We ask some psychoanalysts to provide tips to local politicians on how to be a good winner and a good loser.
Maybe the way to make San Jose more affordable isn’t by demonizing gas appliances, single-family homes, and urban sprawl—say CFR’s Pat Waite and SVGOP’s David G. Johnson. Perhaps local elected officials should reconsider what’s proven effective and reasonable, not environmentally virtue-signal at the expense of (our) cost of living. An Opp Now exclusive.
And why SJ City Council's stubborn refusal to withdraw support for the preposterous boondoggle is deeply, deeply misguided. Nat'l Review opines.
A dive into the data reveals a Progressive Activism monoculture is taking over journalistic--and other--job centres in the U.K. Ethical Systems explores.
Claims of Japanese government pressure and manipulation of journalism persist, as the media's dependency on access journalism and business interests have contributed to self-censorship and poor coverage of crucial public issues. David A McNeill of the University of the Sacred Heart explains in East Asia Forum.
If objectivity is a bourgeois notion, if language is just power all the way down, if feeling trump facts--it shouldn't be any surprise that newsrooms on board with these notions simply pump out biased pandering. The Niskansen Institute explores the nexus of bad newspapers and postmodern philosophy.
SF's Mayor Lurie scores a big media win on ABC's This Week, as he distances himself from SF's extremist, left-wing past. ABC News summarizes.
Lance Christensen, Vice President of the CA Policy Center, offers his perspective on the strategic decisions that influenced the arc of Mayor Mahan's gubernatorial run. An exclusive Opp Now Q&A.
AB 1421 is not a harmless technical exercise. It is an early-stage blueprint for a per-mile tax regime that could materially raise costs for California drivers, without any guarantee of better roads, or improved mobility. So says Los Altos Institution’s policy prodigy Athan Joshi in an Opportunity Now exclusive op-ed.
