Edward Ring is a contributing editor and senior fellow with the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. He is also a senior fellow with the Center for American Greatness, and a regular contributor to the California Globe. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Forbes, and other media outlets.
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Trump Again Defines National Priorities
/by Edward RingPolitical observers and partisan activists debate whether Donald Trump or some other Republican candidate has the best chance of beating a Democratic rival in the 2024 presidential election. But earlier this month, Trump demonstrated that just as he did in 2016, he is raising campaign issues central to America’s future, issues that no other candidate […]
Realigning California Will Realign America
/by Edward RingThe conventional wisdom among conservatives in most of the rest of America is that California is a lost cause. Rather than fight inside California, where you are up against the most powerful and monolithic alliance of progressive special interests in the world, dedicate resources to flipping purple states, and keeping red states red. But to […]
Automated vehicles: Driving us toward dystopia or utopia?
/by Edward Ring“Open the pod bay doors Hal.” “I’m sorry Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” – Excerpt from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey Humanity may be a long way from allowing an Artificial Intelligence program to navigate a spacecraft from Earth to the planet Jupiter, a trip of over a half-billion miles, but we’re very […]
DeSantis, Newsom, and the Algae Apocalypse
/by Edward RingIt would not be surprising if the final candidates for the U.S. presidency in November 2024 are Joe Biden and Donald Trump. But if a younger generation of candidates prevail in their respective primaries, an equally unsurprising outcome would be Gavin Newsom pitted against Ron DeSantis. While purists on both sides may find Newsom and […]
LAUSD’s Unions Could Support Policies to Help All Californians
/by Edward RingHere we go again. The Los Angeles Unified School District employees are moving closer to going on strike. We saw this as recently as 2019, when the United Teachers of Los Angeles went on strike. They got modest wage increases for their efforts but left the district in worse financial condition. This year it’s the […]