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Three Questions for the Year Ahead

Michael J. Koplow January 2, 2020

Waxman faces Bloomfield in redrawn 33rd

Jonah Lowenfeld September 12, 2012

Sitting in his recently rented campaign office on West Third Street in Los Angeles one afternoon in late August, Rep. Henry Waxman listed — one by one, from memory — some of the coastal and South Bay neighborhoods and cities that are included in the newly redrawn 33rd Congressional District where he’s running for reelection in November.

Altschuler concedes to Bishop in suburban N.Y. race

Jewish Journal December 8, 2010

Randy Altschuler conceded the congressional election in a suburban New York district to incumbent Rep. Tim Bishop. Altschuler, a Republican, is trailing the Democrat Bishop by 263 votes, unofficial counts show in the eastern Long Island district. In his concession Wednesday, Altschuler said he concluded that a hand recount of 200,000 ballots was unlikely to change the result and would be overly burdensome on district taxpayers. Altschuler would have joined Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the incoming majority leader, as the second Republican Jewish lawmaker in Congress.

Bush’s Middle East legacy

Steve Greenberg January 18, 2008

Political cartoon.

Iran, Israel and the 2008 election

Raphael J. Sonenshein September 14, 2007

The Republican Party has a two-sided albatross around its neck, an unpopular president who is trying desperately to keep an unpopular war going past Election Day so that its disastrous ending can be on the next president\’s watch.

Jews still have big role in changing L.A. political scene

Raphael J. Sonenshein March 16, 2007

Today, Jews remain a key constituency in Los Angeles politics and generate plenty of strong candidates. The dramatic rise of Latinos in local politics, though, has carved out another niche for minority candidates that once largely belonged to African Americans.