Silicon Valley long has been hailed as an exemplar of the American culture of opportunity, openness and entrepreneurship. Increasingly, however, the tech community is morphing
Any serious student of California knows that the state’s emergence in the past century reflected a triumph of engineering. From the water systems, the dredged
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For generations, politicians of both parties – dating back at least to Republican Herbert Hoover and Democrat Franklin Roosevelt – generally supported the notion of
The British Talmudic scholar Abraham Cohen noted that, throughout history, children were thought of as “a precious loan from God to be guarded with loving
Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri and along the U.S.-Mexico border may seem to suggest that race has returned as the signature issue in American politics.
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If California is to change course and again become a place of opportunity, the impetus is likely to come not from the perennially shrinking Republican
In the coming election, we will hear much, particularly from progressives, about inequality, poverty and racism. We already can see this in the pages of