The standard journalistic narrative is that local, statewide, and national politics is unduly influenced by big business. But much data suggests that, in fact, the opposite is true. Eitan Hersh explores in Annual Review of Political Science.
Read MoreIf the cancel culture phenomenon is a snowball effect (starting with recruiting one coercive professor), how can we stop the snow in the first place? According to free speech advocates David Puelz and Elizabeth Weiss, it’ll take hiring centered on quality scholarship; high academic standards for students; and perhaps a smaller, tighter university. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreSome cities get it done. Abilene, TX focused on individual, by-name client management and tight cross-agency cooperation to bring their homeless neighbors off the streets and into care. Community Solutions reports.
Read MoreIn the wake of a startling anti-Mahan flyer—featuring the SJ mayor's eyes x'd out in red—City Journal clarifies what kind of folks are fomenting political violence today. Hint: it's not the conservatives. Or the reasonable progressives. From a 2025 nationwide survey.
Read MoreWhile CA and Bay Area gov't prioritizes PR over public safety, wild projects over wildfires, the rest of the state is suffering—and leaving en masse. Turning things around is possible, writes Jon Fleishman of FlashReport; but it won't be flashy, quick, or easy. From Substack.
Read MoreThoreau's Walden is criticized, in many cases rightly, for being out-of-touch or hypocritical—but it offers us a great lesson today in Silicon Valley: that the good life isn't necessarily what is chosen for us by others (or ourselves). And that through careful reflection, we can break free from such bounded expectations. Kinfolk mag.
Read MoreIt's small consolation, but WalletHub ranks Oakland and SF even worse than the purported Capital of Silicon Valley. SF came in last, and all Bay Area cities are in the bottom fifth. The ranking is based on comparing the quality of the services residents receive against the city’s total budget.
Read MoreBoard members change, but the song remains the same at our troubled transit agency: government waste, mismanagement, and the creep of crony politics are the constant refrains. Athan Joshi reports for California Policy Center.
Read MoreThe Trump administration has found an innovative way to neutralize California’s sanctuary policies, forcing local officials to hand over illegal migrants for deportation despite state and local sanctuary laws and policies that bar them from doing so. Washington Post reports.
Read MoreA recent federal appeals court ruling has revived the possibility that landlords may receive compensation for financial losses suffered during the COVID-19 eviction moratoriums. The ruling allows landlords to sue the U.S. government under the Fifth Amendment’s “takings” clause. AAGLA reports.
Read MoreIn addition to getting their facts all wrong in their protests against Mayor Mahan's homelessness plans, local far-left groups extended a longstanding trend of invoking violent and bullying conventions in their misguided advocacy. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreWhen universities keep hiring ideological “mini-me’s” and pressure all other faculty to keep their mouths shut, discourse becomes toxic; faculty and their research grow out-of-touch; and students get unknowingly indoctrinated into the fold. An Opp Now exclusive. With SJSU prof emeritus Elizabeth Weiss and UATX prof David Puelz.
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