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.
A lack of transparency doesn't make politicians better people.
Plus: Copyright versus the internet, roofer helping rebuild hurricane-damaged Florida houses arrested for lack of Florida license, and more...
Pardoning possession offenders is nice. Taking his boot off the necks of cannabis sellers would be even better.
Plus: The Onion weighs in on qualified immunity case, Supreme Court rejects challenges to bump stock ban, and more...
An emphasis on corruption and enforcement downplays the very real influence of regulation and taxes on California's booming black market.
In the Bay Area and in Los Angeles County, authorities are quickly learning there's little public will to follow their mandates.
New court documents show that the FBI planned for months to seize and forfeit property found inside safe deposit boxes in an L.A. raid under the pretext of doing an inventory.
Educational freedom is good for everybody but unions, bureaucrats, and the education establishment.
Evidence from the past two years suggests they won't make a difference.
Reforms promised after Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 are not being followed by Los Angeles police.
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
He’s been dismissive of fears of gang activity in the LASD and on the attack against critics and investigators. Voters have noticed.
In Los Angeles and San Francisco, voters face candidates who promised criminal justice reforms but whose records have been disappointing.
Now that the pandemic is fading and much of the available rent relief has been spent, L.A.'s eviction moratorium seems like pure regulatory inertia.
San Francisco and Los Angeles insist in suit that likely tens of millions have been illegitimately squeezed from small businesses by ADA plaintiffs without proper legal standing.
Preservationists hope to make the one-time home of Loren Miller a historic landmark. That it would make it nearly impossible to redevelop the $1.4 million two-bedroom home.
Despite apportioning over $1 billion for homeless housing, cost overruns and sluggish pacing threaten to jeopardize the city project.
Meanwhile, Virginia and Washington, D.C., are in a bidding war to decide which taxpayers will have the chance to pay for the Washington Commanders' new stadium. It shouldn't be this way.
But not so fast, Angelenos. No return to normal for you.
Los Angeles Libertarians to start gathering signatures to overturn the four-month-old ordinance.
If California politicians think the mask mandate is stupid, they should lead the charge to get rid of it.
The students' negative COVID tests weren't good enough for school administrators.
School choice is the best alternative for parents who are reasonably frustrated with this insanity.
The lonely crusade against government hubris.
The state’s “reforms” have saddled merchants with oppressively expensive permitting demands.
Businesses that give customers condiments without them first asking for them could receive fines totaling $300.
The fines for failure fall not on the unvaccinated, but the people serving them.
Both Los Angeles and San Francisco struggle with restrictive land use regulations that raise the costs and completion times of housing projects. That same red tape is now hobbling projects aimed at helping alleviate homelessness.
After San Francisco approved a similar ban, teen smoking rates increased.
Los Angeles temporarily eased parking requirements during the pandemic, offering a glimpse of how much a less restrictive zoning code improves urban life.
"It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables," says Cecily Myart-Cruz. "They learned resilience."
Eighteen months into the pandemic, news outlets are still selling sensationalism and burying context
Los Angeles County is largely vaccinated. This is a punitive, authoritarian performance.
Requiring inoculated people to wear masks does not seem like a sensible or effective response, and it could deter vaccination.
Federal Judge David O. Carter says Los Angeles' “inaction" is "so egregious, and the state so nonfunctional" that it's likely "in violation of the Equal Protection Clause."
Cruel NIMBYism hides in call for historic preservation.
Growing criticism of big-city progressive D.A.s George Gascón and Chesa Boudin underscores the importance of distinguishing necessary reform from simply failing to enforce the rule of law.
The boy was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment.
The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
How Axl Rose reflected a country desperate but unwilling to move on from a worn-out postwar consensus on national identity, gender roles, and global hegemony.
Do you care about free minds and free markets? Sign up to get the biggest stories from Reason in your inbox every afternoon.
This modal will close in 10
