Susan Shelley: Did anyone in the Biden administration ever pass an economics class? Maybe not. • Newsom finally aligns with Legislature’s gloomier budget outlook, blaming ‘massive volatility’
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Saturday, May 11, 2024

Douglas Schoen and Saul Mangel: Biden’s misguided abandonment of Israel

Unfortunately, this will not help Israelis nor Palestinians, and in all likelihood, will be remembered as one of the most ill-conceived political and strategic decisions of Biden’s presidency.

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Susan Shelley: Did anyone in the Biden administration ever pass an economics class? Maybe not.

Watching President Joe Biden sit for an interview always reminds me of “University Days,” a chapter in the great American humorist James Thurber’s 1933 autobiography, “My Life and Hard Times.” Thurber tells the story of a fellow student in his economics class who was one of Ohio State University’s outstanding football players, a tackle named […]

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Newsom finally aligns with Legislature’s gloomier budget outlook, blaming ‘massive volatility’

Whether the Legislature can resist pressure from advocates for the programs Newsom would cut remains to be seen.

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Larry Wilson: The fight to keep a free press free

When the police arrest reporters just doing their job

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May Revise sets up California for painful spending choices and tax increases

Budgets have consequences

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What’s wrong with protesting about something you’re mistaken about?

Even if we suppose that they’re wrong, good intentions count don’t they?

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Democrats forgo idealism, as Biden risks losing the youth vote

If Biden fails to listen to and rally a broad swath of young voters, Trump needs only to match Nixon’s modest showing to retake the White House this fall.

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Rescheduling is good news for California’s marijuana industry, but the state still needs to reduce regulations and taxes

The DEA’s rescheduling of marijuana would be a welcome step in helping the state’s legal cannabis market compete and succeed.

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The overlooked crisis of escalating commercial insurance rates in California

The legislature should make tackling crime — and by extension, out-of-control insurance rates — a priority.

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Father Gregory Boyle’s well-earned Medal of Freedom

Anyone who wanders into Homegirl Cafe just off North Alameda Street in Downtown Los Angeles in search of an espresso may think at first they’re just in another hipster joint, nicely appointed, cutting edge.

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