Migrant advocates are heartened by Biden's pledge to reverse many of Trump’s signature actions—but want him to go much further.
The president promises to sue his way to a second term. How far can his case go?
Are peaceful protesters at Adelanto Detention Center being tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed?
Empowered by a 2016 law, the state is quietly transforming the way Californians vote.
Co-published by Fast Company The ability to force the rich to pay their taxes is at least as monumental a challenge as the political project to...
Co-published by the American Prospect Prisons have been called universities of crime. What if they became, instead, actual universities?
“The best practices of psychotherapy state that patients should be seen weekly or every other week,” says one clinical psychologist. But at Kaiser, his average patient...
Gavin Newsom’s gubernatorial campaign was buoyed by his aggressive position on a single-payer system. Now comes the question: How far can--or will--Newsom take it?
Framing Prop. 11 as necessary to protect public safety was a strong argument, but it didn’t help that the opposition failed to file paperwork in time...
Supporters describe Proposition 11 as necessary to ensure public safety, but EMT workers describe grueling 12-hour shifts in which crew members can often go eight hours...
Environmentalists are hoping that a trial, due to begin October 29, will explain to the public how the government has known for decades about the dangers...
Legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky says the Supreme Court nominee "is going to move constitutional law very substantially to the right, and this will hurt a lot...
"Kavanaugh," says UC Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky, "doesn't have to say any more than is needed to make sure he doesn't lose the Republican...
The stacking of the U.S. Supreme Court with anti-union justices has allowed the right-to-work movement to circumvent, and undercut, pro-union state policies.
A January study found that 11 percent of students on the California State University's 23-campuses reported being homeless during the past year. At Humboldt State nearly...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells of his encounters with Donald Trump, a man he calls a "Potemkin president."
A new Congressional bill would reduce a broad range of agriculture workers to the status of "guest workers." California's dairy owners are ecstatic. Co-published by International...
California's 1.4 million-member public-sector unions are the key force that has pushed the state toward increasingly progressive policies. The Supreme Court could seriously diminish that force.
Co-published by Newsweek Undocumented laborers who worked in Wine Country vineyards are now finding the only assistance they can hope for, following Northern California's recent wildfires,...
Co-published by International Business Times Proposition 13's backers have fended off legal challenges and watched as many efforts to amend it in Sacramento fizzled. What they haven't...