Norms matter if we want to remain free and democratic

The obliteration of political norms has a habit of spreading.

All of which makes a Harris entry into this key race very much a question mark for the moment.

This version of Gavin Newsom is here to stay – at least until polling says it’s time to pivot.

Newsom and legislators implicitly assume that at some point revenues will increase enough to cover their spending and pay off their debts — just as a debt-ridden family buys lottery tickets in hopes of avoiding bankruptcy.

The tomato tariff is a test of leadership.

We must rein in the lawlessness of ICE. That starts by demanding accountability for criminal actions by ICE agents.

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.”

The “Big Beautiful Bill” did a lot of things, not all of them good.

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 […]