Editorials

For the second consecutive year, the public-pension fund has failed to hit its 7 percent return target. As it faces a funding shortfall of more than $150 billion, CalPERS’s recent bout of underperformance raises concerns about California’s solvency at a time when state and local budgets are already…

On the same day, many in the LGBTQIA+ community remembered the forty-nine people who were killed in a mass shooting four years ago at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Three days later, the U.S. Supreme Court released a decision that protects LGBTQ people from workplace discrimination. It…

Racism isn’t individual. It is structural or systemic. So are poverty or injustice. People aren’t just oppressed or tortured; they are systematically oppressed or tortured. This is the language of Black Lives Matter and some of the noisier Democrats, and it’s telling. It comes from Marxist academia…

Some, such as the health care industry, movie streaming services, and oddly enough the sex industry, have weathered the storm and even prospered.  Others have been dealt such vicious blows that it will be a miracle if they survive at all.  The cruise industry is one example. Around the world, ports…

Take the crowds that turn out routinely when charter-school places are up for grabs. Or the crowd so large that police were needed when a Chicago housing project invited residents to participate in a lottery that would relocate a random few to suburban communities with functional schools and job ma…

I raged at the sky for seven days and seven nights, demanding it rain down rocks of burning fury upon the Minneapolis Police Department. As I watched the news and saw rioters had set buildings alight, I felt in a roundabout way that my prayers had been answered. But this vigilante vengeance, as jus…

In fact, this Trump Era and Torres Era reminds me of the old South and the promotion of racism. But in the course of my Master’s studies in Political Science at San Diego State and Georgetown University we learned about Slavery and the TRUE origins of Racism in America studying America’s Founding &…

Conservatives could be forgiven for wondering why liberals need win only one election — or none — to have their choices made permanent, while President Trump’s voters could not even accomplish the modest goal of seeing the executive branch stop acting illegally to protect people who broke the law. …