Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times
@hiltzikm: Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author. Read my new book Iron Empires and my blog at https://t.co/XfRAFQVUlJ. Email at mhiltzik@latimes.com
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By: Michael Hiltzik
Ron DeSantis, who is expected to run for president, has turbocharged his attack on LGBTQ+ people, racial minorities and gun safety. How much lower will he sink?
By: Michael Hiltzik
A puritan crusader got Congress to pass an anti-obscenity law in 1873. The antiabortion lobby has resurrected it for their own purposes.
By: Michael Hiltzik
They were some of the most prominent academics in the country. They pushed a devastatingly wrong COVID policy, but they've never admitted their error.
By: Michael Hiltzik
Some businesses deserve sympathy when they land in bankruptcy. Then there's Envision.
By: Michael Hiltzik
Ron DeSantis announced his presidential candidacy via Elon Musk's Twitter, and it went about as well as you might have expected.
By: Michael Hiltzik
The rich won't be hurt a bit by the Biden/McCarthy debt ceiling deal. It's the poor who will pay. That was Republicans' priority all along.
The rich won't be hurt a bit by the Biden/McCarthy debt ceiling deal. It's the poor who will pay. That was Republicans' priority all along.
By: Michael Hiltzik
No one should be surprised that the resolution of our most moronic fiscal policy, the federal debt ceiling, involved our stupidest social policy, work requirements for assistance programs.
By: Michael Hiltzik
Every stock market crisis triggers calls for a ban on short selling to stem declines. It never works and is a terrible idea.
By: Michael Hiltzik
When anti-LGBTQ+ activists went after Target for selling Pride merchandise, they guessed the company would cave. They were right.
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