More Than 75,000 People Left California This Year, Census Estimates Show

More than 75,000 people left California this year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's latest population estimates, as the Golden State exodus continues.

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Poor Logic

Matthew Desmond, a Princeton sociologist who has won a MacArthur "genius" grant as well as a Pulitzer for his previous book, Evicted, devotes his latest work to expounding a "theory" that will explain "why there is so much poverty in this land of abundance," the United States. According to Desmond, the American people as a whole are its cause.

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Soros-Backed Group Pushes Chicago Mayor To Slash Funding for 'Racist' Police Force

As Chicago faces sky high crime rates and an exodus of major corporations, a left-wing group funded by Democratic megadonors George Soros and Pierre Omidyar is calling on the Windy City's far-left mayor to slash the police force and raise taxes on businesses.

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California Budget Hole Even Deeper Than Predicted, Newsom Says

California's budget deficit has swelled by nearly $10 billion so far this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) said Friday as he unveiled a revised $306 billion state budget proposal.

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Meet the 'Defund the Police' Advocate Chicago Just Elected To Deal With Its Crime Spike

The Windy City's politics blew leftward once again on Tuesday, with Chicago voters rejecting law-and-order candidate Paul Vallas in favor of soft-on-crime union organizer Brandon Johnson.

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‘Tax the Rich’? North Carolina Dem Stashes More Than $1 Mil in Cayman Islands Fund

As Democrats call on the rich to "pay their fair share" in taxes, North Carolina congresswoman Kathy Manning (D.) has more than $1 million stashed in a Cayman Islands-based fund.

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ProPublica Finds an Awkward Partner for ‘Billionaire Playbook’ on Taxing the Rich

ProPublica, the left-wing journalism nonprofit bankrolled by billionaires, appears to have violated its ethics policy when it hosted an event last week sponsored by the white-shoe consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

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AOC Ditched Amazon Workers’ Rally Over ‘Security’ Fears Weeks Before Parading At 600-Person Met Gala

'They said they canceled all her in-person meetings for the rest of the month but then a couple weeks later she was at the Met Gala.'