California Gov. Gavin Newsom has embarked on what some are calling a “Make America California Tour.” As the governor recently claimed, large majorities of American voters, including 63 percent of Republicans, support California’s new law to fight “gas price gouging.”…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A state can serve as a “laboratory” of democracy to “try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country,” Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in his dissent in an arcane 1932…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a normal state, policymakers who are facing a crisis (let alone myriad crises) would at least have the wisdom not to purposefully try to make things worse. Here in California, not so much. Gov. Gavin Newsom…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Progressive politicians and economists are painting a dark picture about the future of work, as they depict a coming dystopia of American wage earners who have no job security or benefits, little savings, no connections to a…
Sacramento California may be the “edge of the world and all of Western civilization,” as the Los Angeles-based rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers sang in their 22-year-old hit, “Californication,” but their most provocative lyrics come later in the…
Sacramento California’s unions aren’t accustomed to losing, so it was no surprise that the Service Employees International Union filed a lawsuit this month challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 22, which voters approved by overwhelming margins. That measure allows app-based transportation and ride-sharing…
Last week marked a critical point for the American gig worker. For several years now, big labor and Democrat politicians have tried to turn gig workers, like Uber and Lyft drivers, from independent contractors into employees. This change would allow…
California’s progressive officials love to think of our state as a petri dish for their ideas — virtually all of them bad — that lawmakers in other states ought to import. Yet on Tuesday, the same voters who selected Joe…
If we’re looking for an example of heartlessness from the political class, there are few better examples than California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez’s Twitter response to moderate-income freelance workers who lost their jobs because of her law restricting companies from using…