The soaring cost of higher education has been a problem for decades. Congressional Republicans have shown how to fix it.

Last year, President Donald Trump signed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Because it contained so much — tax cuts, ICE funding and a new school choice program — it’s easy to overlook how it reformed the student loan ...Read more

This November, Floridians will vote on Amendment 3, which would drastically increase the homestead exemption for local property taxes and, over the course of two years, almost completely eliminate non-school property taxes for homeowners.

This sounds good — but it’s not, because the cuts will almost certainly be offset by shifts to other ...Read more

Nothing in this column is meant to suggest that if Democrats achieve a majority in the House in next week’s midterms, they should immediately impeach President Donald Trump for a third time.

Republicans are already rejecting hasty calls for impeachment by some impulsive Democrats as unalloyed political payback, and in some cases, they’d be ...Read more

Democrats have a path to the Senate majority, but it runs through a difficult map. They must defend competitive seats and win several Republican-held states. Their choices in Maine and Michigan have complicated that effort, while New Hampshire, once viewed as a safe Democratic hold, is now a real contest.

Maine was supposed to be Democrats’ ...Read more

The end of the Trump era is in sight.

Sure, our next presidential inauguration is still a twinkle in the nation's political eye. But it's finally possible to imagine a country whose president does not cozy up to murderous dictators, spend his energy enriching himself and his family, pick pointless fights with longtime allies or let a foreign ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — You haven’t voted yet because the state propositions are too bewildering? I’m with you. There are too many for normal human consumption. But I’ve figured them all out at last.

I’ve concocted my own personal voter information guide that I’ll share here. Heads up: I’m negative on most measures, including some ...Read more

On Tuesday, Israelis will head to the polls for an election that the international press has described as Israel’s most consequential in decades — if not ever. The outcome will determine whether Israel continues its march to the ultraright, in which extremist political parties increasingly serve as kingmakers, or whether it reorients to the ...Read more

California’s Gold Rush is usually told as a story of the past. But while we celebrate the prospectors and boomtowns that shaped the state, gold mining still threatens the landscapes, waterways and communities those stories leave out.

A new gold rush is taking shape. Today, foreign mining companies are pursuing new gold projects across ...Read more

Inside an abandoned work truck in northern Orange County one recent Saturday sat a steaming cup of coffee and a Danish with a bite taken out of it. The remnants of an ordinary morning, suddenly interrupted.

The truck belonged to a man who had gone out for gas and a car wash before the workweek. He never made it home. ICE agents had taken him ...Read more

I haven’t seen a news story about a political poll in recent years that wasn’t heckled for its sample size, crosstabs or bias. The identity of the hecklers depends largely on whose candidate comes out looking worse.

That’s how it goes when everyone’s a pundit. It’s about time we act like voters instead. As we barrel toward another ...Read more

Within hours on Oct. 16 the curtain fell on the five-day stint of the White House press secretary Katie Zacharia and rose on “You Can See Everything,” the documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, the fraudulent founder of blood-testing company Theranos.

While separate events, they’re linked in an era of ever elusive truth.

The story about ...Read more

Some voters are starting to realize that green energy isn’t as cost effective as promised.

For decades, green energy backers have promised to deliver the best of both worlds. They claimed that green energy, like solar and wind, would save the planet by reducing carbon emissions and would reduce prices. Despite years of leftist propaganda, ...Read more

If you’ve watched TV lately, you’ve probably seen this ad. Put out by Byron Donalds’ campaign, it features footage of a restaurant server, a utility worker and a senior-citizen couple, followed by a contemptuous voiceover accusing the Democratic gubernatorial candidate of wanting to raise taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security.

The...Read more

Having failed to keep the trust of voters he needs to keep Congress red while barring all others from casting ballots, Donald Trump is now setting the stage for midterm chaos.

This state’s cozy relationship with the administration gives Florida no protection. In fact, quite the opposite.

Florida led a legal fight to make sure it could use ...Read more

As climate change brings more wildfires, floods and heat emergencies, public parks have proven to be essential community infrastructure, yet they are still funded as optional amenities. That has to change.

When the Eaton Fire ravaged Altadena, California, in January 2025, residents were scrambling for shelter and emergency services, while ...Read more

Abdul El-Sayed is no Barack Obama. In terms of what he expects government to do, he's far more ambitious.

If you thought Obama's expansion of the federal government went too far, consider what El-Sayed has in mind.

El-Sayed criticized Obama in the past for the former president's inability to institute what El-Sayed believes was a big enough ...Read more

The federal government is drowning itself in red ink, caused by its spending far more than the revenues it collects. Economists agree that the debt explosion raises Americans’ borrowing costs, inhibits economic growth, and makes us all poorer. Yet our citizenry is rarely provided with detailed information about what drives this problem and ...Read more

The latest way to sell artificial intelligence is with a high-tech version of the promise that corporate America last bought from Six Sigma. Earlier this month, Workday Inc. told investors that its customers should pay for its AI agents out of what they spend on labor and services, not just software. Workday itself, its CEO said, was looking to ...Read more

Our higher education system is broken. Families pay a fortune for degrees that do not pay off like they used to. However you feel about the future of advanced degrees, they’re certainly a mispriced asset — a mispricing that started in the market for student loans.

The biggest distortions are in graduate degrees, where students have the ...Read more