Rent freezes will discourage construction, government-run grocery stores are a joke, and free buses will become roving homeless shelters.
Overly strict or poorly designed rules could slow beneficial uses of AI in healthcare, education, infrastructure, and public safety.
The federal cuts amount to little more than a rounding error in most state or big city budgets.
Shrugging off the radicalization of right-wing political culture is a mistake.
Don't believe the GOP's 'principled' opposition to Prop. 50
Federal troops are also ill-suited to handle local policing issues.
Masked agents are the unmistakable sign of a police state.
Trump struggles to articulate any foreign policy view with much coherence, and has a fragile ego that makes world conflicts all about him.
While mail-in voting provides obvious logistical challenges, every serious analysis of mail-in voting results has found it to be secure.
Newsom hired a brass-knuckled social-media team to fight fire with fire, but the result is even more childish nonsense in politics.
Perónism: the one import that Trump likes.
If a Democratic president tried to so directly politicize an independent agency, Republicans would be screaming about the coming tyranny.
Thin-skinned MAGA can dish it out, but can't take mockery.
It shouldn't matter whether NPR leans right or left. Cutting its federal funding was the right move.
Trump's ability to shift acceptable policy debates poses dangers, given that many of the shifts obliterate political norms.
You have rights to your property, not to control others.
Without Newsom's efforts, major reforms to California's stifling environmental laws would have died on the vine.
That's inevitable. It should also be deeply troubling to anyone who cares about constitutional government.
Militarized riot approach sets the nation on a dangerous course.
It's a return to the Reagan era, but not in the way that should make conservatives happy.
Speech codes intended to battle misinformation are instead empowering the government to be the arbiter of truth.
The more important the product—and food certainly ranks high on any list—the better it is to allow markets to work.
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.
