
Debra J. Saunders
On Tuesday, Aug. 30, President Obama commuted the sentences of 111 federal drug offenders. In his first term, Obama endured…
Some people do not learn from their mistakes. Anthony Weiner is one. The husband of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin…
Opponents of California’s death penalty have been highly successful at thwarting executions since the state resumed executions in 1992 after…
Patricia Hearst is the first person in American history to receive a commutation from one president and a pardon from…
As mayor of Oakland in the 2000s, Jerry Brown supported redevelopment. Then he returned to the governor’s office in 2011…
In 2009, the fact-checking organization PolitiFact, run by the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times), won a Pulitzer…
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi told the San Francisco Chronicle’s Karen de Sa it was “positively medieval” for District…
For the first time since 1988, both major parties’ nominees — Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump — say…
The first of three presidential debates won’t happen until Sept. 26. Today, nearly six weeks beforehand, I safely can make…
Monday’s front-page New York Times story “Scholarship or Business? Think Tanks Blur the Line” reports that while think tanks in…