Nowhere has there been so much hand-wringing over a lack of "affordable housing," as among politicians and others in coastal California. And nobody has done more to make housing unaffordable than those same politicians and their supporters.
In her new book, “Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family,” Anne-Marie Slaughter, the president and CEO of the Washington-based think tank New America, argues that while we have made great progress, we must still knock down plenty of “obstacles and barriers to true equality.”
Russian by birth and a New Yorker by trade, the great songwriter Irving Berlin is now a Californian in spirit. For it’s his 1919 tune, “How Dry I Am,” that best sums up the Golden State’s parched status.
Honesty, like all virtues, requires cultivation. The first rule of cultivating honesty is to believe in truthfulness; the second is to practice it until it becomes habitual; the third is to resist life’s frequent temptations to gain advantage through deception.
Last week's meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Obama produced a significant bilateral statement on cybersecurity spying: "The United States and China agree that neither country’s government will conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secrets or other confidential business information, with the intent of providing competitive advantages to companies or commercial sectors."
As California copes with its four-year drought, a new Hoover Institution survey shows that the Golden State’s electorate is amenable—across ideological and regional divides--to continued water conservation and sharing groundwater resources with neighboring communities.
While he was addressing a larger problem, several points in Victor Davis Hanson’s article Is the West Dead Yet? resonate in the context of the assaults on our intellectual property system: But as in mid-fifth-century Athens and late-republican Rome, there are signs that the West is eroding — and fast.
President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin spent a longer-than-expected 90 minutes behind closed doors Monday in their first formal meeting in two years. Putin called it "very constructive and surprisingly open." NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell reports.
If investors could erase their knowledge of history and see a snapshot of financial markets from early July 1914, they would find little to worry them.
Bill O’Reilly is out with what will almost assuredly be a new bestselling book — and the Fox News host is not backing down from the criticism that has already been leveled or is likely to come.
Niall Ferguson, Professor of History at Harvard University, has analyzed the humankind's entering yet another turn of bloodshed after a short period of relative peace.
