by jpitney | Oct 10, 2025 | Civility, Congress, Violence
Justin Papp at Roll Call: “A shutdown distracts from a lot of things, and could clearly distract from a mission like trying to dial down the rhetoric,” said Rodney Davis, an Illinois Republican who joined more than 100 other former members of Congress last year...
by jpitney | Oct 9, 2025 | California Politics, Local Government, Los Angeles
Alene Tchekmedyian at LAT: Los Angeles firefighters will remain on duty for an additional shift during red flag weather warnings in a mandatory protocol instituted after top fire officials failed to pre-deploy engines to Pacific Palisades in advance of the devastating...
by jpitney | Oct 8, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives, Separation of Powers
Jay Cost at AEI: By centralizing authority so heavily, the United States has rejected a fundamental governing principle upon which it was originally founded: the separation of powers. As the French philosopher Montesquieu wrote in The Spirit of the Laws, a work that...
by jpitney | Oct 7, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Mass Media, Public Opinion
Megan Brenan at Gallup: Americans’ confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This is down from 31%...
by jpitney | Oct 6, 2025 | California Politics, Housing, Regulation
Roger Vincent at LAT: Los Angeles apartment construction has dropped by close to a third in three years as developers struggle with unprofitable economics and regulatory uncertainty. Institutional investors are pulling money from L.A. real estate projects, preferring...
by jpitney | Oct 4, 2025 | Civility, Public Opinion
From IW Group: A landmark national study released today reveals a striking paradox regarding civility in America: while individuals overwhelmingly see themselves as civil and respectful, only 26% believe society itself feels civil. The research, sponsored by IW...
by jpitney | Oct 2, 2025 | Claremont McKenna College, Dreier, Journalism, Journalists
CMC’s Dreier Roundtable is pleased to announce the Fall 2025 op-ed writing contest. Entries should be in the form of an op-ed article of the kind that appears in newspapers and news sites. The op-ed may concern any issue in public affairs, broadly defined, domestic...
by jpitney | Oct 1, 2025 | California Politics, Local Government, Los Angeles
Liam Dillon, Ben Poston, Doug Smith and Jessica Garrison at the Los Angeles Times: More homes have been lost to wildfire in the last eight years than in any other period in California history. The five most destructive from 2017 to 2020 burned down 22,500 houses. Just...
by jpitney | Sep 30, 2025 | Appropriations, Budget, Congress
The Congressional Appropriations Process: Background and Potential Innovations By James C. Capretta, AEI Abstract: The courts should, and probably will, constrain the Trump administration’s aggressive push in 2025 to diminish Congress’s constitutional role in...
by jpitney | Sep 29, 2025 | Civility
Bryan Armen Graham at The Guardian: By the time Europe finished the job, finally, on Sunday, the golf had the last word. But until the thrilling denouement, the lasting memory of this Ryder Cup threatened not to be a single swing of the club so much as the ugly...
