2000-07-22 04:00:00 PDT OAKLAND-- Sometime this week, Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown may be a cause celebre in Havana, chomping on a cigar and rapping with Fidel Castro. That's usually what happens ...

“Jerry to me is still the most interesting American politician,” Nathan Gardels, the editor of New Perspectives Quarterly, in Los Angeles, and a longtime friend of Brown’s, told me.“He is ...

California Governor Jerry Brown, nearing the end of an unprecedented fourth term in office, stands in the governor’s mansion in SacramentoBenjamin Rasmussen for TIME It was one of San Francisco ...

Andrew Cuomo turned to municipal politics after resigning from New York’s governorship amid a sexual harassment scandal. Former California Gov. Jerry Brown had a more prosaic reason for mounting a run ...

During Brown’s first stint as governor, he proclaimed an “era of limits,” urging restraint in budgets and embracing the anti-tax Proposition 13 after its passage by voters.

CORRECTION: Mayor Jerry Brown did not hire city manager Robert Bobb; Bobb was already on the job. As I get into Mayor Jerry Brown’s city-owned black Town Car, he scrambles to move a folded red ...

The answer is California under Gov. Jerry Brown — aka Governor Moonbeam — who just happens to be running for the office again, some 30 years later. Last week, Brown, the Democratic nominee ...

Former California Governor Jerry Brown joins CNN’s Christiane Amanpour to discuss the U.S. response to China.

Jerry Brown points out that “we live in unprecedented times,” and no one should doubt his determination to continue playing an unprecedented role in shaping them.

In November 1974, a young Jerry Brown stepped onto a stage in a three-piece pinstriped suit to deliver the most important speech of his career.. He had just won California’s gubernatorial ...

Jerry Brown was sworn in as California Secretary of State, his first statewide office, in 1971 by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren, left. Brown was joined at the ceremony by his parents, ...