The San Francisco Bay, home to Silicon Valley and its star-studded companies — Apple, Google, Oracle and Facebook — has long held the top spot among the Milken Institute’s ranking of top-performing local economies.No more.As of last week, San Francisco has dropped all the way down to No. ...

I apologize up front for missing some time from my column. Some of you may be cheering, but my mother is waiting for this one. I will explain later in this missive why the delay, and hope you like the reason.Over the last year, maybe like many of you, while we are quarantining or following ...

You expect a certain number of stumbles from a new administration. President Joe Biden’s incoming team professed dismay at having to create a coronavirus vaccine distribution program “from scratch,” due to its predecessor’s handling of the situation, and this week, Biden complained that ...

Pictures matter. Images convey truths — and falsehoods — with an emotional impact that can amplify and sometimes completely overwhelm the messages imparted by words.Consider the photo of the guy with the buffalo-horn headdress and naked midriff standing at the House speaker’s podium in ...

On Tuesday, six days into Joe Biden’s administration, it became clear why Susan Rice, hitherto a foreign policy specialist, was named director of the Domestic Policy Council. Rice — unconfirmable for a Cabinet post after her unembarrassed Sunday show lying about the Benghazi terrorist ...

America has a new president along with calls for unity, but it remains unclear whether or how America will be able to unite and move forward.Part of the problem is that it’s exhausting to figure out how the average person should approach politics these days, especially since almost any online ...