Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Sunday, Oct. 27. I’m your host, Andrew J. Campa.

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Donald Trump has boasted that he was able to kill Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion. He has said he would not sign a national ban if Congress passed one. But his allies in the anti ...

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My father was posted there as Medical Officer of Health for a period of five years in the late 1930s, when I was between ...

Previously, he was the foreign-affairs columnist for The Wall Street Journal, a member of the Journal’s editorial board and the deputy editor of the editorial page, responsible for international ...