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 in June 2026, where the count drags and the questions sharpen. On Friday morning, Los Angeles’ top federal prosecutor said out loud what
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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,
The deal, such as it was, is off. Iran has stopped talking. And it has begun to organize instead. On Monday, after Israel’s strikes on Beirut, Tehran pulled the plug on the
