David Allen

With warmer weather, Joshua Tree National Park beckons again

April 19, 2023 at 2:18 p.m.

Columnist David Allen makes his third annual trip to the desert and continues to find a lot to like.

President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking the parade route with his wife, Rosalynn, and their daughter, Amy, following his Jan. 20, 1977 inauguration. Carter, 98, is now in hospice care at home. (AP Photo/Suzanne Vlamis, File)

Jimmy Carter had ‘a certain magic,’ says former aide

March 20, 2023 at 2:13 p.m.

James Fallows, President Carter's head speechwriter from 1977-78, reflects on Carter's appeal, drive and post-presidency with columnist David Allen.

Edward Chang, a UC Riverside professor, has been researching the five years Korean independence figure Ahn Chang-Ho spent in Riverside in the early 1900s. (Photo courtesy Stan Lim/UCR)

Researcher says California home to nation’s first Koreatown

May 31, 2021 at 9:08 a.m.

Korean national figure Ahn Chang-Ho spent five years in Riverside, where he established a settlement that was home to one-third of the nation's Korean immigrants, a UC Riverside professor says.

At remade Nixon Library, finding parallels to today isn’t tricky

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

Richard Nixon, the ultimate comeback kid, is trending. Google “Trump Nixon” and you got 26.1 million results Friday, up 1.3 million from the day before.Comparisons between the 45th and 37th...

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