"If Californians approve this measure in November, they may discover too late that the wealth they hoped to tax has already left the state—with jobs and economic opportunities not far behind."
“We’re standing up not just for ourselves, but for the principle that government must respect property rights.”
Even after the Prop 22 rebuke, California is pushing a system that could standardize schedules and undermine gig work.
Recently several people who won’t invite Andrew Heaton to their birthday parties accused Donald Trump of being a socialist. Is he?
Overly strict or poorly designed rules could slow beneficial uses of AI in healthcare, education, infrastructure, and public safety.
According to California lawmakers, Kamala Harris’s pistol is a potential machinegun.
Another entry into the "algorithms are magic" school of imposing liability on tech companies.
Five years after the city’s fiery 2020 protests, Portland is mostly calm. That hasn’t stopped Trump from reviving old battles, fueled by false memories and made-for-TV outrage.
Thank goodness that judge struck down the legislation he supported.
Masked agents are the unmistakable sign of a police state.
Newsom hired a brass-knuckled social-media team to fight fire with fire, but the result is even more childish nonsense in politics.
Trump's ability to shift acceptable policy debates poses dangers, given that many of the shifts obliterate political norms.
Without Newsom's efforts, major reforms to California's stifling environmental laws would have died on the vine.
Plus: Real rent decreases in New York City, the return of missing middle housing in Virginia, and how everyone's a socialist on housing in New York.
Although the appeals court said the president probably complied with the law he invoked to justify his California deployment, it emphasized that such decisions are subject to judicial review.
The government's lawyer told a 9th Circuit panel the president's deployments are "unreviewable," so he need not even pretend to comply with the statute on which he is relying.
On its face, the law gives the president sweeping authority to deploy the military in response to domestic disorder.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer concluded that the president failed to comply with the statute he cited—and violated the 10th Amendment too.
The California senator was trying to ask about immigration enforcement when federal agents handcuffed and ejected him.
Trump's policy here is yet another example of abusive invocation of emergency powers.
The truth is less dramatic—and more important.
Plus: Trump's big parade, Elon Musk makes amends, Zohran Mamdani gains, and more...
Even if the president was joking in both cases, he already has used his powers to punish people whose views offend him.
In a federal lawsuit, California's governor argues that the president's assertion of control over "the State's militia" is illegal and unconstitutional.
Trump and the right are living out their fantasies of rewriting the awful summer of 2020.
All to shovel more money at wasteful and ineffective programs.
Democrats would have a stronger rebuke to Trumpism if civic service in blue states were the national model rather than a laughingstock.
California once was the state where a visionary might start up a gee-whiz concept in a garage. Now bureaucrats and powerful unions would crush that concept in its infancy.
During Trump's first term, California filed numerous lawsuits seeking to halt deregulation.
From insurance to affordable housing mandates, California's regulatory noose tightens over wildfire rebuilding efforts.
The potential risks from a major wildfire have been well known for years, but there was little appetite to solve those problems before disaster struck.
Anyone who thinks state regulatory agencies will help them doesn't understand how these agencies actually operate.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom must allow prices to rise if he wants homes to be rebuilt as quickly as possible.
Needless regulation on fire insurance, "speculators," and duplexes means fewer dollars are going to rebuild Los Angeles.
Author and podcaster Meghan Daum lost her home in one of the wildfires affecting the Greater L.A. area. She joins the show to discuss what the city is like right now, and how it got this way.
The California governor is using state of emergency powers to make unsolicited offers to buy people's property in fire-affected areas "for an amount less than the fair market value."
The California National Guard should be helping to put out fires, not helping to restrict people's freedom of movement.
Plus: Zuckerberg's metamorphosis, Trump's congestion pricing plans, and more...
This year’s deadly wildfires were predicted and unnecessary.
The destruction of numerous homes exacerbated the city's already severe housing crisis. Curbing exclusionary zoning is crucial to addressing the problem.
Virtue-signaling is no substitute for disaster preparedness.
Newsom is a prototypical modern progressive governor whose pro-democracy tour of Southern states evoked more mocking than fear.
The policies pushed by some MAGA Republicans sound a lot like the ideas of socialist Democrats.
California's governor is considering revamping wasteful state rebate programs for low-emitting vehicles.
To deflect further assaults on democratic norms, Trump's foes will need a skilled, focused, and thoughtful leader. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is not that guy.
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