After getting lucky for his first few years in office, Newsom now faces his first major budgetary crisis. How he responds will show a lot about his leadership skills.
If you don't like San Francisco, that's fine, but don't tell tall tales about it.
The transit systems we're supposed to hop aboard ultimately operate as jobs programs for government workers.
Contra the famous quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, there's nothing particularly civilized about the way our governments spend the money we provide.
At least until all the gasoline is gone.
Teachers unions, police unions, and prison guard unions have inordinate control over public policy, and California is suffering the consequences.
Officials used the crisis to impose policies they already supported but couldn't get through the normal legislative process, like bans on evictions.
Americans shouldn't have to fight to the death to defend their foes' right to speak, but they should at least stop trying to censor, shame, shun and destroy each other.
Police dogs seriously injured 186 people within the last two years—more than batons or tasers did, according to the ACLU.
It doesn't make sense to create laws that restrict activities enjoyed by the general populace to protect a tiny minority that will undoubtedly partake in those activities anyway.
It's a threat to our fundamental rights, but courts refuse to change their approach.
People can never be made incorruptible. We can, however, design governmental systems filled with checks and balances that limit the temptations.
Let's start by doing away with the idea that officers are engaged in a war for our streets rather than involved in a civilian operation that requires community support and trust.
As artificial intelligence advances, how worried should we be about the rise of the machines?
Progressives might not be coming for your existing stove, but they are trying to stop any new installations.
In drought or flood, bad environmental policy is making Californians miserable.
California's economy is growing despite Gov. Gavin Newsom's policies, not because of them.
Unfortunately, the reality is something far more sinister.
Healthy cities are a boon not just for those who live in them, but for our entire society.
The GOP will get what it deserves if, as predicted, Trump burns down the party if he doesn’t get the 2024 nomination.
It's a private company. Its owner can do what he chooses, even if it seems crazy.
Voters gave a cold shoulder to candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump, and Los Angeles County voters gave the heave-ho to Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
Punditry ought to be less important than wonkery.
It's about protecting adults from themselves, which should be none of the government’s business.
California's governor is following Carter's disastrous energy policies at a time when the state's residents are suffering from already high prices.
Having a city council secretly dominated by people with racist views is troubling, but having an entire political system controlled by one special interest group is also scandalous.
Democrats are in favor of reducing the power of government over property owners, while Republicans want bureaucrats to rule.
The best rebuke to the Biden administration's inhumane border policies is for Republican governors to welcome migrants into their states.
The market already is moving in the EV direction, so the state should just let companies do their thing.
The state is prioritizing harm-reduction approaches for drug users. That's great. So why are lawmakers taking a maximalist approach to punishing smokers?
But it's hard to believe conservatives who wanted to lock up their political opponents and opposed police-accountability measures are acting out of principle rather than partisanship.
California should build infrastructure, not shame water users.
If Newsom wants to pick a fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, he should try a different topic.
Conservatives' guiding principle should always be less government control, not more.
Rebutting Democrats' gaseous words on refiners' greed.
The intruders created plenty of mayhem, but it was a farcical coup attempt doomed from the start.
What happened in Uvalde is part of a pattern, not an aberration.
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.
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