San Diego’s iconic Balboa Park has a billion-dollar problem hiding in plain sight

San Diego’s crown jewel is looking a little tarnished, and polishing it is set to cost a cool $1 billion. Iconic Balboa Park, the sprawling destination packed with museums, gardens and Spanish Colonial Revival style buildings, is buckling under decades of deferred maintenance — leaving city leaders with a mammoth repai

So-called “Democratic socialism” is no longer just an argument over taxes, healthcare, or the size of government. In the form now advanced by the Democratic Socialists of America, it reaches into nearly every institution that underpins American national power: the Constitution, private property, law enforcement, border