Opinion

Following the rapid spread of the virus, which was first detected in Hubei Province in China at the end of 2019, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar declared a public health emergency, prompting action by other U.S. agencies. As this is a rapidly evolving epidemic, it is essential the U.S. response remain well-coordinated and nimble. … [Read more...] about Rep. Michael Burgess, MD: Coronavirus epidemic prompts robust and rapid response from US public health system

Harris never recovered from that body blow and dropped out of the presidential race. The same can be said for former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, an intelligent and woke Democrat who was blistered for his personal attack on Biden. Like Harris, Castro was undone and then done in one debate moment. … [Read more...] about Adam Goodman: Presidential debates matter – ads alone won’t get someone elected

Third, even if 100% of its roster were bona fide gang members, CalGang can give no clue to the stories behind the names. I think often of children I have seen go through the system, like Mahlon and Trevon, whose tragic case I reviewed 14 years ago. The two brothers grew up in the Crenshaw area gang minefield known as the Jungle. Mahlon twice refused to join his neighborhood gang. After his third refusal, the gang grabbed his baby brother Trevon and shot him dead. Mahlon joined the gang that day and landed on the CalGang roster the next month. Gang registries not only fail to account for the Sophie’s Choice we leave children like Mahlon to face, but compound their plight. … [Read more...] about Op-Ed: The only way to improve California’s gang database is to abolish it

At issue are 30 to 50 people with confirmed COVID-19 infections who are quarantined at Travis Air Force Base in Northern California, where American evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship were taken. Last week the federal government told California officials that the patients would be transferred to a site in Anniston, Ala., for treatment. Rather than see sick Californians, many of them elderly, shipped to another state after having gone through an ordeal on the boat, California officials started looking for facilities here that could provide the care needed. … [Read more...] about Editorial: We’re facing a global coronavirus outbreak. Now isn’t the time for NIMBYism and fearmongering

Feminists have long had a complicated relationship with Megyn Kelly. On one hand, she’s a woman who improbably climbed the slime-soaked ladder at Fox News, a person who isn’t afraid to confront and humiliate apoplectic men, be it on her former Fox show or on the stage of a presidential primary debate. She’s stood up for maternity leave, spoken eloquently about sexual assault victims, and working mothers. But then there was the whole “Santa was white” thing. And her strange obsession with the New Black Panthers. And her silence during the Ailes scandal, and the fact that she withheld some anecdotes about Donald Trump—anecdotes that could have been materially important to some voters—until her book was published on the day after the election. … [Read more...] about It Was the ‘Wonder Woman’ of Times, It Was the Megyn Kelly of Times