by jpitney | Jul 15, 2025 | California Politics, Public Opinion
Mark Z. Barabak: A recent UC Irvine poll found that residents, by a 2-to-1 margin, believe California is headed on the wrong track, a mood consistent with other gauges of Golden State grumpiness… A poll conducted by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental...
by jpitney | Jul 14, 2025 | Bipartisanship, Civility
At With Honor, Rye Barcott reflects on the legacy of David Gergen: Leadership at its best is service to others. If this were a ranked-order list, this might be the first bullet for David’s advice on leadership, though it is also fitting as the last....
by jpitney | Jul 13, 2025 | Congress, Foreign Policy, Presidency, War Power
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: In the Iran case last month, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) introduced concurrent resolutions in their respective chambers prohibiting the president from going to war with Iran. Kaine...
by jpitney | Jul 12, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Law
Filmmaker Mary Strause made a docuseries critical of UnitedHealth. The companies used the threat of litigation to coerce streaming services to take it down. CMC alum David Enrich at NYT: In legal letters and court filings, UnitedHealth has invoked last year’s murder...
by jpitney | Jul 11, 2025 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists, Local Government, Newspapers
From Muck Rack: In 2000, many Americans lived in a community with journalists — people whose job it was to cover school board decisions, announce small business openings and closures, root out corruption at city hall, warn commuters about road work and trumpet the...
