Remembering Dianne Feinstein

Feinstein was a passionate advocate for liberal priorities important to her state — including environmental protection, reproductive rights and gun control — but was also known as a pragmatic lawmaker who reached out to Republicans and sought middle ground.

In this New York cover story from 2022, Rebecca Traister considered Feinstein’s career and its place in the ebb and flow of the women’s movement since the 1970s.

Feinstein died as a new generation of leadership was preparing to take power in California.

Despite the late California senator’s straitlaced sensibilities, she became a pioneering advocate for the gay community.

California Senator Dianne Feinstein will be remembered as a trailblazing woman politician, a master legislator — and an artist.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s death is one of only two of a sitting senator in the last 10 years.

The longest-serving female US senator, who was the first woman to be mayor of San Francisco and blazed a trail for women in US politics, has died aged 90. We look back on her career