The past weekend saw one of America’s best-known and, for a long time, best-loved cities erupt in violent riots. Fires raged across Los Angeles as rioters waving foreign flags hurled everything from rocks and concrete slabs to fireworks and Molotov…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As I’ve written for years here at The American Spectator, California has incinerated its insurance market by imposing price controls on insurers. Instead of risking their capital reserves by selling home policies that are inadequate to cover potential…
Wild flames continue to destroy the City of Angels, and California Governor Gavin Newsom has yet to be held accountable for his failure to prevent the Los Angeles fires. Join Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay on The Spectacle Podcast to discuss Newsom…
John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Anthony Hopkins, and Jeff Bridges lost homes in the Los Angeles fires, and as Malibu resident Mel Gibson told reporters, “I have never seen a place so perfectly burned. You could put it in an urn.”…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The American Spectator might not be at the top of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reading list, but had it been, he would have known that California’s teetering insurance system was just one particularly bad wildfire away from disaster. Sure,…
WASHINGTON — Actress Sara Foster captured the rage of many Angelenos who have watched their city burn from the Palisades to Altadena in one social media post: “We pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our…
The two largest cities in the United States are Los Angeles and New York City. Both are dominated by Democrats and, last week, both provided excellent case studies in negligence and corruption. In the City of Angels, dereliction of duty…
WASHINGTON — Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is the sort of progressive prosecutor who thinks it is his job to curb mass incarceration. Last week, the L.A. D.A. announced he is reviewing the sentencing of Lyle and Erik…
If you have had even the slightest exposure to baseball news this month, then you undoubtedly have heard about the otherworldly exploits of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ designated hitter, Shohei Ohtani. If he wasn’t the biggest star in Major League…
