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Prof. Sara Sadhwani tells the Los Angeles Times: “A DSA endorsement will be shorthand for how to define Nithya Raman as a candidate both for the establishment in Los Angeles and for Republicans nationally.” 

Venezuela has possibly the largest oil reserves in the world—though it hasn’t produced much in recent years. The Trump administration hopes to change that.

“For those who have seen the devastating videos in Tibet and Nepal, that’s what we’re talking about,” Prof. Char Miller told Spectrum News 1. “The high volume of water rushing into a narrow valley simply explodes out of the sides.”

A proposed document asks U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to pressure Belgrade to ensure free and fair elections, step up the fight against corruption, ensure the rule of law, and change its relationship with Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran.

In internet slang, “aura” is an imaginary representation of charisma, presence, confidence, or the ability to appear cool. Prof. Ellie Anderson links “aura farming” to Aristotle’s virtue ethics: the idea that character is built through our actions.

Opposition leader-in-exile Maria Corina Machado has hired veteran Republican lobbyists in Washington, D.C., in what experts say is an effort to gain the support of the Trump administration as she continues to seek the Venezuelan presidency.

Prof. Sara Sadhwani moderated a discussion between four Valley City Council members on the city’s business climate, budget, homelessness and preparations for the 2028 Olympics.

Federal employees, especially in the West, have long faced threats from citizens angry at their government—and at times attuned to conspiracy theories and heated political rhetoric—who choose to act out against its individual representatives.

In The New Yorker, Prof. Amanda Hollis-Brusky says she thinks that the unitary-executive theory has roots in Cold War anxieties—“the idea that we need to empower a strong Presidency to protect free markets and counter godless Communism.”

Mayor Karen Bass’ summer has been beset by a string of negative news. Prof. Sara Sadhwani discusses the political fallout from the blaze that ignited at the Lineage cold-storage food warehouse in Boyle Heights.