Josh Gohlke

The last piece I wrote was spiked by the owner of the L.A. Times. I wrote this one for the internet! gohlkeapparatus.substack.com/p/i-was-an-la-…

Why opinion journalists are in the crosshairs – and how their disappearance from legacy media is already enabling the Trump administration’s worst excesses. gohlkeapparatus.substack.com/p/why-opinion-…

It’s great to see Gavin Newsom acknowledge that it’s “time to get serious” about producing housing. But why now? gohlkeapparatus.substack.com/p/gavin-newsom…

Having covered my personal calamity last week, I got back to writing about our national ones. substack.com/home/post/p-16…

A Weimar Republic, if you can keep it.

The Inquirer Editorial Board has made its endorsement in the 2024 presidential race: Vice President Kamala Harris. Read the full endorsement here: inquirer.com/opinion/editor…

Opinion: Donald Trump's advice on drinking and drugs is 'Don't start.' So what's wrong with that? latimes.com/opinion/story/…

My LAT story top of home page today: “By 1980, baby boomers...rapidly became NIMBYs...They went on to plant "Black Lives Matter" signs in their lawns. The message was hollow: We support you; just don't live near us.” latimes.com/opinion/story/…

My latest op-ed in @latimes arguing that we have a housing problem more than a broad inflation problem. We would be around 2% inflation is housing costs had grown at historical rates. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

My piece for @latimes Will we please start covering the issues at stake between the candidates & not the polls. Our jobs on campaigns is to change them & we will, but policy differences between Biden & Trump are seldom covered. The media must do better latimes.com/opinion/story/…

If you listen to California's political class, high-speed rail is a textbook boondoggle. Yet in communities across the Central Valley, the discourse is different. My attempt unpacking the bad-faith debate over our most ambitious infrastructure project ⬇️ calmatters.org/commentary/202…

I asked ChatGPT to make a picture of affordable housing. For every 10 likes, I'll ask it to make the housing even more affordable.

“Trump is a one-trick pony whose approach to every situation is the same toxic brew of grievance, vanity and hate. His legal strategy is identical to his political strategy.” latimes.com/opinion/story/…

"Among those Israeli soldiers are friends, children of friends, a brother. Are they going into Gaza? To what end? "Netanyahu famously avoids taking questions from Israeli journalists, so let me ask here. "What are Israel’s objectives in this war?" latimes.com/opinion/story/…

"Many political and military analysts have criticized Israel's intelligence failure. But the success of Hamas’ surprise attack also indicates an operational failure: a fundamental misunderstanding of the enemy’s nature regardless of specific intelligence." latimes.com/opinion/story/…

This excellent piece in the @latimes by @pennlaw professor @KermitRoosevelt on Section 3 adds the compelling historical explanation/justification for the former president's disqualification from the presidency that has been missing from the national conversation to date:

OK sports fans, Wednesday’s hearing was just the 1st of many in the weird and tumultuous year ahead in which normally inconsequential legal questions will have potentially huge consequences for national politics and therefore the future of our democracy. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Opinion: The $1 million home is becoming the norm in L.A. This is an outrage we could have prevented latimes.com/opinion/story/…

"It doesn’t matter whether the show you helped build generates 3.1 billion viewing minutes in one week across Netflix and Peacock, setting a Nielsen record." A writer of Suits says its surprise re-emergence earned $259.71. news.yahoo.com/opinion-helped…

“As skyrocketing housing costs in LA and the Bay Area push more people into outlying regions, those places have increasingly experienced the same pressures. One study found that Fresno endured the fastest rent growth of any major city nationwide in 2021.” latimes.com/opinion/story/…