Can America re-create a vibrant domestic semiconductor industry and, if so, what does that portend for an already strategically-vulnerable Taiwan?

The latest in the Golden State.

Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen discusses innovative ideas for lowering healthcare costs, easing the system’s regulatory burdens, and offering patients greater freedom to design their own plans.

The economics and politics of the Hollywood strike, California’s K-12 math and social-science curriculum changes under fire, plus a nascent field of Democrats hoping to be California’s next governor.

The justices’ reasoning on race and free speech, what the future holds for college admissions (Harvard’s legacy factor now the subject of a lawsuit), plus the unusually personal nature of a few of the opinions.

The latest in the Golden State, including the summer’s first heat wave, the oddities of 4th of July on the West Coast, plus a Vanity Fair profile of a California overly obsessed with crime.

Lessons learned and the status of the three-decade charter school movement.

The Arab League readmitting Syria, the significance of regional lands conducting their own diplomacy without direct US involvement, the role of a fragile regime in Iran, plus the long shadows of Russia and China.

China in search of data, North Korea in need of cash – and the push and pull between the US government and the nation’s commercial and tech sectors over taking responsibility for future attacks.

The fine art of quality war-gaming – and how the practice applies to current tensions between the US and China

Policies San Francisco could implement to rejuvenate its business sector, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ dust-up, plus the left’s efforts to force a frail senator Dianne Feinstein into an early retirement.

John Cochrane reflects on lessons learned from inflation, institutional drift, and the art of economic storytelling.

San Francisco’s fentanyl “crackdown” begins; California’s budget drama heats up inside the State Capitol; and Governor Gavin Newsom’s ongoing obsession with national politics prompts a media backlash back at home.

At the dawn of the 20th Century, control of the African continent centered around European colonial desires – national pride, natural resources, and manpower.

One economist believes that what is lacking in America today is too little in the way of intellectual curiosity.

The current state of the GOP “establishment” plus Ginsberg’s current Hoover projects devoted to election integrity and re-instilling voter confidence.

The latest in the Golden State.

The latest in Europe and the Middle East.

The health of the two parties’ as we head into the next presidential race.

The latest in the Golden State including why Newsom chose not to deliver a State of the State address, fentanyl-plagued San Francisco revisiting its sanctuary policy, and California bracing for (sigh) another round of battering rainstorms.

The oversized influence of teachers’ unions in policy-making, elections, and interest-group politics.

What are the prospects that the hostilities from the war in Ukraine will spread across the European continent?

The constitutionality of President Biden’s student loan debt-forgiveness plan, state legislatures’ roles in redistricting, and whether California can export woke business practices across state lines.

Lessons learned from World War II and the fine art of understanding enemies especially when dealing with the likes of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.

Can California governor Gavin Newsom play a role in the congressional debate over an assault weapons ban and what is the feasibility of reparations for San Francisco’s black community?