It’s silly season in Sacramento. Judging himself wiser than Gov. Jerry Brown on matters of law and presidential politics, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed Senate Bill 27. The bill, called the “Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act,” is designed to troll President Donald Trump and annoy his 2020 reelection campaign. Brown vetoed it last […]

Two American traditions — summer celebrations and gun violence — collided in jarring fashion over the weekend. Here in California, a man armed with a military-style rifle snuck through a perimeter fence at the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival and opened fire late Sunday afternoon, killing three people, two of them children, while a dozen others […]

For every 1,000 Americans who pledge to donate their kidneys after death, only three die in a way that permits a transplant. That frees up about 14,000 kidneys a year — about one for every seven people on the 90,000-strong transplant waiting list. The longer they wait — five years, on average — the sicker […]