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...
In an interview with Capital & Main, the California State Controller offers her assessment of the president's proposal, and concludes that it is not genuine tax...
The future of an Obama-era rule to double the overtime salary threshold to $47,476 is uncertain under Donald Trump's Labor Department.
Co-published by The American Prospect Uber? That's so 2015. A new report finds that we don’t know as much about the sharing economy as we think we...
As the 2016 presidential campaign intensified, California business people would prove to be a critical source of financial support for Donald Trump, especially as more traditional...
Last Friday, the Sheriff of Sacramento County, Scott Jones, announced that he would host a community forum with Thomas Homan, the acting director of Immigration and...
Co-published by Newsweek. On election night last November, Nathan Damigo, a 30-year-old white nationalist and student at California State University, Stanislaus, met up with friends in...