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Erika D. Smith

Erika D. Smith

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Big Oil Should Pay to Help Rebuild Los Angeles

Big Oil Should Pay to Help Rebuild Los Angeles
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Erika D. Smith

Trump Can’t Erase Trans People With a Stroke of His Sharpie

Trump Can’t Erase Trans People With a Stroke of His Sharpie
27.01.2025 4

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LA’s Wildfire Dilemma: Rebuild Quickly or Rebuild Safely?

“My whole life was in that house.” I’ve lost track of how many friends, acquaintances and strangers have said those words to me in the week...

16.01.2025 20

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Presidents Shouldn’t Play Politics With Fire

As (bad) luck would have it, both President Joe Biden and Governor Gavin Newsom were in Los Angeles this week, arriving just in time for some of the...

10.01.2025 4

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Newsom Shouldn’t Rely on EV Mandates to Persuade Drivers

President-elect Donald Trump has no love for electric vehicles. If there were any doubts about how that might shake out in terms of policy once...

09.01.2025 30

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Democrats’ Problem With Big Cities, in Three Charts

There’s one moment from the presidential campaign that’s still stuck in my mind: when Donald Trump told the Detroit Economic Club what would...

01.01.2025 40

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Palm Springs’ Reparations Show Cities Are Still Policy Labs

For progressive Democrats, the ones who pushed hardest for racial justice in corporations, universities and government agencies, things are looking...

16.12.2024 4

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Harris Should Aim for California in 2026, Not the White House in 2028

As Democrats continue to bicker about how to move forward from their disastrous election, it’s worth noting that at least one prominent person...

09.12.2024 10

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Sanctuary Cities May Be Having an Identity Crisis

President-elect Donald Trump this week confirmed that he plans to somehow declare a national emergency and enlist the help of the US military to...

25.11.2024 40

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Black and Latino Americans Can’t Let Trump Divide Them

For Democrats, getting over Kamala Harris’ decisive loss to Donald Trump is beginning to resemble the seven stages of grief. Following shock and...

11.11.2024 3

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Could California Help Democrats Win the House?

With Kamala Harris and Donald Trump making their final, celebrity-studded pitches to voters, many Americans probably wish this nail-biter of a...

02.11.2024 2

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Liberal Californians Have Reached Their Breaking Point on Crime

For as long as Donald Trump has been in politics, he has bashed California as a “radical hellscape” of crime, homelessness and drugs that only a...

27.10.2024 1

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The ‘Preemptive Big Lie’ Targets Arizona’s Indigenous Voters

The nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice recently released a new report with a conclusion so old that most Americans probably know it already: “...

10.10.2024 2

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Are Arizona Republicans Trump-Weary Enough to Vote for Harris?

To drive the freeways of Phoenix right now is to be overwhelmed by campaign billboards. “Republicans for Harris,” too many of them to count,...

08.10.2024 1

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Kari Lake Is Losing and She’s Taking MAGA With Her

A year ago, Donald Trump thought he had a winner in Kari Lake, an election denier who had just lost her race for Arizona governor. “She’s an...

28.09.2024 2

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Trump Offers Scare Tactics on Housing. Harris Has a Plan.

For the first time in a long time, housing affordability is a major issue in the presidential race. And as we edge closer to Election Day, it has...

26.09.2024 3

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Cornel West Is Taking a Bigger Risk Than He Admits

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abandoned his campaign for president last month and endorsed Donald Trump, Republicans undoubtedly breathed a sigh of...

18.09.2024 2

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Harris Owns a Gun. She Believes in Safety, Too.

There was a moment during Tuesday night’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump that caught a lot of people...

13.09.2024 10

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Harris Knew Exactly How to Rattle Trump at the Debate

Going into Tuesday night’s debate in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris needed to do two things: Prosecute the case against her opponent,...

11.09.2024 2

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Harris Took Housing Off the Backburner. Keep Her Talking.

If Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, manage to win in November, many will undoubtedly look back on...

29.08.2024 1

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Harris, Obama and the Cost of Running for President While Black

For all the talk about how Kamala Harris may become the first woman of color elected president, one person most definitely isn’t talking about it:...

26.08.2024 40

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Nancy Pelosi Deserves a Thank You

Nancy Pelosi could have walked onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night and gloated like the hero she is. She didn’t....

22.08.2024 2

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Kamala Harris and Black Women Redefine What’s Normal

Two months ago, few would have believed that millions of Americans would suddenly become obsessed with electing a Black woman from California...

19.08.2024 2

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Harris Can't Let Republicans Define Her Record on Crime for Her

Try as they might, Republicans haven’t been able to come up with a line of attack that sticks to Vice President Kamala Harris. Calling her a “DEI...

12.08.2024 3

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Yes, Mr. Trump, Kamala Harris Is Black.

The leadership of the National Association of Black Journalists will be rightly and roundly criticized for a very long time for letting Donald...

01.08.2024 7

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Mark Kelly Would Propel Harris’ Presidential Bid

Vice President Kamala Harris has less than two weeks to select a running mate — and probably the only good thing about that is that she has plenty...

28.07.2024 10

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