[aggregation-styles] The Wall Street Journal Subscription Move over, Solyndra. Another green boondoggle from the Obama era has failed, and taxpayers are out as much as $510 million. Late last week Judge Karen Owens approved a Chapter 11 plan of reorganization by Tonopah Solar Energy. Tonopah operated the Crescent Dunes solar...
OPINION: Bibi Wants Biden to Bend the Knee
[aggregation-styles] Newsweek Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not one to pull his punches when it comes to American presidents. The assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was not just a particularly daring attack against Iran. It was also Neyantahu's opening salvo against President-elect Joe Biden in what is...
OPINION: Global Trade Is Booming — Just Without the US
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription The world is turning its back on globalization, free trade and multilateral institutions — or at least that’s the conventional wisdom. Inspired by the nationalism and protectionism of President Trump and spurred on by the covid-19 pandemic, politicians and commentators’ talk of bringing home supply...
The Final Gasp of Donald Trump’s Presidency
[aggregation-styles] New York Magazine Subscription Donald Trump going out with a limp seems like an oxymoron,” a senior adviser to the president told me. In width and in word, in soaring skyscrapers and Brioni suits and arena rallies and various euphemisms for great (yuge, bigly), the man has been defined...
Opinion: Trump Shows That We Need to Reform US Democracy
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription It is much too soon to be thinking about a post-Trump America. President Trump remains the most popular figure among Republicans, and he will continue to play a huge role in U.S. politics in the years to come. But it is not too soon to...
California’s Government is a Mess of Bureaucratic Dysfunction and Aristocratic Indifference
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription LOS ANGELES — As the pandemic spikes, the economy convulses and democracy fissures, the urgent need to restore faith in government cries out for leaders with authenticity. Instead, in one costly dinner, Gov. Gavin Newsom dramatized the chasm that divides California — more severely...
Opinion: The (Back) Rent Is Too Damn High
Did someone say that suspending the responsibilities for renters to make their payments due to the pandemic on time would create problems? Of course they did. And of course it has. By the end of the year, Californians will owe as much as $1.7 billion in back rent, says a...
Opinion: What Barack Obama’s Memoir Leaves Out
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription The first time I met Barack Obama, he struck me as different from any other politician I had ever met. He was smart, well-read, affable and energetic, but that isn’t what made him stand out. It was the way he asked questions. Most politicians ask...
Column: The Republican Mayor of San Diego Was Right to Slap Down Gov. Newsom
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Subscription I haven’t eaten at a restaurant in so long, I can’t even remember the last time. Why not? Because I trust the warnings of public health experts. Because I’m not sure it’s safe. And because after months of scolding people for ignoring commonsense warnings about...
To Guide Police Reform in Fresno, Look at What the Data Reveals
The Fresno Commission for Police Reform was established to examine the future of policing in the City of Fresno. Many claim there is over-policing and discriminatory arrests among segments of our community. Fresno is not alone. Across the country protests and demonstrations have called for an end to racial injustices...
