It hasn’t been a good week for Pamela Price. First, there was the scandal of her cutting plea deals for those murderers who brutally invaded the home of a man and then killed him. The story received widespread news coverage and fed into the narrative that Price is soft on criminals, especially when they’re Black.

The historian Christopher Caldwell, in his 2020 book “The Age of Entitlement,” asks what America actually bought with the massive national debt caused by LBJ’s War on Poverty and accelerated by the Reagan tax cuts. What did those trillions of dollars get us?

What should a school do with a problem kid who’s a threat to everyone around him? It’s complicated. One problem is that the officials making that decision—the teacher, the school’s administration and staff, the local school district—all may have different opinions. Some may incline towards leniency and second chances, others towards maximum punishment, depending on the severity of the offense.

Justin Phillips’ intemperate screed against Chief Armstrong, in Sunday’s Chronicle, is proof that the radical woke left fears the Chief. They correctly perceive him as the most popular person in Oakland, the almost-certain winner of the At-Large City Council seat, and a future Mayor. So the mud-slinging has begun.

We all hate retail theft, right? We’re all pissed that security guards aren’t allowed to stop shoplifters. We’re all appalled at the brazenness of thieves who walk into Whole Foods or CVS, load up on whatever they want, and walk out knowing they’ll get away with it. Right?