For California’s state and local officials, what would a Trump intervention on homelessness represent? Political deliverance. Our officials haven’t been able to get a handle
We’re already seeing some early obituaries for U.S. Senator Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. But they’re premature. Yes, Kamala’s campaign is on the decline. But she
SB 5 is a political success, but it shouldn’t become law. SB 5 was the legislation that the local government lobby used to fight off
Imagine you’re a California politician, and you need to raise money—for your own campaigns, or to run issue or ballot measures campaigns on subjects that
The Ricardo Lara scandal is a good thing. First, Lara’s acceptance of donations from people in the insurance industry exposes the problem of making insurance
Is there no serious challenge that state government won’t pretend to address with a formula? Sacramento’s preference for formulas over actual policy solutions was the
This spring—as federal prosecutors announced charges against wealthy Californians who paid bribes to get their kids into elite universities—a poor kid from a poor town
Is Santa Cruz the scariest place in California? The coastal county of 275,000 tortured souls is not our most dangerous place, but it embodies the
Good news. The California Democratic Party is embracing real, smart political reform—even though such reforms are not in the party’s political interests. Late last month,