Partisans want to blame things like “wokeness,” budgets or climate change for the disaster in Southern California. But it’s much more complicated.

Trump’s choice of topics is always instructive, and last week’s press conference was a far cry from the one he held last August, when he used a collection of groceries as props to hammer Democrats on ...

The wind-fed wildfires have killed at least 24 people and swept through 40,000 acres in the greater Los Angeles area, ...