Fresno State News Dr. Xuanning Fu has been named Fresno State’s new provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, effective immediately. He has served as interim provost since January 2021. Fresno State President Dr. Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval announced Fu’s appointment on Wednesday. The provost is the university’s chief academic officer...
Next Steps for a World at a Make-or-Break Moment
For years, titans of industry and government have visited the tiny alpine village of Davos in Switzerland to discuss how to fix the world's problems. They pushed a globalist agenda, promoting things like liberal democracy and cooperation to address big problems like climate change. But less people are buying...
Donald Trump Is No Longer the Kingmaker He Thinks He Still Is
Is Donald J. Trump losing his impenetrable grip on the Republican party? The New Abnormal co-host Molly Jong-Fast thinks so. “What I’ve noticed is that Donald J. Trump is no longer the kingmaker he thinks he is,” she tells co-host Andy Levy on the latest episode, as evidenced by the GOP...
High-Stakes California Races Will Decide LA Mayor and San Francisco Recall
High-stakes primary races taking place on Tuesday are expected to have major consequences for police reform, incarceration and the state’s growing homelessness crisis. In Los Angeles, voters are deciding between a tough-on-crime real estate developer Rick Caruso and former community organizer and Democratic congresswoman Karen Bass. In San Francisco,...
Climate Change Is Coming for Your Pizza Sauce
It got really, really hot early last summer in the Central Valley. For days, temperatures spiked above 100 degrees, well over the 30-year average. Toward the south end of the Valley, many farmers had only just planted their crop of tomatoes, and the heat wave hit at the exact...
Putin’s Hard Choices: Why Russia’s Despot Can Neither Mobilize Nor Retreat
Russian President Vladimir Putin has landed in an unenviable position. His country has the resources to inflict damage on Ukraine in perpetuity. But because the first phase of the war has been so costly for Russia and because Ukraine’s military is mounting such stiff resistance, Russia faces serious difficulty...
Ukraine Wants Longer-Range Ammunition for Donbas Gunfight
The Biden administration is under pressure from Ukrainian officials and some in Washington to provide longer-range missiles to Ukraine after announcing a plan to send four multiple launch rocket systems to Kyiv earlier this week. The decision not to send the highest-caliber munitions along with the system, which the...
Israel Signs Historic Trade Deal With UAE, Its Biggest With Any Arab Country
Israel and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday penned a multi-billion dollar free trade agreement, the latest product of the two countries’ historic normalization deal in 2020 known as the Abraham Accords. With a stated target of increasing annual bilateral trade to more than $10 billion over the next...
Does California Have Enough Water for Lots of New Homes? Yes, Experts Say, Despite Drought
To some, it defies common sense. California is once again in the middle of a punishing drought with state leaders telling people to take shorter showers and do fewer loads of laundry to conserve water. Yet at the same time, many of the same elected officials, pledging to solve...
Keep an Eye on These ‘Overvalued’ Housing Markets as the Housing Boom Implodes
Fundamental economics tells us that home price growth and income growth are interwoven. Neither can outrun the other for very long. That is what’s concerning about the pandemic’s housing boom: Over the past year, home price growth (20.6%) is four times greater than income growth (4.8%). That disconnect has more economists flirting with...