As governments and law enforcement agencies rush to incorporate facial recognition tech, California lawmakers have a chance to slam on the brakes.
The show wasn't about a nuclear disaster per se, but about how a government—and individuals—reacted in the face of disaster.
Republicans, who have gleefully warned the public about Democratic flirtations with socialism, shouldn't be quick to gloat given the emergence of an anti-freedom movement on the Right.
After state lawmakers boosted the gas tax with a promise to improve California streets, some cities are upsetting drivers by spending millions on so-called 'road diet' projects that reduce the number of lanes for motor vehicles.
Actions speak louder than words. Trump 's labeling of the media as "the enemy of the people" is bad, but he's not breaking into reporters' homes to find leakers. That's what the San Francisco Police Department did.
This is the nature of government. It can't stop the flow of illicit substances in a sealed and militarized building that's under its total control.
Americans are paying more than ever for car loans. Why shouldn't the government bail those out too? For the same reason eliminating student loans would be a bad idea.
Everywhere rent control is tried, the same things happen. Landlords exit the market. Developers stop building apartments. Supply drops significantly.
All the welfare programs California Democrats can dream up won't do as much as some commonsense reforms to let people who want to work, work.
A flaw in a proposal that would let developers build more high-density apartments and condos is that it doesn't go nearly far enough
At least now we're arguing over the right thing: the need to hike housing supply.
But that might be news to some Californians, and even more of the state's elected and appointed officials.
It's hard to believe that smart people such as Ta-Nehisi Coates and David Brooks don't understand the tinderbox that their idea would ignite.
One doesn't need a predictive-policing program to realize that police officers who have been convicted of serious crimes ought not to be trusted with a badge.
A system that lets us make our own decisions about our own lives is more moral than one that transfers them to powerful strangers.
Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin used the motto, "Land to the peasants, peace to the nations, bread to the starving." Sounds good, right?
To understand socialism, one needn't fixate on its most-horrifying elements-gulags and executions. Think about the simple stuff. Like aspirin.
Unlike lawmakers, who are usually are fairly forthright about their goals and intent, the justices have left Californians befuddled with several recent rulings.
Reformers always have a new scheme to take "the money out of politics," but it usually just makes the government larger and campaign spending increase.
Government officials want as much revenue as possible so it can spend it with wild abandon. There will never be enough to satisfy them.
Specifics remain sparse, but universal healthcare will surely increase demand for medical services, and California's already low on nurses.
Government planners do not understand markets, so they promote overly pricey projects that fail to meet our real-world transportation needs.
A well-intentioned plan is one of the worst ideas in the governor's new budget given the real-world effect it will have on California students.
California's fiscal foundation is built on rock, says Gov. Gavin Newsom, but it's really more like sand.
All this anger about immigration (and a lack of sympathy for the poor people coming here) is not only cruel, but politically foolish.
Making sense of the complicated and contradictory legacy of California Gov. Jerry Brown.
New Luddites have used the courts and the legislative process to throw that figurative wrench in the machine.
Winning candidates need to offer practical approaches that are appropriate for the offices they are seeking. Jeff Hewitt did exactly that.
Thanks to an anti-Trump wave that crashed across California in the midterm elections, Democrats will now have legislative supermajorities.
Conservatives and moderates don't agree on much, but they do agree on this: The state GOP is dead in the water and needs a new strategy to revive itself.
Censorship is when government limits speech, and tech firms are not monopolies. They are successful private businesses; others are free to compete with them.
By careening towards populism, the GOP handed over to the Democrats modern, growing, diverse and prosperous suburbs such as Orange County.
In California, new lawsuits aim to make unions respect the Supreme Court's authority.
One union official told The Sacramento Bee that "education should not be a competitive endeavor." Because competition never improved anything, right?
The winner gets to decide how much Californians will pay for property and casualty insurance.
Voters shouldn't be asked to make decisions about how much space a chicken needs in its cage.
The new laws bring us closer to the state of affairs that existed before 2006, when a state Supreme Court decision slammed the door on police accountability.
Brown wasn't exactly a secret libertarian, but libertarians might end up missing him.
Gov. Jerry Brown rolls back stupid restrictions on homemade foods, sidewalk vending, and craft distilleries.
It was the end of the world...until it wasn't.
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. That goes double in California.
Lawsuit says California pension agency withholds crucial data.
The Republican lawmaker is accused of misusing campaign dollars for for personal expenses including a trip to Italy, massive bar tabs and video games.
Bail reform is a good idea, but California lawmakers turned it into one hot mess.
The Republican Party should take a more forceful and public stand on behalf of freedom and opportunity for all.
California citizens must now meet and confer with union bosses before qualifying any compensation-related initiatives for the ballot.
Currently, sheriffs-who have an official, vested interest in officer-involved shootings-make the final cause-of-death determinations.
Police union's law firm will pay $600K to a former mayor of Costa Mesa who says police used a "playbook" of nasty tactics to target him.
