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'The news media have fallen into a pattern of reporting politics as they would a sports contest — describing states and positions by the "team colors" of red and blue,' says a reader. ....
For every healthy 80-year-old like Mick Jagger, there are more suffering from age-related decline. The presidency, Congress and Supreme Court need upper age limits. ....
Print Sen. Dianne Feinstein has been a fixture of California politics since she became mayor of San Francisco on the day Harvey Milk and George Moscone were assassinated in 1978. And now, her grip on power in the Senate has never been more tenuous. This week, a report in the New Yorker portraying the 87-year-old Democrat as afflicted by fatigue and frequent memory lapses prompted murmurs including by an L.A. Times columnist that the most senior woman in the U.S. Senate should step down. Adding insult to injury, a campus bearing her name was flagged as one of 44 San Francisco public schools that may be rechristened. ....