Doubling down on stridently conservative messaging in a state where conservatives are a dwindling and fleeing minority doesn't seem like a winning strategy.
It's time for some out-of-box thinking about school reform. What if we let the market do more work and relied on the state for less?
It's the sign of particularly bad legislation when lawmakers must create dozens of carve-outs and workarounds so that the supposed beneficiaries are exempted from its provisions.
Apparently, some conservatives support freedom and property rights, but not when it affects their neighborhoods or intrudes on their personal preferences.
The hubristic idea that America could successfully nation-build in Afghanistan was a bipartisan delusion for nearly two decades.
But they don't really think that the recall process is illegitimate or unconstitutional. They simply don't like that it's being used against one of their own.
The political right's movement toward authoritarianism is exemplified by its refusal to embrace facts that don't conform to their alternative reality.
Market power does not make a private company the equivalent of a government agency.
Ending single-family zoning doesn't ban single-family homes from neighborhoods. It merely allows more freedom for people to build what they want.
They're mostly progressives, but their ideas about limiting government power and respecting individual rights sound almost conservative.
Realtors, contractors, and insurance agents who engage in bad behavior can be stripped of their licenses. Police officers, on the other hand, rarely get fired.
Newsom's subservience to the unions is the best reason to recall him.
California’s problems are indeed daunting, but even troubled San Francisco is still a lovely city.
No, states can't use the 10th Amendment to overturn the First Amendment.
This should be a lesson for anyone who thinks the government should run health care, child care, and just about anything else.
California has morphed from a land of limitless opportunity to a highly regulated land of limits and control. No wonder so many people are leaving.
We should prefer drag queens in libraries over despots in the government.
The public school system is a travesty that does not—and cannot—put students first.
Reforms like the ones recently passed in Maryland and New Mexico offer a better long-term fix than the conviction of one police officer.
But where is the outrage?
Remember when Republicans believed private businesses had a right to exercise free speech?
The latest crisis at America's southern border isn't the result of short-term policy changes but of long-term bureaucratic failures.
Some states have taken action. It's time for the federal government to do the same.
Conservatives would no doubt use government differently than liberals, but libertarians have good reason to doubt that the results will be better.
If MAGA conservatives want libertarians to be part of their tribe, they should halt their attacks on the free market.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order banning non-electric cars from being sold after 2035 merely shifts the emissions from the tailpipe to the power plant.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom hasn't committed any crimes, but he deserves to face a potential recall for his disastrous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It's the result of our overly politicized culture where many people like to shame and destroy their enemies, but it is undermining the benefits of free and open dialogue.
The federal government should prosecute those people who committed acts of vandalism or violence. However, we should be leery about giving the feds additional powers.
Minimum wage jobs aren't supposed to be career choices, but stepping stones on the way to other things. Everyone has to start out somewhere.
California Democrats and their labor union allies are embracing anti-democratic principles to thwart the will of the people.
It can be hard to see what's in front of you, especially when you're struggling not to see it.
Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is force. We could use a little less of that, please.
California is driving on fumes and living off the residual investments and innovations of past generations. Is it any wonder so many Californians are heading to Texas or Arizona?
The political right needs more self-analysis and less whataboutism.
That's a high price to pay because some politicians are angry about a little Facebook moderation.
Some Trump supporters find it easier to believe that every major American institution is potentially corrupt than to think that a president with a history of telling whoppers is being dishonest again.
Trump could have reined in his Twitter attacks, surrounded himself with truth-tellers rather than sycophants, and reached out to other voters. He didn't. That's why he lost.
Unfortunately, I'd guess the party did just well enough in the last election to punt those discussions to another day.
Anyone who was rooting for both "teams" to lose on Election Day should be fairly satisfied right now.
With several ballot initiatives on Election Day, voters decisively rejected California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the state's politically dominant unions, and the legislature.
Libertarians would have a more promising future if they spent less time worrying about national elections and more time working politically at the local level.
The ballot initiative would allow companies such as Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash to classify workers as independent contractors rather than as permanent employees.
The pope conveniently forgets that as a property-rights-based market economy has expanded, grueling poverty has receded worldwide.
Heavy-handed police raids are trampling on the basic rights of all Americans.
California bounds from one crisis to another; most of them being self-imposed.
If Californians are serious about "environmental justice," they need to find ways to pump more water into the state's remarkable infrastructure systems.
Removing single-family zoning will not dismantle the suburbs, but it will dismantle the ability of NIMBYs to use the government to control other people's property.
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