Governments can't plan economies, but can disrupt them.
Fifty percent of the state's water flows to the Pacific Ocean. Another 40 percent is used for agriculture. But it's average residents who are being forced to cut back.
A "disinformation" board sounds like something from a dystopian novel.
Banning less harmful tobacco alternatives is not a way to improve public health.
Both Republicans and Democrats are abusing states' police powers to achieve performative political goals. They should stop.
San Francisco lost a whopping 6.7 percent of its population during the COVID-19 pandemic, the second-largest percentage drop after New York.
Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the nation's first Supreme Court justice to have served as a public defender, and the first since Thurgood Marshall to have experience as a defense attorney. That's good.
Life is returning to "normal" after two years, but that normal includes even fewer limits on executive powers.
It's far too easy to find glowing descriptions of Putin on the nationalist right. Even some libertarians are making excuses for Russia's invasion. They should stop.
Republican idiocy is setting back the cause of freedom.
Liberal Berkeley officials might be coming around to the view held by conservative business leaders, who have long argued that California's Environmental Quality Act needs an overhaul.
When cops don't police their own, the results can be deadly.
Californians might be voting with their feet, but there's nowhere they can run and hide if the federal government embraces the same policies.
San Bernardino County deputies stopped the same armored-car driver twice and took nearly $1.1 million in cash owned by legal marijuana dispensaries.
The governor needs to leave his fancy Sacramento-area compound more often to see what's going on throughout the state.
If you want to abstain from drinking or observe the Sabbath, then abstain from drinking and observe the Sabbath.
Things are getting so bad for Democrats that some are starting to wish for Hillary Clinton to return to politics. Yikes.
Cops in Los Angeles killed a young girl in a department store dressing room by accident while firing at a suspect armed with nothing more than a bike lock.
The lonely crusade against government hubris.
The pandemic has served as a nice reminder of the merits of federalism, where states are the laboratories of democracy that can try regulatory approaches that conform to local attitudes and conditions.
California's leaders can take the recent rise in property crime seriously without repeating the same "tough on crime" mistakes of the past.
We seem to be entering a new era of yellow journalism, in which ad hominem attacks and conspiracy-mongering are more valued than truth and accuracy.
Nearly 90 years after the 21st Amendment ended America's failed experiment with banning alcohol, our leaders are still trying to tell us what to do.
During a speech to a conservative group this month, Hawley depicted a decline in masculinity as one of the nation's foremost problems. Really?
California, which offers some of the most generous pension benefits in the country to its public workers, apparently isn't paying them handsomely enough, the federal Department of Labor says.
Perhaps Newsom doesn't want to do anything because the real solutions will anger his union and environmental allies.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar wants to put HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, the former California attorney general with a reputation for being a partisan hack, in charge of "health disinformation" online.
As exciting as it may sound to grab power and vanquish enemies, the only way to save America is to recommit to its original principles.
The land was taken in 1924 in order to kick a black family out of Manhattan Beach, California.
But at least state lawmakers also passed some useful criminal justice bills and policing reforms.
One of two ballot measures already proposed for 2022 in California takes on some of the most powerful special interests in state politics.
Police are supposed to be part of a community, not an occupying military force armed to the teeth.
President Joe Biden apparently thinks it's wrong for corporations to locate their headquarters in low-tax places like Bermuda, Ireland, and Switzerland. Did he learn nothing from living in Delaware?
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.
