Christopher F. Rufo

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The Platner Affair
Plus: the Charlie Kirk assassination trial and an interview with Mike Cernovich on the Tech Right.
 • Christopher F. Rufo
How California Effectively Legalized An Open-Air Sex Market
Four years after passage of a disastrous 2022 law, cops roll past as prostitutes walk the Figueroa corridor.
 • Christopher F. Rufo and Kenneth Schrupp
The Establishment Left Concedes the Argument on "Woke"
Plus: Nick Kristof's strange moral logic, the birthright citizenship ruling, and an interview with Yoram Hazony on Israel, Iran, and Tucker Carlson.
 • Christopher F. Rufo
L.A. Metro Is a Crime-Ridden Hellscape
The transit system’s refusal to enforce fares has turned the trains over to criminals.
 • Christopher F. Rufo and Haley Strack

June 2026

Have Third Worldists Captured the Democratic Party?
Plus: Antifa radicals are sentenced for attacking an ICE facility, thoughts on the Daily Wire's recent changes, and an exclusive interview with Balaji…
 • Christopher F. Rufo
Gavin Newsom’s Circle of Corruption
Across nearly three decades in politics, the governor has assembled a roster of criminal connections.
 • Christopher F. Rufo, Jedd McFetter, and Susan Crabtree
How the Right Can Win the Culture
Michael Anton argues that conservatives need to change their approach to art.
 • Christopher F. Rufo
Inside California’s Gay-Certification Program
The state is pressuring utilities to award $633 million in contracts to “LGBT” businesses.
 • Christopher F. Rufo and Austen Hufford
Spencer Pratt Falls Short
Plus: the Karmelo Anthony murder conviction and an interview with Scott Greer on the state of the Right
 • Christopher F. Rufo
Gavin Newsom Broke His Promise About California's Fire Management Work
Starting last year, the governor “fast-tracked” land, now totaling nearly 100,000 acres, for fire management. So far, state-approved groups have…
 • Christopher F. Rufo, Shawn Regan, and Kenneth Schrupp
Can Spencer Pratt Save Los Angeles?
Plus: How the Right should respond to Henry Nowak's murder, and the intellectual clash between the tech-Right and the populist-Right.
 • Christopher F. Rufo
Honduran Drug Gangs Rule the Streets of San Francisco
In the Tenderloin, the “Hondos” have cornered the fentanyl market.
 • Christopher F. Rufo, Ryan Thorpe, and Jonathan Choe
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