Inside Pelosi’s Leadership Playbook
For more than 15 years, Representative Nancy Pelosi she has been a powerhouse fund-raiser for her party and a lightning rod for the right. Here’s how she’s done it.
Critic’s Notebook: Pittsburgh Report: Five Places for Healing Through Art
A vibrant visual arts community offers museums and alternative spaces in which to commune and ponder how to move forward.
Now for the Hard Part: Getting Californians to Buy Legal Weed
One year after marijuana legalization California sales are down, tax revenues are well below forecasts and the black market thrives.
Trump Says Mattis Resignation Was ‘Essentially’ a Firing, Escalating His New Front Against Military Critics
“What’s he done for me? How has he done in Afghanistan? Not too good,” Mr. Trump said of his former defense secretary. “I’m not happy with what he’s done in Afghanistan, and I shouldn’t be happy.”
NASA’s New Horizons Mission Releases Snowman-like Picture of Ultima Thule
At a Wednesday news conference, scientists will announce some of the results from the flyby of the most distant object ever visited.
Mitt Romney Faces Counterattacks From Trump Allies
Several Republicans assailed Mr. Romney, including the party leader who is also his niece. One Republican official urged colleagues to change party rules to ensure Mr. Trump’s renomination in 2020.
Tech We’re Using: Hurricanes. Shootings. Fires. Time for an Editor’s Emergency Kit.
When news of natural disasters or man-made ones break in the U.S., Julie Bloom taps a variety of tools to communicate with reporters, edit stories and get them published.
Voting Issues and Gerrymanders Are Now Key Political Battlegrounds
The fairness of elections and voting have become political flash points in key states like Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Trump and Democrats Dig In After Talks to Reopen Government Go Nowhere
During the contentious meeting, the president made his case for a border wall and rejected Democrats’ proposals for reopening the government while the two sides ironed out their differences.
Overlooked No More: Karen Sparck Jones, Who Established the Basis for Search Engines
A pioneer of computer science for work combining statistics and linguistics, and an advocate for women in the field.
California Today: California Today: How Tech Surprised and Scared in 2018
Wednesday: Our Tech editor Pui-Wing Tam talks about what her team learned in 2018; a Rose Parade fire; and onscreen California geography goofs
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