Dan Walters

California is a 21st century slave state. Hundreds, if not thousands, of human beings are being kept in slavery.

A collection of commentaries by Dan Walters over the past week.

Midway through the legislative session, there's no discernible progress on solving California's housing crisis.

California's vaccination controversy has a symbiotic relationship with the nation's abortion debate.

It was late one night 40 years ago and Gov. Jerry Brown’s most important piece of legislation was in trouble. Brown wanted the Legislature to approve a 42-mile-long “peripheral canal” to carry water around the environmentally fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, thus closing the last major gap in the massive state water system that had been […]

A collection of commentaries by Dan Walters over the past week.

The battle over California's "gig economy" is underway in the Legislature and a new front has been opened in the California Public Employees Retirement System.

Welcome to Sacramento, where the state budget is written in secret and decisions on important bills are made behind closed doors.

Donald Trump closes the book by California's "Shrimpgate" scandal by pardoning former Assemblyman Pat Nolan.

"Fungibility," as applied to politics, means there's no free lunch despite politicians' efforts to persuade us otherwise.