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In recent days, we have witnessed a disturbing resurgence of antisemitic attacks around the world, such as those that occurred in Boulder, Colorado, and Washington, DC. From offensive graffiti to acts of lethal violence against defenseless Jews and the desecration of synagogues and cemeteries, these manifestations of hatred are...
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Every last Monday in May, the United States pauses to honor more than one million women and men who have died serving in the Armed Forces. It is a solemn day, filled with flags at half-staff, wreaths, and moments of silence. But it is also a date that many...
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Alejandra Reyes-Velarde CalMatters Cuando María Reyes emigró de México y se estableció en West Long Beach a fines de la década de 1980, pensó que sería el vecindario perfecto para criar a su creciente familia. A medida que sus tres hijos crecieron y comenzaron a ser más activos en...
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Alejandra Reyes-Velarde CalMatters When Maria Reyes migrated from Mexico and settled in West Long Beach in the late 1980s, she thought it would be the perfect neighborhood to raise her growing family. As her three children grew up and started being more active in school, they started developing strange...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters Se suponía que una ley de California transformaría los centros comerciales abandonados de todo el estado en corredores llenos de apartamentos. Otra ley fue diseñada para convertir los estacionamientos subutilizados de las iglesias en fuentes de nuevas viviendas asequibles. Una tercera, según partidarios y opositores por...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters One California law was supposed to flip defunct strip malls across California into apartment-lined corridors. Another was designed to turn under-used church parking lots into fonts of new affordable housing. A third would, according to supporters and opponents alike, “end single-family zoning as we know it.”...
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Yue Stella Yu CalMatters As swaths of Southern California burn, the state’s Republican members of Congress find themselves facing a dilemma. Blaming the fires on California’s liberal policies, President Donald Trump and GOP congressional leaders have proposed attaching assorted conditions to federal disaster aid— a move that, if taken seriously,...
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A medida que el cambio climático calienta el planeta, los incendios forestales se han vuelto tan impredecibles y extremos que se inventaron nuevas palabras: firenado, gigafire, fire siege e incluso fire pandemia. California tiene 78 “días de incendio” anuales más (cuando las condiciones son propicias para que se produzcan...
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As climate change warms the planet, wildfires have become so unpredictable and extreme that new words were invented: firenado, gigafire, fire siege — even fire pandemic. California has 78 more annual “fire days” — when conditions are ripe for fires to spark — than 50 years ago. When is California’s wildfire...