It's difficult to imagine that, come the general election, California voters will be asked to choose between two Republicans for their next governor.

Scratch that. It's actually the stuff of nightmares.

We aren't talking Arnold Schwarzenegger-style moderate Republicans who could end up vying to lead this very blue state. We are talking about a...Read more

President Donald Trump asked Congress last Wednesday to pass legislation that “cracks down on rogue judges.”

Trump has repeatedly blasted jurists who issue decisions he doesn’t like, even calling them “criminals” and “a disgrace to our nation.” But demanding that the legislative branch enact laws that punish the judiciary is a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — An alarming question remains unanswered after the deaths of Minnesotans Renee Good and Alex Pretti earlier this year:

Does the United States now have a federal immigration force that can kill Americans in front of the public yet operates beyond accountability’s reach?

Good, a 37-year-old mom and poet, and Pretti, a 37-year-...Read more

As Easter approaches — a holiday centered on renewal and new life — millions of people are glued to a livestream in Big Bear, California, watching a bald eagle named Jackie tend to her eggs. After ravens destroyed her earlier clutch, viewers mourned alongside her. Now they’re cheering her on, hoping the eggs hatch safely.

It’s moving to...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It’s probably time for California to reform the outdated “reform” that could be leading us into an absurd November election with no Democratic candidate for governor allowed on the ballot.

The absurdity is that Democratic voters outnumber Republicans in California by nearly 2 to 1. But the voters’ choices for ...Read more

As a parent of millennials, I can see firsthand the reality described in a recent Barron’s commentary by Randall W. Forsyth: the financial anxiety many younger Americans feel is not misplaced pessimism. It is a rational response to an economy that increasingly feels stacked against them. The traditional markers of stability, especially ...Read more

Draft an important email without using AI. Write it from scratch — no suggestions, no autocomplete, and no prompt to ChatGPT to compose or revise the email.

Now ask yourself: Did it feel slower? Harder? Slightly uncomfortable?

For many of us, AI tools have quietly become part of how we think at work. And that raises a question we are not ...Read more

As the United States approaches its 250th birthday, the nation confronts a moment that should stir both celebration and sober reflection. A quarter millennium is no small achievement in the long arc of human governance. Republics have faltered far sooner.

Yet anniversaries, especially ones of this magnitude, are not merely commemorations of ...Read more

Chad Bianco couldn't fly to Mar-a-Lago, wreathe President Donald Trump in honeyed words, bestow the Riverside County Peace Prize upon him and hand-feed him his favorite dish — a Big Mac? — from a platter of 24-karat gold.

Security, logistics and all of that.

So the Republican candidate for California governor did the next best thing: He ...Read more

If a federal bureaucracy falls in the middle of Washington, D.C., and no one notices, did it really matter?

Just more than a year ago, President Donald Trump signed an executive order closing the Department of Education. Officially shuttering the agency would require an act of Congress. But Trump directed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to ...Read more

It was reported last week that the Iranian missile inventory has been depleted from about 5,000 to a thousand or so, and that the U.S. and its allies are now firing one or two Patriots at each incoming airborne threat, in place of the clusters unleashed at the start. In other words, both sides are experiencing munitions shortages.

But my longer...Read more

The state of American democracy took another dark turn under the Trump administration this month. The Federal Communications Commission effectively rubber-stamped Texas-based Nexstar Media Group Inc.’s merger with Tegna Inc., creating a broadcast behemoth capable of reaching four in five American television households.

The $6.2 billion deal ...Read more

Earlier this month, as I waited to pick up a prescription at my local CVS, I watched a man leave without his elderly father’s medication. The pharmacist had tried several tricks to lower the cost. It wasn’t enough. When the man heard the bottom line, he stuffed his hands in his pockets and, after a long, awkward silence, walked away.

That�...Read more

With the world’s largest sporting event, the World Cup, slated to begin in June, the United States should call a truce in the campaign of terror being waged by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies against immigrants and others.

Major sporting events have long relied on the so-called “Olympic Truce,” which dates ...Read more

Washington — a city built from scratch to be the nation’s capital — has always been a battleground for a so-called “American architecture.” From the city’s creation in the 1790s, grandiose classical intentions were a distinct part of it. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the first and third presidents, respectively, were active...Read more

With the Iran war threatening supplies of critical, energy-intensive materials, one might assume the U.S. government was prepared for this risk and has been working hard to soften the blow. In the case of aluminum, that assumption would be incorrect. Instead, Washington is making things worse.

The United States has spent much of the past decade...Read more

Frustrated legislators tucked an unusual provision into the recently passed $839 billion defense appropriations bill, demanding answers from the Pentagon on its proposed “Golden Dome” missile defense project. Defense officials were given until early April to detail planned expenditures over the next two years and must report annually ...Read more

We have a saying here at Bloomberg, and it’s one we brought with us to New York City Hall: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” The federal government is now in danger of proving just how much truth those words hold.

For more than a century, Republicans and Democrats have agreed on the need for objective data to inform ...Read more