California’s new “motor voter” law has now taken effect, even if it’s not yet in massive use, and so far the sky has not fallen.

There’s a simple answer to the question of why the seemingly constant lying of presidential candidate Donald Trump has not cost him much, if any, of his standing among Republicans likely to vote in this […]

It surely looked like reefer madness was back the other day, when the state began advertising for a new medical marijuana czar. The timing of the listing, coming while a dozen proposed ballot initiatives to […]

For many years, California’s powerful Public Utilities Commission has conducted Kabuki-style dances with the multi-billion-dollar corporations it regulates. But the latest significant commission decision amounts to a descent into comic opera. When the PUC deals […]

It will be no surprise if Californians don’t see many needed highway repairs getting underway in the next year. For the Jerry Brown administration says it will take $59 billion to repair state roads and […]

It will be too easy for writers and columnists to formulate their Worst Moments of 2015 lists this year because, once again, gun events—terrorist and otherwise—will dominate those lists. Reflection on the darkness enveloping our […]

Editor’s Note: Below is an open letter from the Santa Monica Democratic Club sent on Dec. 12 to Representative Ted Lieu. Dear Representative Lieu: We the executive board of the Santa Monica Democratic Club wish […]

Ballot initiative campaigns don’t usually center around definitions, but the question of what’s a pension and what’s not is one battle over definitions that’s very likely to face voters this fall. After years of frustration […]

Rarely has a political party flailed in as many futile ways as California’s branch of the Republican Party. In a state where Latinos are plainly on their way to becoming the largest voting bloc, the […]

Anyone looking for a roadmap showing which of California’s 53 congressional district elections will be tight next year need look no farther than how the state’s House Democrats voted last month on a bill that […]