DOWELL MYERS, demographer and planning professor, Price School of Public Policy.
This op-ed originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
At the root of California's dysfunctional politics lie some old ideas about who we are as a state. Demographics have been more volatile here than in other states, and many Californians older than 55, who make up roughly 46% of state voters, don't want to pay for changes they never welcomed. The tragedy is that they are battling problems that...
EDWARD D. KLEINBARD, professor of law, USC's Gould School of Law, and PETER C. CANELLOS, former chair of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section.
This op-ed originally appeared at CNN.
By announcing that he will release no further tax returns beyond his 2010 and 2011 returns, Mitt Romney appears to have exempted himself from the proud bipartisan tradition of presidential nominees displaying genuine financial candor with the electorate.
What is more, his disclosure to date is in the wrong...
DAN SCHNUR, director, USC's Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics.
This op-ed originally appeared at CNN.
If you agree that a presidential nominee comes to the selection of his running mate the same way a football coach develops strategy for the last few minutes of an important game, then Rob Portman and Tim Pawlenty are the political equivalents of running your fullback off-tackle.
There's little risk associated with either choice: Both keep you moving slowly but surely in the right direction....
ARIS PROTOPAPADAKIS, professor of business and finance, USC Marshall School of Business.
This op-ed originally appeared at the Huffington Post.
Euro zone leaders' latest plan to rescue the euro, agreed to late last month, focuses on two crises: the continent's ailing banks and the sovereign-debt woes of Europe's southern peripheral economies. Unfortunately, their blueprint neglects a third crisis that continues to grow and could bring down the euro zone: Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain are becoming increasingly uncompetitive economically...
DOWELL MYERS, demographer and professor of planning, USC's Price School of Public Policy.
This op-ed originally appeared in the Sacramento Bee.
Proposition 13 is widely regarded as the third rail in state politics: Touch it and you're politically dead. It has earned that sacrosanct status because it solved some urgent problems for California homeowners. But that was a generation ago, a different time with different problems. As we face the challenge of reviving the state's housing market and...
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