California journalist Joe Mathews rode Morocco’s high-speed train recently and penned a fully justified and blistering comparison between what the North African nation achieved quickly and relatively inexpensively and California’s
This political season, like the last couple, has featured Democratic candidates not only running for office but also running away from things they said from 2019 to 2021. The latest
The timing could not have been better — or worse. The findings from a long-awaited investigation into the origins of a deadly Southern California wildfire were released Tuesday, pinning it
The odds are Republicans will lose the House in the midterms, for five reasons: their current majority is so narrow that losing a literal handful of seats would cost them
All politicians are, to some extent, chameleons who align their personas with the prevailing moods of the public. That can be tricky in an era of extreme political volatility, where
Fear about “affordability” supposedly fueled the new, strident socialism. Yet inflation during Biden’s four years averaged almost 5%. It peaked at over 9%, while prices for some key staples rose
California has always been a place that bets on the future. From semiconductors and personal computing to biotechnology, clean energy, quantum, fusion power and artificial intelligence, our state is the
We are now in Stage III of the Iran War: the familiar monotony of bomb, talk, bomb. It is now the liberal consensus that the war has failed, if not
Automobiles have gradually evolved over the past two decades from mechanical devices into electronic platforms featuring computer screens and numerous other digital capabilities. A few years ago, the California Air
There have been funerals this week in Washington, D.C., and in South Carolina for Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died suddenly from a heart condition on July 11. The fact that
alters When the Legislature passed the Master Plan for Higher Education in 1960, it envisioned a seamless, three-level system that would provide high-quality and low-cost instruction benefiting those seeking careers
In the past week, the war in Iran has seemed like a war again, after a long time in a gray area that was neither war nor peace. Now, with
The 1998 election of Gray Davis as governor was something of a fluke. Davis had climbed the political ladder one rung at a time, from serving as Gov. Jerry Brown’s
Acclaimed British filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s (“The Dark Knight,” “Oppenheimer”) newest film, “The Odyssey,” opens this week in the United States. But controversy has already surrounded Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s 2,700-year-old
In June, after only a few minutes of discussion, both houses of the Legislature overhauled how California manages the nation’s largest public school system and nearly 6 million students. The
One of the colder aspects of life in Washington politics is that the death of an important person often results, before much grieving is done, in a frenzy of speculation
Democrats decided they finally found a line in the sand they wouldn’t cross, and surprisingly enough, it brings us back to the MeToo movement. Graham Platner, the freakishly flawed candidate
Gavin Newsom and his family have had a long and complicated relationship with the oil industry. The latest chapter in the saga, a legal and political dispute over state aid
For two decades, beginning in the late 1970s, the most powerful issue in California politics was crime. Sensational crimes such as the 1993 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas
Zohran Mamdani, New York’s self-described socialist mayor, could not resist using the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration to trash the very country he and his parents voluntarily sought out. As is