeout. Attorney General Dan......

"Laboratories of democracy" - that was what Louis Brandeis called state governments when the century was young and progressivism was slowly working its way from the hinterlands to the nation's capital. Before the New Deal, it was the states - Bob La Follette's Wisconsin, Al Smith's New York, Hiram Johnson's......

October is shaping up as a banner month for fans of systemic breakdown. In Washington last week, the neo-Puritan Republican Congress voted to define the criteria for presidential impeachment down to the level of lying to cover up an affair. Not to be outdone, the financial system emerged from the......

The onetime head of the County Employees Union, where he built the labor-community coalitions that saved the county health system in the restructuring of 1995, and where he also mobilized student opposition to Proposition 187, Gil Cedillo was elected to the Assembly in a 1997 special election. In his year......

The lists of activists in Los Angeles is long and varied, but over the years there has been a small cadre of men and women who have been a constant force in shaping progressive causes. For the past couple decades, Aris Anagnos has functioned as progressive L.A.'s indulgent uncle, or......

It's a long, diverse and impressive list of activists that runs in this issue, an imposing array of agitators who make L.A. a better place to live. And yet, and yet . . . the net effect of the whole here is less than the sum of its parts. Progressive......

II. Protector of the Law How much legal sense does the Starr Report make? On his allegations of abuse of power - which hold that Clinton was acting impeachably when he appealed his claims of executive privilege all the way to the Supreme Court -Starr has overreached wildly. His allegations......