California’s fast food law destroyed jobs

About a decade ago, Gov. Jerry Brown offered this defense of his signing a statewide $15 minimum wage into law: “Economically, minimum wages may not make sense. But morally, socially, and politically they make every sense because it binds the community together to make sure parents can take care of their kids.”

As poorly managed and nationally divisive as these two entities have been, it is hard to imagine they were ever needed, even within LBJ’s Great Society.

Progressives love unions. Not only do unions protect workers, they say, unions gave us the weekend and the middle class. I say, capitalism created the middle class. Employers, competing for better workers, gave us the weekend. But whatever you think about capitalism, few people question the claim that unions help workers. But I will. It’s the focus of my new video. A couple years ago, the Teamsters demanded more pay from UPS. Seemed like UPS could easily afford it. The company made almost $13 billion in 2021. UPS used some of that money to hire more union workers. Then they offered […]

Who, exactly, came up with the idea of giving county supervisors a 25% pay hike?

Who needs the U.S. Department of Education to stay just the way it is?

It’s time to expand our collective definition of environmentalism to include building toward a more sustainable future, faster and smarter.

Trump should stop interfering in the affairs of other nations.

Protests come and go, but police must earn the trust of the communities they patrol if they want to fight crime and maintain order over the long term.

Lawmakers should reject SB 512 and instead clarify that all special taxes, however they reach the ballot, still need two-thirds support.

The administration’s math on undocumented people never added up.