# Bill Whalen

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California Update: The 50-50 Proposition

As California enters the final phase leading up to its Nov. 4 special election and a vote on Proposition 50, plenty of unknowns surround the fate of the controversial ballot measure that would redraw California’s congressional districts to offset a Republican-led gerrymander in Texas. Hoover senio…

BENSON BYTE: Bill Whalen Breaks Down Gavin Newsom's "Powerplay" Redistricting Scheme

Bill Whalen, the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Distinguished Policy Fellow in Journalism and a Hoover Institution research fellow since 1999, joined the Guy Benson Show today live from the Hoover Institution to discuss California's dangerous Prop 50 campaign in the state. The proposition could single h…

California Update: Prop 50 Legalities, L.A. Fire Confusion . . . and Bad News for Billionaires?

After a lopsided victory earlier this month, can California’s redistricting Proposition 50 survive a legal challenge? And why do last January’s devastating fires in Los Angeles continue to raise unsettling questions? Hoover senior fellow Lee Ohanian and distinguished policy fellow Bill Whalen, bot…

California Update: New Year, “New” Newsom . . . Same Old Problems?

California’s new year begins with a “new” version of Gov. Gavin Newsom – offering Sacramento lawmakers a detailed and in-person State of the State Address, as opposed to recent years when the governor eschewed such pageantry. Hoover senior fellow Lee Ohanian and distinguished policy fellow Bill Wha…

The Business of Love and the Cost of Parenting

Depending on one’s outlook and relationship status (and a willingness to spend lavishly on romantic gestures), Valentine's Day is an annual ritual to be loved or loathed. But is it living up to its unstated end goal – i.e., romance blossoming into love and commitment, which in turn leads to parenth…

The Book on (and of) Newsom; A Bedeviled City of Angels

California Governor Gavin Newsom pads his frequent-flier miles: after two trips to Europe already this year, a nationwide tour promoting his new memoir (and presidential prospects). Meanwhile, political upheaval finds its way to disaster-prone Los Angeles with a plot twist in an already contentious…

The State of American Citizenship

Assuming we already understand the parameters of “good citizenship” (obey the law; do no harm to others), how to decide what constitutes a “well-informed” citizen? Tom Schnaubelt, executive director of Hoover’s Revitalizing American Institutions (RAI) initiative, and Checker Finn, a Hoover senior f…

India: Brain Gains and Growing Pains with Šumit Ganguly

Two decades shy of its 100th anniversary of statehood, how is India progressing in its goal of becoming an innovative, prosperous, greener and developed nation? Šumit Ganguly, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and director of Hoover’s Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations, discuss…

All Roads Leads To . . .? Barry Strauss on Ancient Rome, Modern Warfare

We know what fate befell Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 B.C., but how does ancient Rome’s treatment of its adversaries and allies and compare to the current American “excursion” in Iran and overall US foreign policy? Barry Strauss, the Hoover Institution’s Corliss Page Dean Senior Fellow and a milit…

California Update: Cancelling a Debate . . . and a Labor Icon

Can California’s governor’s race get any airtime (a televised debate scratched after a controversy over four candidates who didn’t make the cut), much less any traction with a disinterested electorate? Hoover senior fellow Lee Ohanian and distinguished policy fellow Bill Whalen, both contributors …