Lecturer at Stanford University and president of Govern For California
To understand California’s publicly-funded school system, it helps to understand federally-funded health insurance. Both Medicare and the Veterans Administration are government-funded insurers but the VA is also a government-operated health care provider. While Medicare enrollees may…
Everyone knows housing costs are a problem for middle-class Californians but also troublesome are education costs. Recently the New York Times profiled a San Francisco couple earning $150,000 per year who just had a baby. If San Francisco’s public schools aren’t acceptable to…
Because voters pay more attention to what legislators say while special interests pay more attention to what legislators do, legislators have learned to loudly signal virtue to voters while quietly doing the unvirtuous bidding of special interests.
Alfred Hitchcock often employed a technique in his films known as a “MacGuffin,” which is an object, device…
Imagine you are a donor to a non-profit organization whose board members receive gifts…
