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.
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.
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