#Latest news with #humanFlourishingWall Street Journal12-05-2025PoliticsWall Street JournalIs California Finally Ready to Try Compassion?At least rhetorically, savvy California politicians have been migrating lately away from the loopy leftism that created misery in the Golden State and helped doom the presidential bid of the Bay Area's own Kamala Harris. Let's hope that the latest acknowledgments of progressive policy failure lead to the enactment of meaningful changes to enable human flourishing. To take one prominent example, voters have known for a while that allowing people to live outdoors in public spaces is not kind to anyone. Are California politicians finally ready to clean up the mess they've made? The office of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D., Calif.) announces in a press release today:
Wall Street Journal12-05-2025PoliticsWall Street JournalIs California Finally Ready to Try Compassion?At least rhetorically, savvy California politicians have been migrating lately away from the loopy leftism that created misery in the Golden State and helped doom the presidential bid of the Bay Area's own Kamala Harris. Let's hope that the latest acknowledgments of progressive policy failure lead to the enactment of meaningful changes to enable human flourishing. To take one prominent example, voters have known for a while that allowing people to live outdoors in public spaces is not kind to anyone. Are California politicians finally ready to clean up the mess they've made? The office of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D., Calif.) announces in a press release today: