##  In the News

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### [Trump World. From Assassination Abroad to Chaos at Home](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33277:trump-world-from-assassination-abroad-to-chaos-at-home&catid=395)

August 31 2026

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### [They Said It Made No Sense. Then They Voted Yes.](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33278:they-said-it-made-no-sense-then-they-voted-yes&catid=327)

August 31 2026

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### [Newsom’s Next Immigration Gamble: Defy Federal Law And Dare Washington To Fight Back](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33283:newsoms-next-immigration-gamble-defy-federal-law-and-dare-washington-to-fight-back&catid=375)

August 31 2026

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### [Zuckerberg May Finally Pay a Price for Preying on Our Children](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33261:zuckerberg-may-finally-pay-a-price-for-preying-on-our-children&catid=375)

August 27 2026

#  SAY WHAT?

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  [### Profiteering off the Pandemic

Written by Robert Reich on August 17 2020.

 ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20254:profiteering-off-the-pandemic&catid=376)

 Written by Jill Richardson on August 10 2020. Posted in [SAY WHAT?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=376).

## [Trump’s Authoritarianism is Ill-Suited to a Pandemic](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20218:trump-s-authoritarianism-is-ill-suited-to-a-pandemic&catid=376)

When he can’t pretend everything is fine, he blames the Chinese. But China is not responsible for Trump’s botched response to the pandemic. Now the…

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### [The Virus That’s Really Killing Americans? Greed](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20182:the-virus-that-s-really-killing-americans-greed&catid=376)

Written by Jim Hightower on August 03 2020.

### [Garcetti: ‘Not a Lot of Regrets’ on His Handling of COVID 19 Crisis](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20165:garcetti-not-a-lot-of-regrets-on-his-handling-of-covid-19-crisis&catid=376)

Written by NBC Nightly News on July 30 2020.

### ['Incapable Leadership': Trump Response to Coronavirus Eroding US Credibility Worldwide](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20142:incapable-leadership-trump-response-to-coronavirus-eroding-us-credibility-worldwide&catid=376)

Written by Eoin Higgins on July 27 2020.

### [America’s Coronapocalypse](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20106:america-s-coronapocalypse&catid=376)

Written by Umair Haque on July 20 2020.

### [GOP Governor Slams Trump's 'Hopeless' Covid-19 Response](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20088:gop-governor-slams-trump-s-hopeless-covid-19-response&catid=376)

Written by Chandelis Duster on July 16 2020.

### [How Many are Going to Die Because Trump Surrendered to Coronavirus?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20069:how-many-are-going-to-die-because-trump-surrendered-to-coronavirus&catid=376)

Written by Umair Haque on July 13 2020.

### [Trump and the GOP's Handling of Covid-19 Is Sheer Lunacy](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20034:trump-and-the-gop-s-handling-of-covid-19-is-sheer-lunacy&catid=376)

Written by Robert Reich on July 06 2020.

### [Dr Anthony Fauci Issues a Dire Coronavirus Plea](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20017:dr-anthony-fauci-issues-a-dire-coronavirus-plea&catid=376)

Written by Amy Davidson Sorkin on July 02 2020.

### [America Has More New Coronavirus Cases than Europe, China, and India — Combined](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19997:america-has-more-new-coronavirus-cases-than-europe-china-and-india-combined&catid=376)

Written by Umair Haque on June 29 2020.

### [How Will the COVID-19 Pandemic End?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19973:how-will-the-covid-19-pandemic-end&catid=376)

Written by Melissa Healy on June 25 2020.

### [LA County: Alarmed by Spiking Coronavirus Numbers, Officials aren’t Worried](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19952:la-county-alarmed-by-spiking-coronavirus-numbers-officials-aren-t-worried&catid=376)

Written by Alex Wigglesworth on June 22 2020.

### [Record High of Nearly 80 Million People Forcibly Displaced Worldwide Amid Pandemic](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19938:record-high-of-nearly-80-million-people-forcibly-displaced-worldwide-amid-pandemic&catid=376)

Written by Jessica Corbett on June 18 2020.

### [A Hundred Thousand Americans Didn’t Need to Die](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19918:a-hundred-thousand-americans-didn-t-need-to-die&catid=376)

Written by Umair Haque on June 15 2020.

### [To Defeat Coronavirus, We Need to Expand Medicare](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19883:to-defeat-coronavirus-we-need-to-expand-medicare&catid=376)

Written by Diane Archer & Wendell Potter on June 08 2020.

### [The Coming of a Social-Distancing Version of War](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19848:the-coming-of-a-social-distancing-version-of-war&catid=376)

Written by Danny Sjursen on June 01 2020.

### [The Bridge to the Post-pandemic World Is Collapsing](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19831:the-bridge-to-the-post-pandemic-world-is-collapsing&catid=376)

Written by Annie Lowrey on May 28 2020.

### [Got Medicare? Get a No-Cost Test for COVID-19](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19799:got-medicare-get-a-no-cost-test-for-covid-19&catid=376)

Written by Seema Verma on May 21 2020.

### [So Long to American Exceptionalism](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19777:so-long-to-american-exceptionalism&catid=376)

Written by Karen J. Greenberg on May 18 2020.

### [LA Allegedly Extending ‘Stay at Home’ Order For 3 Months … Not Being Transparent With Residents](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19759:la-allegedly-extending-stay-at-home-order-for-3-months-not-being-transparent-with-residents&catid=376)

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