An LA Timesman in Washington. Then: The domestic policy upheaval in the Age of Trump and traveling the nation to chronicle the 2020 election. Now: Politics. Energy. Money. Climate. Food. Cannabis. Techies. The West.
Evan Halper
National Reporter, Los Angeles TImes
Washington, D.C.
An LA Timesman in Washington. Then: The domestic policy upheaval in the Age of Trump and traveling the nation to chronicle the 2020 election. Now: Politics. Energy. Money. Climate. Food. Cannabis. Techies. The West.
That risk now awaits him on the presidential campaign trail. Since his election to the Senate from New Jersey in 2013, Booker has tamped down his fervor for charter schools. But the zeal with which he pursued school privatization in his hometown threatens to inhibit his path to the White House. He is not the only Democrat in that politically awkward spot.
Even as California aspires to a more sustainable, climate-friendly economy, the environmental degradation Bahram Fazeli witnesses daily is an unwelcome reminder of how much the state is held back by a federal government pushing in the other direction. The oil wells, refineries, metal-finishing businesses and hazardous waste facilities in Wilmington and Huntington Park, where the environmental activist works, leave residents of those primarily Latino communities acutely exposed to health risks.
During the presidential campaign, Democrats expressed persistent anxiety that Joe Biden’s coalition would collapse as soon as it ousted President Trump from the White House — it felt too ideologically conflicted, too polarized, too tenuous to hold. But Biden’s initial Cabinet selections and other senior appointments have won a broad embrace that suggests his aptitude for navigating such a fragile political landscape was underrated.