As we close in on the halfway point of President Donald Trump’s second term in office, it is a good time to take stock of how the American system of free enterprise is holding up.

The Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index was just released by the Fraser Institute. It uses 46 indicators grouped into five areas to assess the degree to ...Read more

On Jan. 7, 2025, leaders from the Los Angeles County Fire Department, L.A. County Sheriff’s Department and Pasadena Police and Fire departments worked tirelessly from separate trailers in the Rose Bowl parking lots as they managed the Eaton fire response.

The county’s incident commander didn’t even learn the fire had swept through west ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When does positive reform become negative regression? That’s what Californians need to answer before voting on Proposition 45, which would substantially change the state’s landmark environmental protection law.

The business-backed ballot measure would make it much easier and less costly to build loads of projects —...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- It was a sexist joke, and not very funny at that.

During his recent "Saturday Night Live" monologue, comedian Shane Gillis observed that women working out in gyms these days dress like "w—." And then, proving his powerlessness in the face of so much Lycra, he added, "There's no other way to describe it."

Well, Shane, it's ...Read more

With just two weeks left until election day, Democrats can barely contain their glee.

Control of the House seems about to fall into their eager laps. Senate races in states that are normally cardinal red — Alaska, Iowa, Kansas and Texas among them — have grown fiercely competitive.

And, for the first time since 2010, a Democrat may soon be...Read more

Katie Zacharia was a good fit to be Donald Trump’s White House press secretary, meaning she would to say anything to please the boss. But she was a lousy liar who became ridiculed for calling herself a lawyer despite never passing the bar exam and Trump canned her after five days and a single brief single disastrous press conference on Tuesday...Read more

If you'd like to live near the water along the spectacular California coast at some point in your life, you have a number of options.

You can settle in, say, Culver City, which is several miles inland, and wait for rising tides to arrive.

Or, if you just can't wait that long, I saw a listing you might be interested in. It's in Capitola, near ...Read more

Step away from the minute-by-minute news cycle for a moment and consider what two of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council have wreaked: Russia and the United States, with their illegal wars against Ukraine and Iran, share much of the blame for reversing a whole generation’s progress in the fight against hunger.

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Anyone walking along the boulevards of Paris on Sunday afternoon will have sensed the “shame and anger” described by President Emmanuel Macron after a weekend of rioting.

Smashed-in storefronts, boarded-up windows and charred makeshift barricades hinted at the looting that hit some 1,500 stores across the country. Dozens of armored cops ...Read more

I didn’t need a national report to tell me what single mothers need to survive because I’ve been there; I’ve lived it.

In partnership with the Urban Institute, my group, the Jeremiah Program— a national nonprofit working to make economic mobility possible for single mothers and their children — published “Elevating Their Voices: ...Read more

“I felt like bait.” That’s how a young woman described an alleged sexual assault at a Cornell fraternity house. According to her lawsuit, she lay incapacitated in a fraternity bedroom while members of a group chat invited other men upstairs. Some came. She alleges they assaulted her.

By the following semester, she had left her dream ...Read more

Recently, I gathered with a group of dads outside Philadelphia to clear out a neighborhood park through Dads for All, the organization I co-founded. Some of us grew up in that neighborhood, some had never set foot in it, and plenty of us had no idea what we were doing. Our kids, ages three to 17, hauled branches and swung tools nearly as long as...Read more

The warnings about artificial intelligence keep getting louder.

The companies building the world’s most powerful AI systems are reporting troubling behavior from their own creations. And some of the researchers closest to frontier AI development warn that powerful new systems could “cause human extinction.”

Scientists fear losing control...Read more

If you know me, you know I love tennis. I play on two U.S. Tennis Association teams. It’s a stress reliever, and I enjoy the camaraderie that comes with doubles tennis.

But what I’ve never appreciated is the negativity the game sometimes invites. Like what Coco Gauff experienced at the China Open earlier this month.

Or like the racist ...Read more

The fact that Hurricane Isaias didn’t ruin more lives or property is not because Florida got smarter about predicting windstorms. It’s because Florida got lucky.

Isaias is the latest example of rapid intensification. It was a tropical storm Wednesday morning, a hurricane by midnight and 24 hours later, a Category 3 packing 120 mph winds. It...Read more

As voters approach the midterm elections, each party is eager to make the choice seem simple. Democrats point to the cost of living and argue that Republicans have failed to deliver economic relief. Republicans emphasize immigration, public safety and cultural questions, arguing that Democrats have lost touch with the country’s values.

The ...Read more

The rise of “CourtTok” on TikTok and self-appointed “stay-at-home jurors” is amplifying drama and polarization in our justice system — and the Lindsay Clancy mistrial is only the latest firestorm. Social media toxicity surrounding high-profile cases quickly takes on an apocalyptic tone, with many commentators fearing for the future of ...Read more

The Trump administration’s deal to let Russia supply 3 million tons of diesel to the American and global markets is illegal, dangerous and harms U.S. national interests. It undermines our allies, rewards aggression and further cements the position of the United States under Donald Trump as squarely on the side of the bad guys. For all of this,...Read more

There was a moment, around 2015 or 2016, when Tulum was the coolest town on Earth.

Every fashion magazine seemed to billboard the beach retreat on Mexico’s turquoise-water Caribbean coast as a mecca for global trendsetters. “Tulum style” came to describe a distinctive aesthetic — flowing fabrics, linen & crochet, neutral colors, bare ...Read more