President Donald Trump's executive order empowering local cops will create bad incentives that could prove costly for law-abiding citizens.
The California Environmental Quality Act has created a regulatory nightmare.
Democrats would have a stronger rebuke to Trumpism if civic service in blue states were the national model rather than a laughingstock.
Even if Trump were a font of intelligence and wisdom (and he's not), no one person should be directing any country's economy.
What America can learn from prisons in Norway and Sweden.
Like with the Japanese internment during World War II, the current move to deport alleged alien criminals is driven by hysteria.
California once was the state where a visionary might start up a gee-whiz concept in a garage. Now bureaucrats and powerful unions would crush that concept in its infancy.
We rely on Canadian energy and lumber, and Canadians rely on our products. It's the proverbial win-win.
The president campaigned on a promise to defend the First Amendment, but he's now attacking free speech through a variety of disreputable strategies.
There's little question that Trump is taking the concept of the imperial presidency to its apogee.
The wildfires will be one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history. Hopefully they will also teach policymakers some lessons.
Some of California's architectural wonders were consumed by the flames.
The potential risks from a major wildfire have been well known for years, but there was little appetite to solve those problems before disaster struck.
Anyone who thinks state regulatory agencies will help them doesn't understand how these agencies actually operate.
Laws requiring a "driver" in driverless cars make as much sense as requiring a horse to be yoked to the front of an automobile, just in case.
It shouldn't take a disaster for the state to consider fixing the rules that make it so expensive to building housing there.
And also smartphones and FedEx, all of which were made possible by his push to abolish bad regulations.
Rule by incompetent, power-hungry fools is a bipartisan problem.
Newsom is a prototypical modern progressive governor whose pro-democracy tour of Southern states evoked more mocking than fear.
Vigilante murder of corporate bosses is not going to fix any of the problems with America's health care system.
Unleashing such force on a broad scale will not result in precise, humane, and just results.
By picking a former aide to J.D. Vance as the next head of the Department of Justice's antitrust division, Trump sends a worrying signal.
The policies pushed by some MAGA Republicans sound a lot like the ideas of socialist Democrats.
To deflect further assaults on democratic norms, Trump's foes will need a skilled, focused, and thoughtful leader. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is not that guy.
The key reason America is so prosperous is because it has been the world's beacon of liberty, welcoming to immigrants and open to trade.
California would benefit from building more housing and having more experimentation with how public services are delivered.
Market-based economies create incentives that unleash human creativity and provide incredible abundance.
Urban renewal efforts should recognize that existing businesses and new residents can coexist.
A free market for housing is one that benefits both renters and landlords.
Progressives are trying to fix the errors of the past, but they're ignoring the best solution: More robust property rights.
Weak after-the-fact "collaboration" in no way substantiates or justifies cruel allegations against Haitians in Springfield.
Politicians are always trying to control what they can't understand.
Unions and other special interests seem to get what they want before many urban residents get basic services.
From overspending to the state's overly powerful unions, California keeps sticking to the taxpayer.
Gas prices in California are exceptionally high because of the state's high taxes and anti-oil regulations, not because gas station owners there are greedier.
We can't stop technological advancement, but we should limit government misuse of it.
The state Supreme Court unanimously ruled that ridesharing drivers can be exempted from California's crackdown on independent contracting.
Untangling the roots of Vance's odd political evolution.
Tariffs lead to trade wars, limit competition, and reduce innovation. But both Trump and Biden want more of them.
What happened to caring about the will of the people?
The best way to promote liberty is by reducing the government power, not by harnessing it on behalf of supposedly conservative or populist nostrums.
Thanks to clever inventions and investments from venture capitalists, the average American can head to CVS and purchase kits to test for drug use, sexually transmitted diseases, AIDs, diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol.
The MAGA movement has suddenly discovered the evils of politicized prosecutions, inequities in the justice system, and fear of police abuse.
They're coming for new bags after old bag-ban failed.
Despite being the so-called epicenter of innovation, California certainly doesn't give innovators a lot of room to experiment with new ideas.
In practice, these programs have empowered local governments to use eminent domain to seize property to redistribute to developers.
California has just 72 percent of the assets needed to make payments to retired public workers, many of whom get to collect six-figure annual payments.
Why work extra hard when you won't be able to get an A? Why try to improve when you won't get worse than a C?
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