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Unlikely bipartisan Senate duo seeks to permanently ban ex-lawmakers from lobbying

In a demonstration of bipartisanship, GOP Sen. Rick Scott and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren are advocating a measure to permanently ban former lawmakers from lobbying.

Gavin Newsom’s budget ignores California’s ticking fiscal time bomb

Gavin Newsom claims to have balanced the budget for the first time in five years, but the revised proposal he presented this week gives...

Trump’s Anticlimactic China Trip

‘This felt like the two great powers of the world deferring any major issues.’

Our Screen Culture Increasingly Can’t Read

Over the past ten years, reading scores have declined in 83 percent of school districts. 

No, California’s Backyard BBQ Ban Proposal Is Not Justified

Nithya Raman’s wildfire ‘prevention’ plan targets backyard grills instead of California’s real failures.

‘Why Sotomayor Failed to Defend the Progressive Vision of Judging’

That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post

Utah Republicans Get Their Scalps

Justice Diana Hagen’s resignation is the latest twist in Utah Republicans’ escalating campaign to remake the state supreme court.

These Kennedy Whelps Just Keep Coming Back

Jack Schlossberg is apparently every bit as off-puttingly manic and erratic in real life as he is in his many self-posted video appearances.

The Supreme Court Green-Lights Abortion-by-Mail

The frustration of the two justices who wrote scathing dissents is easy to understand.

Strange bedfellows: Environmental groups and oil refining states team up to fight E15 ethanol

You wouldn't expect to see Wyoming's Republican Sen. John Barrasso siding with the left-wing climate group Earthjustice, but the two share a mission: Stopping Congress from passing legislation permitting the year-round sales of E15 ethanol.

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