Republicans Can No Longer Deny the Reality of Donald Trump

Donald Trump Steven Greenhut | 1.15.2021 8:00 AM After watching last week's otherworldly events—a violent seizure of the U.S. Capitol by...

In 2021, Politics Needs a 'Leave Us Alone' Coalition

Politics Steven Greenhut | 1.8.2021 8:00 AM "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong," wrote the late...

To Continue Thriving, California Needs New Politicians

California Steven Greenhut | 1.1.2021 8:00 AM The late, great urban theorist, Jane Jacobs, wrote in her seminal The Death and Life of Great...

Can Conservatives Stop Their Movement's Descent Into Madness?

Conservatism Steven Greenhut | 12.25.2020 8:30 AM One of the modern conservative movement's greatest leaders, the late William F. Buckley Jr.,...

The Bipartisan Push To Gut Section 230 Will Suppress Online Speech

Section 230 Steven Greenhut | 12.18.2020 8:00 AM Keep in mind two immutable—albeit cynical—rules whenever you mull over some proposed...

Can Americans Inhabit Parallel Political Universes Without Compromising Freedom?

Election 2020 Steven Greenhut | 12.11.2020 8:00 AM Last week, I argued that President Donald Trump's own behavior—rather than a vast...

Trump Has Only Himself To Blame for Losing the Election

Election 2020 Steven Greenhut | 12.4.2020 8:00 AM If I argued that a group of highly intelligent, but nefarious aliens invaded the bodies of...

Despite Election Wins, California GOP Needs a Makeover

Election 2020 Steven Greenhut | 11.27.2020 8:00 AM Before you lash out at me for picking on the California GOP, please keep in mind that most of...

Voters Wisely Chose Divided Federal Government

Election 2020 Steven Greenhut | 11.20.2020 8:00 AM At some point when his bruised ego allows it, President Donald Trump will quit acting like the...

California Voters Rebuked Their Governor, Legislators at the Ballot Box

Election 2020 Steven Greenhut | 11.13.2020 8:00 AM If my social-media and news feeds were an accurate indication, many Californians had focused...

Where Do Libertarians Go From Here?

Election 2020 Steven Greenhut | 11.6.2020 8:00 AM At a Libertarian convention years ago, one of the party's candidates started saying, "When I'm...

California's Proposition 22 Pits the Future Against Its Enemies

Election 2020 Steven Greenhut | 10.30.2020 8:00 AM More than two decades ago, Virginia Postrel published a prescient book with a wonderful title:...

Pope Francis Is Wrong. Property Rights Are Human Rights.

Property Rights Steven Greenhut | 10.16.2020 8:00 AM A friend of mine, who had spent many years establishing a successful printing business in...

The Police Tactics That Caused Breonna Taylor's Death Should Infuriate Second Amendment Advocates

Second Amendment Steven Greenhut | 10.9.2020 8:00 AM Gun-rights groups understandably are upset that a Louisiana public school punished a...

California Is a Cautionary Tale for America

California Steven Greenhut | 10.2.2020 8:00 AM During a business trip to Michigan in the 1980s, I recall driving on a commercial street that ran...

The Postal Service is flawed, but it can deliver our ballots

As we head toward a contentious national election, an unlikely agency in the United States Postal Service has come into the crosshairs. Since the...

'Environmental Justice' Starts by Providing More Water for Everyone

Environmentalism Steven Greenhut | 9.25.2020 8:00 AM Environmentalists have won the latest battle in California's water wars, as California...

Is There a Democratic Plot To Abolish the Suburbs? Don't Believe It.

Housing Policy Steven Greenhut | 9.18.2020 8:00 AM As Republicans battle Democratic electoral advances in the nation's politically pivotal...

There Is No Defense for Looting

Property Rights Steven Greenhut | 9.11.2020 8:00 AM National Public Radio's interview last month with Vicky Osterweil, author of a new book...

California's Political Leaders Made Wildfire Season Worse

California Steven Greenhut | 9.4.2020 8:00 AM A few years ago, I blithely drove toward the Humboldt redwood forests across the coastal ranges...

Voters Will Have a Chance To Save Ride-Sharing and Delivery Services From California's Regulators

California Steven Greenhut | 8.28.2020 8:00 AM Uber and Lyft, we hardly knew you. As the California attorney general pursues its lawsuit against...

'Cancel Culture' Is a Dangerous, Totalitarian Trend

Cancel Culture Steven Greenhut | 8.7.2020 8:00 AM During the apex of Soviet totalitarianism, when Joseph Stalin was hosting show trials and...

Want To Reform Policing? Bust Police Unions.

Police Abuse Steven Greenhut | 7.17.2020 8:00 AM My Dad and I never agreed on politics given that he was unabashedly liberal in his views. He was...

Let's Have Fewer Public Statues

Culture War Steven Greenhut | 7.3.2020 8:00 AM If you think America's statue battles are at a fever pitch, then consider the battles that...

Why Is California Targeting the Tech Firms That Drive Its Economy?

The War on Drugs Drug Spurred America's Current Policing Crisis

Both Left and Right Should Stop Blithely Wishing for a New Civil War

Civil Society Steven Greenhut | 6.12.2020 8:00 AM "We are in a civil war," former U.S. attorney Joseph diGenova, a prominent conservative, said...

Markets Are Finding Ways To Survive the COVID-19 Shutdowns

California's COVID-19 Shutdown Was Driven by Science. Until It Suddenly Wasn't.

Coronavirus Steven Greenhut | 5.29.2020 8:00 AM In response to Californians who were protesting his lockdown orders, Gov. Gavin Newsom in April...

Restaurants Are Facing a COVID-19 Crisis. Price Controls on Food Delivery Services Won't Help.

Coronavirus Steven Greenhut | 5.15.2020 8:00 AM The coronavirus crisis has given politicians carte blanche to regulate businesses, without the...

Many COVID-19 Lockdown Rules Seem Like Arbitrary Nonsense

COVID-19 Could Force City Planners To Rethink Their Priorities

Coronavirus Steven Greenhut | 4.24.2020 8:30 AM All we need are ankle bracelets and Americans would understand what it's like to be sentenced to...