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LA mayoral race heads to November runoff as Karen Bass faces Mamdani-style socialist
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Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman advanced Monday evening to a runoff election against Mayor Karen Bass in a heated race that has garnered national attention.
The outcome sets up a general election that pits Bass, an incumbent fending off criticism about her record, against Raman’s progressive message of government-led affordability measures. The result means Spencer Pratt, a Republican and former «The Hills» reality TV star, is out of the race, according to The Associated Press.
Voters will decide the overall winner on Nov. 3.
«I’m incredibly honored that voters have given us the opportunity to advance to the general election for Mayor of Los Angeles,» Raman said in a statement. «… If you’re as frustrated by the broken status quo as I am, I hope you’ll join our movement to build a city that works for everyone.»
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A Los Angeles city councilwoman and progressive candidate for mayor Nithya Raman, left, pictured alongside incumbent mayor Karen Bass, right (Ronaldo Bolaños / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images; Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
In a post on X, Bass took aim at both Pratt and what she characterized as the «MAGA agenda,» while also criticizing Raman.
«We won on Tuesday — and LA rejected Spencer Pratt and the MAGA agenda. Next, we’ll win in November!» Bass wrote. «Because this is an election with a choice between whether we keep making change together or Nithya Raman, who allows encampments near schools and fights against hiring more cops, yet is MIA on saving Hollywood jobs and fighting back when ICE invades LA.»
Raman, a member of the Los Angeles City Council and Democratic Socialists of America, has served as chair of the Housing and Homelessness Committee since 2023. She has also been dubbed a Mamdani-style socialist, referring to far-left New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
In her view, there is more the city could be doing to address not just its homelessness problem, but also increasing housing supply, maintaining public safety, furthering climate goals and pushing back against federal immigration enforcement efforts.
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Raman has also been dubbed a Mamdani-style socialist, referring to far-left New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images)
«We can bring LA back to what it really is: one of the most creative, beautiful and most hopeful places in the world. But only if we come together to fight for it,» Raman said in a campaign video.
During the race, Raman pitched herself as a hopeful alternative to Bass’ leadership and what she called a fear-fueled campaign from Spencer Pratt, a rightward-leaning independent who gained traction in the closing weeks of the campaign.
«We have a mayor who has failed to lead this city and, on the other hand, a right-wing extremist, powered by MAGA, who’s channeling people’s frustrations about this city into fear and anger and hatred,» Raman said.
Bass, who first came into office in 2022, argues she has a track record that is taking the city in the right direction.
Despite fending off criticisms about the Palisade fires, a stubbornly visible homelessness population and budget deficits, Bass argued she’s taken steps to address all of those areas in her three years in the role.
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said «it depends» when asked whether noncitizens should be allowed to vote in local elections. (Getty Images)
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«Los Angeles is at a turning point. After decades of rising homelessness, under-built housing and a shrinking police force, it’s Mayor Karen Bass who finally stepped up to change how City Hall works,» Bass’s website reads.
«Homelessness is down, more housing is being built and LAPD is hiring new officers.»
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom endorsed Bass on May 28.
Bass originally won election in 2022 in a 54.8% to 45.2% victory over independent challenger Rick J. Caruso.
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La lectura potencia el cerebro más que el ejercicio, el sueño o la cafeína, afirma una nueva investigación
Un nuevo estudio sobre lectura y actividad cognitiva sostiene que la alfabetización no se limita a descifrar textos, sino que reconfigura funciones mentales como la memoria, la atención, el procesamiento del lenguaje, el razonamiento e incluso el reconocimiento de rostros, según plantea Falk Huettig, investigador principal del Instituto Max Planck de Psicolingüística.
De acuerdo con la investigación, la lectura actúa como uno de los potenciadores cognitivos más poderosos y con efectos cada vez mejor documentados. La alfabetización transforma la manera en que las personas procesan el lenguaje, organizan la atención, usan la memoria, razonan e incluso reconocen rostros.
Huettig sostiene que la lectura recibe menos atención que otros factores asociados al rendimiento mental, como el sueño, el ejercicio, la nutrición, el manejo del estrés, la cafeína o la neuroestimulación.
El estudio reúne trabajos de psicología, lingüística, neurociencia y educación para ordenar esa investigación en una sola explicación. Su tesis central es que leer y escribir no son herramientas neutrales, sino prácticas que transforman de forma profunda la mente.
Uno de los hallazgos más llamativos del estudio aborda el reconocimiento de rostros. Una idea extendida en neurociencia planteaba que, como la lectura es una adquisición cultural reciente, su aprendizaje podría ocupar parte de redes visuales más antiguas, incluidas las dedicadas a identificar caras.
Huettig rebate esa hipótesis. Sostiene que aprender a leer puede afinar esas redes, en vez de restarles capacidad, al aumentar la sensibilidad ante rostros y otras categorías de objetos visuales.
Esa propuesta se apoyó en estudios con adultos alfabetizados y analfabetos en India. Según el investigador, esas pruebas confirmaron que las personas alfabetizadas reconocían mejor los rostros que las analfabetas.
El estudio también rechaza la idea de que la alfabetización sea una meta que se alcanza de una vez y para siempre. Huettig afirma que la competencia lectora sigue desarrollándose después de que una persona aprende a leer con fluidez.
A su juicio, la práctica continuada automatiza y refina esos subprocesos y su coordinación. Esa evolución, añade, hace que las personas alfabetizadas miren el mundo con un filtro distinto al de quienes no leen o lo hacen menos.
Huettig añade que solo una minoría alcanza los niveles más altos de lectura crítica en evaluaciones internacionales como las pruebas PISA. También subraya que el tipo de textos importa, porque llegar a esa lectura avanzada exige contacto regular con materiales complejos y habilidades sólidas de pensamiento crítico y razonamiento.
En el debate sobre formatos, Huettig describe un panorama menos tajante. Señala que metaanálisis previos detectaron una comprensión lectora inferior en pantallas, aunque atribuye parte de esa diferencia a la autorregulación del lector.
Su explicación es que muchas personas consideran el papel un soporte más apropiado para la lectura seria y, por eso, ajustan su conducta y su esfuerzo mental de otra manera. Aun así, advierte que la investigación disponible no respalda la conclusión simplificada de que el papel siempre ofrece mejores resultados que lo digital.
Sobre los audiolibros, el investigador reconoce beneficios parciales. Explica que pueden exponer a vocabulario poco frecuente, construcciones gramaticales complejas y estructuras narrativas elaboradas, pero remarca que el conjunto completo de ventajas de la lectura solo se obtiene con el texto escrito.
De cara a padres y educadores, Huettig cuestiona la tendencia a simplificar en exceso los textos para adaptarlos a un vocabulario más reducido o a una menor destreza gramatical entre los jóvenes. También alerta sobre una dependencia excesiva de puntuaciones de legibilidad generadas por personas o por inteligencia artificial, así como del autocorrector para buscar palabras o gramática “mejores”.
Su propuesta apunta en sentido contrario: dar prioridad a la buena escritura, a una prosa memorable y a un lenguaje complejo y poco común para sostener y fortalecer la alfabetización. El trasfondo, según plantea, es que está en juego mucho más que una destreza escolar.
El estudio cierra con una advertencia sobre el lugar de la escritura en los próximos años, en un contexto marcado por teléfonos inteligentes, aprendizaje en línea e inteligencia artificial generativa. Huettig compara el posible destino del texto escrito con medios que pasaron de uso general a interés de nicho.
Si la alfabetización sigue cayendo a escala global, el investigador prevé que también podrían deteriorarse las habilidades que hoy miden las pruebas de inteligencia. Aunque futuras tecnologías lleguen a aliviar parte de esa pérdida, considera poco probable que compensen por sí solas ese retroceso.
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Two of the Supreme Court’s conservative justices criticized the majority’s decision not to take up attorney Alan Dershowitz’s defamation case against CNN, saying the high court missed an opportunity to revisit a controversial 1960s defamation precedent.
The dissent from the court’s conservative wing effectively called on the justices to revisit longstanding libel precedent, echoing President Donald Trump’s 2016 calls to loosen U.S. libel laws.
Dershowitz, who has represented famous figures like Trump, O.J. Simpson and Leona Helmsley, claimed CNN deceptively edited a snippet of his defense during Trump’s first impeachment trial about «quid pro quo[s]» to make it sound like he said the opposite of his fuller statements and used that clip to damage his reputation.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch — appointees of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Trump, respectively — criticized their colleagues for relying on the «actual malice» standard in evaluating whether CNN defamed Dershowitz, arguing the standard is not rooted in the Constitution and instead was created in the Supreme Court’s landmark 1964 decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan.
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«Predictably, Dershowitz did not prevail under that exacting standard, which this Court created in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. Dershowitz now asks this Court to overrule Sullivan and related precedents,» the conservatives wrote.
Dershowitz also reacted to the dissent in remarks to Fox News Digital, calling the majority’s standard «impossible» to overcome.
«All the judges agreed that CNN lied about me,» he said Monday.
«But the majority ruled, over dissents, that I had to prove actual malice by clear and convincing evidence— an impossible standard that I believe will be overruled in years to come.»
The Sullivan case arose after a Montgomery, Alabama, commissioner sued the Times for libel over a full-page advertisement criticizing how the city treated civil rights protesters.
An Alabama jury awarded damages to L.B. Sullivan even though he was not mentioned by name in the ad. The Supreme Court later reversed the ruling, holding that a public official cannot prevail in a defamation case unless he proves the statement was made with «actual malice» — knowing it was false or acting with reckless disregard for the truth.
«The actual-malice standard for public figures bears no relation to the text, history, or structure of the Constitution,» Thomas and Gorsuch wrote Monday in Dershowitz’ case.
«Instead, the founding generation believed that, if anything, public figures had stronger claims for damages when they were defamed.»
As one historical example, Thomas and Gorsuch pointed to the Sedition Act of 1798, which imposed a far lower threshold for defamatory statements about public officials.
Then-Rep. Matthew Lyon, D-Vt., was prosecuted under the law for characterizing President John Adams as someone with «unbounded thirst for ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation and selfish avarice» during American tensions with France.
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President Thomas Jefferson allowed that law to expire in 1801 and pardoned many caught in its net.
More recently, Trump has called for loosening U.S. libel laws, echoing concerns similar to those expressed by Thomas and Gorsuch about the court’s defamation jurisprudence.
While running for president in 2016, Trump pledged to «open up our libel laws» if elected to pursue the ideological conglomerate he often labels «fake news.»
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Journalists who «write purposefully negative and horrible and false articles — we can sue them and win lots of money,» Trump said.
He has often singled out defendant CNN more than most – famously warring regularly with its then-White House correspondent, podcaster Jim Acosta.
During one 2017 incident, Acosta repeatedly interrupted Trump during a news conference, leading the president to demand he not «be rude.».» Trump informed Acosta that he would not be taking a question from him because «you are fake news.»
Supreme Court Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas wait to leave the stage after the inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/AFP via Getty Images)
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«We’re going to open up libel laws, and we’re going to have people sue you like you’ve never got sued before,» Trump said at the 2016 event, going on to further name-drop the Times and Washington Post.
The ruling, along with Trump’s own lawsuit against the Ted Turner-founded network over its use of the term «Big Lie» to describe his claims about the 2020 election, leaves open the possibility that the court could revisit Sullivan, though such a shift appears unlikely in the near term.
Fox News Digital reached out to CNN for comment on the dissent.
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