Twenty-five years ago, along with another young journalist, I coauthored a book called California, Inc. about our adopted home state. The book described “California’s rise to economic, political, and cultural ascendancy.”
As relative newcomers at the time, we saw California as a place of limitless possibility. And over most of the next two decades, my coauthor, [...]

Do you get the impression Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has reached a level of flippant frustration in his efforts to “fix Kaleefornya?”
The latest budget impasse may be the final, insulting reality that blew away any illusion he had that the nation’s most populous state, and one of the world’s largest economies, can be rationally governed.

His recent [...]