I have kept quiet about this for far too long. I have worked in grassroots politics for decades — on local races, statewide races, presidential campaigns, and everything in between. I’ve watched hundreds of millions of dollars pour into elections, consultants come and go and campaigns rise and fall, while armies of conservative volunteers work […]

The U.S. Forest Service filed a proposed rule today to erase a 25-year-old federal restriction covering nearly 45 million acres of national forest. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says overgrown stands, insect outbreaks, and disease have turned healthy landscapes into tinderboxes. I’ve lived in California since 1990, long enough to watch the same story repeat itself […]

Free speech means the right to protest, criticize, and organize, including about Israel, including from Hollywood. It does not mean the right to be taken seriously regardless of whether the claims hold up, and it does not exempt celebrity activism from the same criticism that anyone else’s advocacy would face. That distinction keeps disappearing. Increasingly, […]

We’ve all become used to computer-generated scenes of disaster — of meteors thudding into the Earth with the force of a thousand nuclear explosions, seas engulfing cities, or people flash frozen mid-stride. There was something cinematic and unreal about the video from the Himalayas this week, showing what can be described as a flood, only […]