Will Swaim is president of the California Policy Center. A journalist for nearly three decades, he began by covering international business in 1990, was founding editor and publisher of Village Voice Media’s OC (Orange County) Weekly, and editor of Watchdog.org, a national network of investigative reporters. Will graduated summa cum laude (in journalism and with honors in theology) from the University of Southern California. He earned an MA in history from UC Irvine where he was a California Regents Fellow. A seventh-generation Californian, he has written extensively about California business, media, politics and religion, and is the winner of several print journalism awards and a Southern California Broadcasters Golden Mike award for public affairs commentary. With CPC board member David Bahnsen, he hosts National Review’s Radio Free California podcast. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, LA Daily News, the San Diego Union-Tribune, Orange County Register, the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and National Review.
Will Swaim is president of the California Policy Center. To contact Will, email him at will@calpolicycenter.org. You can also follow him on Twitter @WillSwaim.
National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast Episode 194 “Government mismanagement of California’s forests is making Americans everywhere sick. San Francisco is killing its black residents. Gavin Newsom makes mail-in ballots permanent, hands over Manhattan Beach property he says was stolen from its black owners in 1924, signs off on ethnic studies requirements for high schoolers,...
By Will Swaim
The Southern California oil spill reveals the immediate need to drill on land. U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland pours gasoline on the fire of public debate around masks, vaccines, and racial reckoning in the nation’s public schools. L.A. will require vaccination proof for all indoor spaces. A UCLA business prof suspended for “racism” fights back....
By Will Swaim
Latest episode of the Radio Free California podcast is out! Governor Newsom uses communities incinerated by wildfire to promote climate-change policies that will do little to mitigate the impact of decades of bad forest management, and then says he’ll make California a destination for abortion tourists. And we’ve got questions — like what does Assemblywoman...
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Latest episode of the Radio Free California podcast is out! San Francisco mayor London Breed says she had to dance maskless in a nightclub, and blames the “fun police” for documenting the moment. How Newsom explains his recall win. L.A. County kills oil drilling (to kill working-class jobs). California liquor licenses remain a prerogative of...
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Latest episode of the Radio Free California podcast is out! In this week’s episode of National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast, CPC’s Will Swaim and David Bahnsen discuss why there are reasons to remain hopeful following Governor Gavin Newsom’s win in the September 14 recall election, as well as some lessons learned. In other news, they...
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Some 300,000 Californians have stopped paying membership dues or fees to California’s government unions since 2018, the year the Supreme Court of the United States, in Janus v. AFSCME, ended mandatory union membership requirements for state and local government workers. The 20 percent drop in membership has allowed California workers to keep approximately $240 million...
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New episode of Radio Free California is out! In this week’s episode of National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast, CPC’s Will Swaim and David Bahnsen discuss the downside to letting California’s conservative counties join Idaho, and Kamala Harris’ clumsy message to Central Americans that set the Left off. They also dive into California’s latest COVID...
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Anybody with eyeballs is pretty thrilled to read the news out of California: one of the state’s most powerful government unions is getting out of politics. Richard Brown, incoming president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), won election last week on a promise to end the union’s political spending, to cut member dues, and...
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New episode of the Radio Free California podcast is out! The latest episode of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast, featuring CPC’s Will Swaim and David Bahnsen, is out! This week, they discuss how the Golden Gate Bridge got its name 175 years ago, chat about a big-name-politician who might throw her hat into the...
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New episode of the Radio Free California Podcast is out! California Policy Center’s own Will Swaim and David Bahnsen are at it again with their latest episode of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast. In this week’s episode, they discuss a barnyard metaphor used by a Santa Clara County official to describe the tawdry relationship...
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New episode of National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast is out The latest episode of National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast is out, featuring California Policy Center’s Will Swaim and David Bahnsen. This week, they discuss the California Department of Education’s pronouncement that math is racist in its ongoing race to the bottom. In other...
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New episode of National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast is out In the latest episode of the Radio Free California podcast, CPC’s Will Swaim and David Bahnsen discuss Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to hand out checks to Californians on the eve of his recall. They also talk about the latest news from the state Department...
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In their latest episode of National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast, CPC’s Will Swaim and David Bahnsen discuss a tale of two bills in Sacramento – one aimed at restricting teachers’ rights, and the other at limiting children’s access to education. Of course, it wouldn’t be a complete podcast about California without some talk about...
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Listen: Unleash the whackin’ New episode of Radio Free California Podcast is out In their weekly podcast for National Review, California Policy Center President Will Swaim and Board Member David Bahnsen discuss the case Newsom and his allies are building against the recall. Hint: It’s focused more on Republican challenger Caitlyn Jenner than it is...
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