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Can Los Angeles Be Saved?July 8, 2026 - 11:40 am
Look Past Partisanship and Celebrate 250 Years of FreedomJuly 6, 2026 - 11:41 am
Why the Fourth of July is Relevant to Canada, TooJuly 3, 2026 - 11:30 am
Zohran Mamdani’s Socialist New York Dream is About to Turn SourJuly 1, 2026 - 11:45 am
Can Los Angeles Be Saved?
/in California, Politics, Urban AffairsLast March, a makeshift drug factory exploded next to Los Angeles resident Juan Galicia’s craftsman-style home, built in 1910. The flames spread to his gas line, setting off a fire […]
Look Past Partisanship and Celebrate 250 Years of Freedom
/in Politics, Urban AffairsIt’s tragic that the country’s 250th anniversary is coming at a time of profoundly performative division. In one part of America, and among certain classes, the very idea of patriotism […]
Why the Fourth of July is Relevant to Canada, Too
/in PoliticsThe United States approaches its 250th anniversary deeply divided. Pride in the country, at roughly 40 per cent, has dropped to a historic low, notes Gallup, a trend most evident […]
Zohran Mamdani’s Socialist New York Dream is About to Turn Sour
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsThere’s nothing that the rising progressive movement hates more than billionaires. But there’s nothing they love more than their money. New York mayor Zohran Mamdani may bask in his new status as […]
Why Latinos Are California’s Best Hope for a Sane Housing Market
/in California, DemographicsCalifornians rank housing as their biggest concern — and Sacramento politicians seem determined to keep it that way. To be sure, there are much-hyped new bills meant to speed up […]
Retiring the Nutty Professor
/in Politics, Urban AffairsThe movie The Nutty Professor, both the original 1963 version starring Jerry Lewis and the successful remake by Eddie Murphy in 1996, is about a genius professor, obese but kind, […]
The American Revolution at 250: a Legacy to Fulfill
/in Politics, Urban AffairsThe American revolution and the constitution have left us a legacy that it is up to us to fulfill. Two central ideas made the revolution and the constitution important: that […]
The American Revolution at 250
/in PoliticsMy closest comparison of the American Revolution at 250 years is from Roman republican history. So far, America today is still a republic in form, and the constraints of the […]
The Myth of Europe’s Fascist Revival
/in PoliticsThere’s a spectre haunting Europe – the spectre of fascism. Or at least that is what the Brussels establishment and its media allies seem to think. They never cease to […]
SpaceX Spinoffs Launch El Segundo into Economic Orbit
/in California, The EconomyEl Segundo’s Chris Pimentel may be California’s happiest mayor. As his counterparts in Los Angeles, San Jose and San Francisco struggle with budgetary nightmares, Pimentel has at his disposal rising […]