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Inside Golden State Politics — 278 episodes

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1

Here Comes Round 2

2

The Half-Time Show

3

Down To The Finish Line

4

"It Ain't Over Till It's Over!"

5

Eureka! California's Elections Wake Up

6

Lincoln-Douglas: Where Are You?

7

"Politics And Poker"

8

A Conservative View

9

And The Beat Goes On...And On!

10

Polls, Damn Polls, and the Governor's Race

11

"All Politics Is Local"

12

Everything But Epstein and Iran

13

Iran War And Governor's Race Occupy California Politics

14

The State Of The Union Analysis: Gloom And Doom

15

Colbert vs. Trump! Bass vs. Raman?

16

Election Law Warfare

17

Let the Games Begin—Er, Continue

18

California's a Test Case Again: Fire Chief, Trump, Tabloid Journalism

19

"As The World Turns"--On Trump

20

California's Budget Roller Coaster

21

From Monroe To Donroe: Manifest Destiny Meets Strongman Presidency

22

Covered California: Golden State Health Care Threatened

23

Health Care Chaos: The Nation's And Trump's

24

Political And Other Wars

25

"Turkeys Of The Year" Awards

26

Circling The Drain

27

Great Day For Women, Bad Day For The GOP

28

Elections 2025: A Preview Of The 2026 Midterms

29

Destruction: A Way Of Life?

30

"These Are The Days Of Our Lives"

31

the-blame-games

32

Don't Get Mad Get Even

33

Trump. Kirk. The First Amendment.

34

The State Of Things

35

Trump vs. Newsom: The Redistricting Civil War

36

Ukraine. The Smithsonian. Redistricting Rumble

37

Call Out the Troops?

38

Election 2026: Redistricting Versus Epstein

39

Hardball

40

"Oh what a tangled web we weave . . . "

41

Immigration And Trump's War On California

42

FEMA, ICE, DHS: A Confusing And Disturbing Alphabet Soup

43

Our Last Independence Day?

44

"The Times They Are A- Changin'"

45

What's Next? Who Knows!

46

Los Angeles To Trump: Back Off!

47

Cracks In The Republican Agenda: Trump, Musk, Immigration

48

Trump Vs. Academia

49

Budgets' Fallout And Trump's Failed Ambush

50

"Come Josephine In My Flying Machine"

51

When Is Old Too Old? When Is Compliant Too Compliant?

52

One Hundred Bottles Of Beer On The Wall...

53

California And Academia Vs. Trump

54

What A Mess! Politicians Still Stumped By Homelessness

55

California In The Trump Era

56

Is The Cover-up Worse Than The Crime?

57

Will The Good Guys Finally Win?

58

Trump: Easin' On Down The (Wrong) Road

59

"Sinners Can Repent But Stupid Is Forever."

60

Havoc. Confusion. New Denmark.

61

Gulf Of Trump?

62

More Chaos

63

Chaos!

64

Lincoln Got It Right: "...If You Want To Test A Man's Character, Give Him Power."

65

"1984"?

66

Disaster Politics

67

The Naughty List and Muzzling the Media.

68

It's "Kiss The Ring" Time; It's Running Scared Time.

69

Will A Clown Car Cabinet Take Aim At California?

70

L.A. 2025

71

GOP Future, Dem Autopsy

72

The Post-Game Show

73

The Pre-Game Show

74

"Lies. Damned Lies And Statistics"

75

Closing Strategies

76

As The (Political) World Turns

77

The V.P. Debate And Beyond

78

Inside The City Of Angels

79

Translating Trump, Retooling LA County

80

Speech And Debate and Dogs and Cats

81

California, Dick Cheney, And Kamala Harris

82

The Final Lap

83

Biden Aftermath. Biden Agonistes.

84

"Strong And Wrong Beats Weak And Right"

85

What Debate?

86

Special Edition: Where Do We Go From Here?

87

"What Did I Miss?"

88

Winning Now Isn't Everything: Presidential Polls And Debates

89

From Gaza To The Campus: The Battle Continues

90

The Undercard

91

Schiff. Garvey. Biden .Trump.

92

Delay Of Game

93

The Chief And The Mayor And A Hot Primary

94

A Whiplash Election

95

Missing From The State Capitol: News

96

"And They're Off."

97

Stumbling Out Of The Starting Gate

98

"Cut, Squeeze And Trim:" Economics Drive California And Its Media

99

Welcome To The New Year, A Lot Like The Old Year

100

To Be Continued: Gaza, Colorado, Abortion

101

A Good Year For L.A.'s Mayor. Not So Much For Academia.

102

Congressional Exits: California Loses Clout

103

Life Is Full Of Uncertainties

104

First Annual Inside Golden State Politics Turkey Of The Year Awards

105

Words Matter--And They Should

106

"The Times: How The Newspaper Of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, And The Transformation Of Journalism"

107

Anti-Semitism. Islamophobia. Global And Local Politics.

108

The "Trust Deficit" In Politics

109

Israel. Hamas. California.

110

Where Are We Heading?

111

And The Beat Goes On

112

Notice

113

Biden, Immigrants And Strikes

114

Is Age "Just A Number"?

115

Elections Have Consequences: Examples From Sacramento And Washington DC

116

"These Are The Days Of Our Lives"

117

The Media, The Debate and "The Man Who Wasn't There."

118

Groundhog Day: More Trump Reality TV?

119

Hot Labor, Abortion Rights, Indictment-Fueled Summer

120

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. DONALD J. TRUMP

121

DeSantis, Newsom, Bass And Barbie

122

The Politics Of The "New West"

123

Ukraine, The CA Senate Race, Bass And Homelessness, A New CA Assembly Speaker

124

We're Back: Newsom For President? SCOTUS Versus Diversity?

125

Trump And "Britain Trump": Politics Here And Across The Pond

126

A Briefing By Our Washington Correspondent

127

Behind California's Looming Budget Deficit

128

Politics, Economics, Race: A Volatile Mix

129

A Peek Under The Golden State's Dome

130

The California Connection To 2024: Harris, Newsom, McCarthy, Abortion, Water.

131

A Tale Of Two Women: Bass And Feinstein

132

Everything But The Trump Show

133

Progressives Win Big; Donald Trump Not So Much

134

Guns. Again.

135

Big Tests: Trump, Bass and L.A. Schools

136

Freedom Of Speech: Gridiron And Dominion

137

California, Here Come The Republicans (Not You, Tucker).

138

Potpourri: Freedom Of Speech, Cancel Culture, Dilbert And Judy Chu

139

The Days Of Bass And Biden

140

The Week Of The Women: Feinstein And Haley

141

SOTU: "Annual National Root Canal"

142

The Mayor, The Chief, And More On The Classified Documents

143

Monterey Park: An Insider's Perspective

144

Classified Documents! Debt Limit! California Senate Race!

145

The Governor. The Mayor. The Congress. And The Cop.

146

The "Groundhog Day" Games

147

The January Sixth Report: Another Nail In The Trump Coffin?

148

2023: "Follow The Yellow Brick Road"

149

Mid-term Conundrum: Glass Half Full? Glass Half Empty?

150

The Rise Of Anti-Semitism--Again

151

New Realities And Old Problems

152

The Next Los Angeles

153

The Post-Game Show

154

Democracy On The Ballot?

155

Pre-election Punditry: Part Two

156

Pre-election Punditry

157

L.A.'s October Surprise

158

Si, Se Puede: Will Latino Voters Decide The 2022 Elections?

159

Big L.A. Debates: Winners And Losers

160

Fight On For LA Mayor

161

"Politics And Poker": Bass, Caruso, Newsom

162

Mike Bonin: A Frank Farewell To City Hall

163

The Complex Politics Of August

164

Politics After Kansas

165

Newsom Boomlet: Troubles Ahead?

166

Erwin Chemerinsky On The Supreme Court, The Abortion Decision And Indicting Trump

167

Meanwhile...

168

Did America Deserve Its Fourth Of July Celebration This Year?

169

Will The Politics Of Abortion And Insurrection Impact The Midterm Elections?

170

Anatomy Of Democracy's Subversion

171

Spawn Of Watergate

172

The Post-Game Show

173

The Pre-Game Show

174

This Just In: Guns And Elections

175

Conversations With Candidates For L.A. Mayor: Kevin de Leon

176

Money, Abortion And The L..A. Mayor's Race

177

Conversations With Candidates For L.A. Mayor: Mike Feuer

178

The Rodney King Riots 30 Years Later: What's Changed? What Hasn't?

179

Conversations With Candidates For L.A. Mayor: Karen Bass

180

A Tale Of Two Issues: Guns And Abortion

181

"Take This Job..."

182

"Which Way L.A.?"

183

The TikTok War

184

Politics In The Time Of War

185

The State Of The Union: Putin Encroaches

186

The Los Angeles Mayor's Race: A National Weather Vane?

187

Super Bowl! Super City? Super Hype?

188

Grassroots Power Grab: Pointing Toward A Right Wing Future?

189

Health care. Homelessness. Help! How?

190

Abortion. Crime. SCOTUS. Elections.

191

They're Off And Running: Biden, Bass, DeLeon And Many More

192

Gavin's In Good Shape, Biden Not So Much

193

Is Democracy Dead--Yet?

194

Tracking Two Pandemics: Covid 19 and Voter Suppression

195

Gavin Takes On Texas; Eric Confronts The Hill

196

Donald, Joe, Kamala and the MSM: What's Next?

197

How Did We Get Here? The Schneider Perspective

198

We're Ba-a-a-ck!

199

Steve Lopez vs. City Hall

200

Today's Battlegrounds: Schools and Cargo Ships

201

"Nobody's On Nobody's Side."

202

What a Mess!

203

Summer's Rocky End: Newsom's Stock Rises, Biden's Falls

204

Gavin, Larry and Donald Shrink the GOP

205

The Politics of Fear and Turnout

206

California and Kabul: Part III.

207

California and Kabul: Part Deux

208

California And Kabul

209

Revenge Of The Suburbs

210

Jury's Out On Infrastructure And Kamala

211

Quality Of Life Issues Drive California Politics

212

Is It Better To Be Feared Than Loved?

213

Too Early To Celebrate?

214

Race In The Classroom And The Polling Place

215

Democracy?

216

Too Much Hate, Not Enough Water

217

Questions Of Equity: Mideast Conflict, California Budget

218

The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg

219

Is The Republican Party Imploding?

220

Deconstructing Madam Speaker With Susan Page

221

Rodney King To George Floyd: Can Reform Save The Day?

222

Police Shootings: A Dilemma Forever?

223

From Bridges To Baseball: America Divided

224

The One That Doesn't Dwell On Covid

225

Journalism And A Racist World

226

When "Cancel" Politics Becomes "Cancel" Policy: CA and DC.

227

When "Cancel" Politics Becomes "Cancel" Policy: CA and DC

228

Will Biden's Covid Relief Package Squelch Newsom Recall?

229

Recall, Pandemic and The Rock--Oh, My

230

Amazing Grace, Amazing Misogyny

231

The President, "The Former Guy," And The California Recall

232

"Is This America?"

233

Uncivil Wars

234

Vax Mess!

235

"Land of Hope And Dreams"?

236

Did The Media Miss The Story?

237

"American Carnage"

238

Agism, New Blood And A Worried Glance Back

239

The Golden State Loses Its Luster

240

Becerra: Another Bright Spot For California And The Rest of The Country

241

The Myth of the Latino Monolith

242

American Diversity--Impacting Elections from Georgia to Orange County

243

Biden In Charge. California In the Spotlight. Trump In Trouble?

244

California And The Nation: Record Turnouts, Tight Races

245

Whither the Supreme Court? And a Peek At Hot California Congressional Races.

246

A Gentler--Not Kinder--Presidential Debate

247

Political Potholes and California Ballot Propositions: On the Rocky Road to Election Day

248

California Sends a Favorite Daughter Into Battle

249

The End of Civilization As We Know It?

250

The Rocky Road To Election Day Gets Rockier

251

Trump and Newsom, Strange Political Bedfellows and a Strange Political World

252

Donald, Bob, Covid and Chaos

253

The presidential campaign ignites and the California legislature flounders

254

Donald, Melania, Joe and Kamala

255

Michelle, Kamala, Nancy and Donald

256

Kamala! Kamala! Kamala!

257

The media's challenge: Reporting the pandemic election.

258

Asian Americans join Latinos as targets of Trump's bigoted rhetoric

259

Pandemic Politics: Is Trump Channeling Newsom? Is Newsom Channeling Trump?

260

Bigger Than Politics: The Future of Public Education

261

Electoral college, the pandemic, Trump's psyche: What a mess!

262

Newsom, Trump, Roberts: Politics and Policy

263

Trump: Wild on the trail

264

Are Latinos being ignored in the debate over police brutality

265

Protests: Anger and hope

266

The protests: Our takes

267

Disruption

268

The Media, Obamagate and Gavin Newsom

269

Woes: Budget and political

270

Newsom, Biden, and the poor

271

Coronavirus: Tracing, Privacy—a Challenge for California

272

Searching For Joe Biden, Voting By Mail

273

Social Media, Politics and the Coronavirus

274

The Media:Covering Politics and the Pandemic

275

Politics And Policy In The Time of Coronavirus

276

Leadership

277

MIXED BAG: Polls, politics and the virus

278

Sexism and the Presidential Race