Michael Hiltzik

The debate is over: Index funds beat active investment management, hands down.

In ‘It Can’t Happen Here,’ Sinclair Lewis foresaw not only that a coup would come from the right, but that it would come clothed in populist rhetoric.

The Cadiz water scheme has been a dead-project-walking for two decades. Biden may finally put it in the grave.

The More Water Now ballot proposal is a huge budget grab by farmers. It should be nipped in the bud.

Thanks to the astounding success of its COVID-19 vaccine, Moderna is locked in a fierce battle with the U.S. government over who should get credit.

¿Son los temores a la inflación poco razonables? Depende de cómo se gaste el dinero.

Are inflation fears unreasonable? It depends on how you’re spending your money.

In victory for public health, a Texas court threw out a ruling requiring ivermectin for a COVID-19 patient.

Banks and the right wing know Saule Omarova may be an effective regulator, so they’re absurdly attacking her as a communist.

A new study supports the scientific consensus that COVID-19 reached humans from the animal kingdom, not a Chinese laboratory.