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Michael Tubbs losing his Stockton mayoral reelection bid didn’t make anyone’s 2020 top 10 tragedies list. The year was far too brutal for a political wunderkind’s early career hiccup to register as anything more than a pause. Tubbs, 30, became the youngest mayor in the country of a city with more than 100,000 residents (Stockton has around 313,000) when he was elected in 2016, the same night Donald Trump won the presidency. Tubbs remembers it well, “I was thinking, ‘Wow, Stockton got it right.’”  Tubbs instituted some of the most progressive and innovative ...

Updated: February 08, 2021 11:20 IST A deep reading of Kamala Harris and her politics, including the views on gun control and education, sheds light on what she is likely to do in the White House Share Article AAA A deep reading of Kamala Harris and her politics, including the views on gun control and education, sheds light on what she is likely to do in the White House The rise of Kamala Harris to become the U.S.’s first ever woman Vice-President, and the first of mixed Indian and African American heritage, will have a long echo in the annals of that country’s politics, fraught as it i...

Dan Morain’s biography of the US vice-president is well-observed and diligent, but frustratingly lacking in inside detail

By Dan Morain … Dan Morain, for decades a reporter for The Los Angeles Times, recounts stories like these in “Kamala’s Way,” and his insider’s view provides a revealing portrait of the people and events surrounding Harris’s rise to political stardom. Morain paints Bay Area Democratic politics as a swampy world where schmoozing with potential billionaire funders and sitting on the right boards were essential to climbing the rungs. He details Harris’s liaison with the self-described “Ayatollah of the Assembly” and former San Francisco mayor, Willie Brown. Harris dated Brown in...

How Kamala Harris Rose — and Rose Kamala Harris, October 2003.Credit...Mike Kepka/San Francisco Chronicle, via Getty Images Buy Book ▾ By Lisa McGirr KAMALA’S WAY By Dan Morain The daughter of a Jamaica-born father and India-born mother who met in the turbulent world of ’60s Bay Area political activism, Kamala Harris has a social justice lineage that runs deep. In her 2020 Democratic National Convention acceptance speech as Joe Biden’s running mate, she proudly recalled having “a stroller’s eye view of people getting into what the great John Lewis called â�...