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Gavin Newsom

I Believe California Has a Right to Exist

March 9, 2026

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The Right Is Becoming What It Hates

Conor Friedersdorf

February 27, 2026

Gavin Newsom’s Father Issues

February 24, 2026

The New Shadowbanning Panic

Kaitlyn Tiffany

January 28, 2026

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Gavin Newsom’s Record Is a Problem

Marc Novicoff and Jonathan Chait

January 22, 2026

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‘Looksmaxxing’ Reveals the Depth of the Crisis Facing Young Men

Thomas Chatterton Williams

January 19, 2026

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The Front-Runner

January 6, 2026

A portrait of Gavin Newsom

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The Anti-MAGA Majority Reemerges

David A. Graham

November 5, 2025

Democrats Don’t Seem Willing to Follow Their Own Advice

September 22, 2025

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MAGA World Is So Close to Getting It

August 22, 2025

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Republicans Want to Redraw America’s Political Map

July 30, 2025

Representative Lloyd Doggett, a Texas Democrat, uses a district map to discuss concerns over the GOP’s proposed redistricting of the state.

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The 2028 Presidential Race Has Begun

July 24, 2025

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The Week That Changed Everything for Gavin Newsom

June 14, 2025

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The Protests Are Just Starting

David A. Graham

June 10, 2025

Protesters in LA line up against a wall of National Guard members with shields

Trump’s Gross Misuse of the National Guard

Juliette Kayyem

June 10, 2025

National Guard deployed on the streets of Los Angeles in 1992.

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Trump vs. California

David A. Graham

June 9, 2025

A dotted outline of California and an image of Trump speaking

Averting a Worst-Case Scenario in Los Angeles

Conor Friedersdorf

June 8, 2025

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What the Fires Revealed About Los Angeles Culture

January 24, 2025

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Hydraulic Revolution

Alejandra Molina

December 2024 Issue

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Gavin Newsom Can’t Help Himself

April 15, 2024

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Ron DeSantis Debates His Grievances

December 1, 2023

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Gavin Newsom Is Not Governing

Conor Friedersdorf

April 21, 2023

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Gavin Newsom, the Ron DeSantis of the Left

Conor Friedersdorf

August 24, 2022

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The Democrats’ New Spokesman in the Culture Wars

Ronald Brownstein

June 17, 2022

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The Wrong Way to Tackle Inflation

March 26, 2022

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The California Recall Could Be a Road Map for Democrats

Ronald Brownstein

September 9, 2021

What California’s Recall Election Says About America

Edward-Isaac Dovere

August 27, 2021

Gavin Newsom, looking pensive and worried.

The Trouble With the Gavin Newsom Recall

Ronald Brownstein

May 13, 2021

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Gavin Newsom’s Nation-State

April 21, 2020

California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks in front of the hospital ship USNS Mercy that arrived into the Port of Los Angeles.