Gas-Powered Lawnmower Ban, Mandatory Gender-Neutral Toy Aisles Among California's Weirdest New Laws

California Voters Might Have a Chance To Ban Government Unions in 2022

Civilian Cops Don't Need Military Weapons

Joe Biden's Misguided Attack on Tax Havens

Republicans Got What They Deserved in California Recall

California Steven Greenhut | 9.24.2021 8:00 AM On the eve of California's second-ever gubernatorial recall election, polls showed dire news for...

Fixing America's Poorly Functioning Public School Systems Might Require a Bulldozer

Education Steven Greenhut | 9.17.2021 8:00 AM Do you ever get the sense that fixing our nation's ill-functioning public-education system is like...

California's 'Landmark' Labor Law Is Still Wrecking Economic Havoc

California Steven Greenhut | 9.10.2021 8:00 AM Just for old time's sake and because my cellphone battery was about to die, I hailed an airport...

California's Land-use Reforms Promote Freedom and Property Rights

Housing Policy Steven Greenhut | 9.3.2021 8:00 AM Conservatives promote the importance of property rights, free markets, regulatory reform, small...

Libertarians Correctly Predicted the Afghanistan Fiasco

Afghanistan Steven Greenhut | 8.27.2021 8:00 AM Given the partisan nature of everything, it's no surprise that debates about the unfolding...

Some Progressives Are Now Claiming California's Recall Election Is 'Undemocratic'

California Steven Greenhut | 8.20.2021 8:00 AM California Democrats are dressing up their opposition to the Sept. 14 recall election of Gov....

Conservatives Are Asking You To Disbelieve Your Own Eyes

Conservatism Steven Greenhut | 8.13.2021 10:40 AM The January 6 Capitol riot—depicted increasingly on the right as a peaceful tourist visit, an...

Trump's 'Big Tech' Lawsuits Are Ludicrous

Section 230 Steven Greenhut | 7.30.2021 8:00 AM No one should be surprised that former President Donald Trump, who according to a USA Today...

Antiquated Zoning Laws Are Worsening the Housing Crisis

Zoning Steven Greenhut | 7.9.2021 8:00 AM We've all seen the news stories about the nation's insanely overheated housing market, as bidding wars...

Some Prosecutors Are Daring To Challenge the 'Tough on Crime' Status Quo

Criminal Justice Steven Greenhut | 7.2.2021 8:00 AM One need only look back at decades of news reports about the behavior of various California...

Want Better Policing? Make It Easier To Fire Bad Cops.

Police Steven Greenhut | 6.25.2021 8:00 AM If you're a Realtor, contractor, or insurance agent who engages in serious misbehavior, the state can...

Unions Working Hard To Defeat Newsom Recall Effort

California Steven Greenhut | 6.18.2021 8:00 AM Analysis of the recall effort of Gov. Gavin Newsom has shifted from questions about whether this...

The 'California Dream' Isn't Dead. Yet.

California Steven Greenhut | 6.11.2021 8:00 AM Chatter about the "California Dream" has always been hyperbolic, but there's little question that...

Conservative Attacks on 'Big Tech' Are Turning the Constitution on Its Head

Technology Steven Greenhut | 6.4.2021 8:00 AM Throughout my life, conservatives have believed the U.S. Constitution means what its authors...

California's Costly Experiment With Online Community College Is a Textbook Example of Government Failure

Steven Greenhut | 5.28.2021 8:00 AM There are two basic ways to provide goods or services. The first is to let people sell whatever they choose as...

The California Exodus Is Real

California Steven Greenhut | 5.21.2021 8:00 AM From a real-world perspective, the recent news from the California Department of Finance isn't...

Nationalist Conservatives Are Abandoning the Ideas of Liberty

Conservatism Steven Greenhut | 5.14.2021 8:00 AM "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of...

Teachers Unions Use Political Clout To Keep Classrooms Closed

Teachers Unions Steven Greenhut | 5.7.2021 8:00 AM As it turns out, the late teachers' union president, Al Shanker, probably didn't utter the...

Some States Are Finally Getting Serious About Addressing Police Misconduct

Police Steven Greenhut | 4.30.2021 8:00 AM The nation has finally learned what it takes to remove a bad officer from a police force and provide...

California Has Seen a Staggering Amount of Unemployment Fraud During the Pandemic

Fraud Steven Greenhut | 4.23.2021 8:00 AM "I'm madder than a penguin on Miami Beach over all the mealy-mouthed politicians whining about the...

Conservatives Embrace Their Own 'Wokeness' With Attacks on Private Businesses

Free Speech Steven Greenhut | 4.16.2021 8:00 AM This week's column set out to highlight the expected Democratic attack on free speech and free...

Immigration Politics Are Killing the Debate Over Immigration Policy

Immigration Steven Greenhut | 4.9.2021 8:00 AM When it comes to immigration (legal or illegal), I still take cues from that radical...

Ending Civil Asset Forfeiture Should Be a Bipartisan Project

Civil Asset Forfeiture Steven Greenhut | 4.2.2021 8:00 AM During the seemingly endless run-up to the last election, my partisan friends would...

Expanding Government Power Won't Defeat Poverty

Poverty Steven Greenhut | 3.26.2021 8:00 AM In the run-up to the 2016 election, Ohio-based writer J.D. Vance became a national celebrity for his...

Time for Conservatives To Rethink Their Priorities

Conservatism Steven Greenhut | 3.12.2021 8:00 AM A recent column on a pro-Trump website argued that libertarians such as myself ought to stop...

California's Zero-Emission Car Mandate Is Empty Virtue Signalling

California Steven Greenhut | 3.5.2021 8:00 AM Recent news reports contained some eye-opening news, at least for those of us who are car...

Recall Elections Give California Voters a Needed Check on Governors Who Abuse Their Power

California Steven Greenhut | 2.26.2021 8:00 AM As opponents of Gov. Gavin Newsom come closer to placing a recall on the ballot, some pundits have...

Americans' Lust To 'Cancel' One Another Should Spark Soul Searching

Cancel Culture Steven Greenhut | 2.19.2021 8:00 AM After annoying some progressive activists years ago over a column I wrote about a property...

Don't Let the Capitol Riot Become an Excuse for Expanding Government Power

Capitol Riot Steven Greenhut | 2.5.2021 8:00 AM Many of my fellow libertarians were rightly in a tizzy after former CIA director John Brennan,...

A Higher Minimum Wage Lowers Opportunities for America's Poorest Workers

Minimum Wage Steven Greenhut | 1.29.2021 8:00 AM As part of their effort to promote a higher minimum wage, some liberal academics shared their...

It's Not Just Trump. California Labor Unions Are Trying To Reverse the Outcome of an Election Too.

California Steven Greenhut | 1.22.2021 9:15 AM In his first inaugural address in January 1911, California's progressive Gov. Hiram Johnson...

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...