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The LAPD Remade How William Bratton’s police force drove crime down—and won over Los Angeles’s minorities Winter 2013 |
A new biography overlooks key episodes in the California governor’s career.
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The LAPD Remade How William Bratton’s police force drove crime down—and won over Los Angeles’s minorities Winter 2013 |
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The Pension Fund That Ate California CalPERS’s corruption, insider dealing, and politicized investments have overwhelmed taxpayers with debt. Winter 2013 |
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Tom Wolfe’s California In the Golden State, the great writer first chronicled the social changes that would transform America. Autumn 2012 |
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California, Here We Stay Reasons not to flee an imploding state Autumn 2012 |
| Life with the Vandals If the coast of California is "postmodern," as its residents like to say, we in the state's interior are now premodern. Summer 2012 |
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California Needs a Crude Awakening Black gold could revive the Golden State—if politicians got out of the way. Summer 2012 |
| Let L.A. Be L.A. Unrestrained high-density development doesn’t become the City of Angels. Summer 2012 |
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Flatten California! A proposal to fix the state’s business-killing tax regime Spring 2012 |
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The Worst Union in America How the California Teachers Association betrayed the schools and crippled the state Spring 2012 |
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The New Class Warfare California’s superwealthy progressives seem intent on destroying middle-class jobs. Spring 2012 |
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California’s Demographic Revolution If the upward mobility of the impending Hispanic majority doesn’t improve, the state’s economic future is in peril. Winter 2012 |
| David Crane’s California Quest A nonpartisan group aims to elect “courageous” legislators in the Golden State. Winter 2012 |
| Think Long Comes Up Short A new report calls for higher taxes in California. Winter 2012 |
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Cali to Business: Get Out! Firms are fleeing the state’s senseless regulations and confiscatory taxes. Autumn 2011 |
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The Long Stall California’s jobs engine broke down well before the financial crisis. Autumn 2011 |
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California’s Water Wars Environmentalist efforts to save the delta smelt threaten to create a new dust bowl. Summer 2011 |
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Lost Angeles The City of Angels goes to hell. Summer 2011 |
| When Heroes Become Bureaucrats Why cops and firefighters stood by as a man drowned in San Francisco Bay Summer 2011 |
| California’s Legislative Blitzkrieg The state’s lawmakers are destroying jobs and stunting economic growth. Spring 2011 |
| Who Will Police the Criminologists? The dangers of politicized social science Spring 2011 |
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California’s Secret Government Redevelopment agencies blight the Golden State. Spring 2011 |
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Radical Graffiti Chic Sponsored by L.A.’s aristocracy, the Museum of Contemporary Art’s new show celebrates vandalism. Spring 2011 |
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The Radical Reform That California Needs Can once and future governor Jerry Brown deliver political change to save the state’s economy? Winter 2011 |
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The Afghans of Fremont Anxious, uprooted—and under surveillance Autumn 2010 |
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How the Road to Bell Was Paved Not with good intentions but with the avarice of professional government bureaucrats Autumn 2010 |
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The Sidewalks of San Francisco Can the City by the Bay reclaim public space from aggressive vagrants? Autumn 2010 |
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The Golden State’s War on Itself How politicians turned the California Dream into a nightmare Summer 2010 |
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The Muni-Bond Debt Bomb . . . and how to dismantle it Summer 2010 |
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The Silicon Lining California’s innovative high-tech firms keep creating wealth, but will bad state policies drive them out? Spring 2010 |
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Beware the Muni-Bond Bubble Investors are kidding themselves if they think that states and cities can’t fail. Spring 2010 |
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The Beholden State How public-sector unions broke California Spring 2010 |
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A Man Alone Jesse Lee Peterson versus the “black experience” Winter 2010 |
| We’re All Right-Wing Bastards Now —that is, if the NEA’s logic is to be believed. Winter 2010 |
| The Surge Comes to Salinas A plan to apply counterinsurgency doctrine to gang violence Winter 2010 |
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The Bilingual Ban That Worked Rising test scores vindicate English immersion in California—but Hispanics are still struggling. Autumn 2009 |
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The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm California taxpayers don’t get much bang for their bucks. Autumn 2009 |
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LAPD High Magnet schools sponsored by cops are getting results with at-risk kids. Spring 2009 |
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California’s Potemkin Environmentalism A celebrated green economy produces pollution elsewhere, ongoing power shortages, and business-crippling costs. Spring 2008 |
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The Rainbow Coalition Evaporates Black anger grows as illegal immigrants transform urban neighborhoods. Winter 2008 |
| The Reclamation of Skid Row The LAPD’s efforts are reviving America’s most squalid neighborhood—and the homeless industry is hopping mad. Autumn 2007 |
| Mexifornia, Five Years Later The flood of illegal immigrants into California has made things worse than I foresaw. Winter 2007 |
| Hispanic Family Values? Runaway illegitimacy is creating a new U.S. underclass. Autumn 2006 |
| How Unskilled Immigrants Hurt Our Economy A handful of industries get low-cost labor, and the taxpayers foot the bill. Summer 2006 |
| Seeing Today’s Immigrants Straight Advocates of “comprehensive immigration reform” let ideology blind them to the dispiriting facts on the ground. Summer 2006 |
| The Immigrant Gang Plague Hispanic gang violence is spreading across the country, the sign of a new underclass in the making. Summer 2004 |
| The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave Why can’t our immigration authorities deport the hordes of illegal felons in our cities? Winter 2004 |
| Do We Want Mexifornia? The flood of illegal immigration into California raises urgent questions that the whole nation must face. Spring 2002 |
