Voters gave a cold shoulder to candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump, and Los Angeles County voters gave the heave-ho to Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
Punditry ought to be less important than wonkery.
It's about protecting adults from themselves, which should be none of the government’s business.
California's governor is following Carter's disastrous energy policies at a time when the state's residents are suffering from already high prices.
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.
Democrats are in favor of reducing the power of government over property owners, while Republicans want bureaucrats to rule.
The best rebuke to the Biden administration's inhumane border policies is for Republican governors to welcome migrants into their states.
The market already is moving in the EV direction, so the state should just let companies do their thing.
The state is prioritizing harm-reduction approaches for drug users. That's great. So why are lawmakers taking a maximalist approach to punishing smokers?
But it's hard to believe conservatives who wanted to lock up their political opponents and opposed police-accountability measures are acting out of principle rather than partisanship.
California should build infrastructure, not shame water users.
If Newsom wants to pick a fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, he should try a different topic.
Conservatives' guiding principle should always be less government control, not more.
Rebutting Democrats' gaseous words on refiners' greed.
The intruders created plenty of mayhem, but it was a farcical coup attempt doomed from the start.
What happened in Uvalde is part of a pattern, not an aberration.
Governments can't plan economies, but can disrupt them.
Fifty percent of the state's water flows to the Pacific Ocean. Another 40 percent is used for agriculture. But it's average residents who are being forced to cut back.
A "disinformation" board sounds like something from a dystopian novel.
Banning less harmful tobacco alternatives is not a way to improve public health.
Both Republicans and Democrats are abusing states' police powers to achieve performative political goals. They should stop.
San Francisco lost a whopping 6.7 percent of its population during the COVID-19 pandemic, the second-largest percentage drop after New York.
Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the nation's first Supreme Court justice to have served as a public defender, and the first since Thurgood Marshall to have experience as a defense attorney. That's good.
Life is returning to "normal" after two years, but that normal includes even fewer limits on executive powers.
It's far too easy to find glowing descriptions of Putin on the nationalist right. Even some libertarians are making excuses for Russia's invasion. They should stop.
Republican idiocy is setting back the cause of freedom.
Liberal Berkeley officials might be coming around to the view held by conservative business leaders, who have long argued that California's Environmental Quality Act needs an overhaul.
When cops don't police their own, the results can be deadly.
Californians might be voting with their feet, but there's nowhere they can run and hide if the federal government embraces the same policies.
San Bernardino County deputies stopped the same armored-car driver twice and took nearly $1.1 million in cash owned by legal marijuana dispensaries.
The governor needs to leave his fancy Sacramento-area compound more often to see what's going on throughout the state.
If you want to abstain from drinking or observe the Sabbath, then abstain from drinking and observe the Sabbath.
Things are getting so bad for Democrats that some are starting to wish for Hillary Clinton to return to politics. Yikes.
Cops in Los Angeles killed a young girl in a department store dressing room by accident while firing at a suspect armed with nothing more than a bike lock.
The lonely crusade against government hubris.
The pandemic has served as a nice reminder of the merits of federalism, where states are the laboratories of democracy that can try regulatory approaches that conform to local attitudes and conditions.
California's leaders can take the recent rise in property crime seriously without repeating the same "tough on crime" mistakes of the past.
We seem to be entering a new era of yellow journalism, in which ad hominem attacks and conspiracy-mongering are more valued than truth and accuracy.
Nearly 90 years after the 21st Amendment ended America's failed experiment with banning alcohol, our leaders are still trying to tell us what to do.
During a speech to a conservative group this month, Hawley depicted a decline in masculinity as one of the nation's foremost problems. Really?
California, which offers some of the most generous pension benefits in the country to its public workers, apparently isn't paying them handsomely enough, the federal Department of Labor says.
Perhaps Newsom doesn't want to do anything because the real solutions will anger his union and environmental allies.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar wants to put HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, the former California attorney general with a reputation for being a partisan hack, in charge of "health disinformation" online.
As exciting as it may sound to grab power and vanquish enemies, the only way to save America is to recommit to its original principles.
The land was taken in 1924 in order to kick a black family out of Manhattan Beach, California.
But at least state lawmakers also passed some useful criminal justice bills and policing reforms.
One of two ballot measures already proposed for 2022 in California takes on some of the most powerful special interests in state politics.