For two months the cease-fire held, in the way these things hold in that part of the world — which is to say uneasily, with everyone watching the door. Then over the weekend the door opened. Iran sent three waves of missiles toward Israel. Israel struck back at launchers and petrochemical plants inside the Islamic
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In Los Angeles this week, on the floor of a vast 144,000-square-foot ballot processing center, the work stations sat largely empty. Outside, the days passed. Inside, the ballots waited. This is California
There is a ritual to California’s elections now, and the ritual is patience. The polls close, the night ends, and the counting goes on — for days, sometimes weeks, in a state
There is a particular kind of political theater that only California can stage, and on Tuesday, it raised the curtain again. Out of a field of sixty-one — sixty-one! — the voters
There are calls that change a war, and then there is the one President Trump placed to Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday — blunt, profane, and, by every account that has leaked since,
