Opinion

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Opinion: Stop trampling on our universities

In the course of three days, six U.S.-based scientists have won Nobel Prizes. Every one of them studied or now works at America’s public universities. Five were affiliated with or educated by California’s system for higher education. President Donald Trump’s assault on universities, ...

Opinion: Trump mistakes 2020 video for what’s going on now

When over the weekend federal Judge Karin Immergut (a Trump appointee) blocked Trump from deploying Oregon’s National Guard to Portland, Trump said she “should be ashamed of herself” because “Portland is burning to the ground.” Trump promptly ordered the California National Guard to ...

Opinion: Democrats, stop being MAGA’s mommy

Exactly why are the Democrats trying to save Republicans from a drubbing in the midterms? Their shutdown of the government to stop cuts in health coverage does not work to their political advantage — or ultimately help those they purport to be protecting. Republicans running for ...

Opinion: Another slam dunk for chatbots doing the work

The secretary of defense opens his laptop late at night on Sept. 29. He logs on to his favorite AI chatbot. It greets him. Hi, Pete. What can I do for you tonight? Pete? I thought I asked you to call me Major Tough Guy. You’re absolutely right. You did. Thanks for setting me ...

Opinion: Trump faces generals in deadly game

When President Donald Trump dropped the bizarre suggestion last week that the military should use American cities as “training grounds” to fight what he called “an enemy within,” it sounded almost like old news. After all, Trump has talked like this for years. “Don’t take him ...

Opinion: Who will protect us from the protectors?

In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets of Portland, he quietly signed a Presidential National Security Memorandum that purports to federalize policing. The Memorandum, just like ...