How Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Drove My Generation into Politics
It’s often said that California is just like America, only sooner. We confront the same issues as the rest of the nation, just earlier. Perhaps no issue exemplifies that sentiment better than...
View ArticleCan Taiwan Teach California How to Thrive Under an Authoritarian Power?
Is California becoming another Taiwan? In asking that, I don’t mean that earthquakes will turn California into an island. Instead, what California and Taiwan share is a problem—the predicament of the...
View ArticleEven Kafka Couldn’t Dream up California’s Surreal Housing Crisis
I keep hearing you Californians calling your state’s housing crisis Kafkaesque. You are far too kind: I never imagined a bureaucratic nightmare this cruel, absurd, and surreal. You may opt out or...
View ArticleWhy Tariffs Have Backfired Throughout American History
In a truly iconic scene from the 1980s comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a high school economics teacher played by Ben Stein fails to elicit even a muscle twitch from his seemingly catatonic pupils as...
View ArticleWhy Amnesty Remains America’s Best Immigration Policy
One afternoon in July 1985, President Ronald Reagan met with his domestic policy council in the White House cabinet room. The question: should he keep pushing legislation to offer amnesty to...
View Article‘Equating Abundance With Stability’ Is an Existential Threat to the U.S. Food...
Agricultural scientist Molly Jahn started her career inventing new varieties of squashes and melons. But that work led her to wonder and worry about the security of our global food supply in the face...
View ArticleThe Real Battle Between Big Tech and the Free Press Is Just Beginning
From Australia to Maryland, the free press is waging a battle for survival against Facebook and Google. Besides being gushing firehoses of COVID disinformation and QAnon conspiracies, Google and...
View ArticleWhy Bringing Back the Fairness Doctrine Won’t Cure What Ails Modern Media
The Fairness Doctrine—the federal communications policy, in place from 1949 to 1987, that required U.S. broadcasters to address controversial issues and provide airtime to conflicting sides—is newly...
View ArticleHow Can Inventors Respond to the Real-World Effects of Their Inventions?
What is it like to be an inventor? Are inventors responsible for the societal ramifications of their creations? And how could a more holistic approach to innovation lead future scientists to create...
View ArticleHow Los Angeles Can Govern Street Vending With the Respect It Deserves
Street vending isn’t just ubiquitous in Los Angeles. It’s a half-billion-dollar industry, according to a 2015 report by nonprofit research organization Economic Roundtable. Street vending can no longer...
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