Author: Joe Mathews

California’s greatest art is supposedly created by collisions between the different culture in our biggest cities.   But if that’s true, how did Vallejo become a

As direct democracy expands around the world, finding public space to collect signatures on referendum or initiative petitions has become a global challenge. Sometimes it’s

Greetings from Taichung, Taiwan, and from the 2019 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy. We, more than 300 people from six continents, have met here

Right now, California’s critics dismiss the state’s efforts at fighting climate change by saying that one state can’t make global policy. That talking point is

Senator Harris, it’s time to come home.  And by that, I don’t mean to open a presidential campaign office, as you recently did. I say

Immigrants, already essential to California healthcare, will become even more important in the future.  Today, one in six medical professionals, and nearly one-third of physicians,

In our search for inspiring new ideas for solving California’s housing crisis, we must dig deeper. We must take our cues from Archimedes: “Give me

AB 1451, legislation sponsored by people who call themselves Democrats, is such a nasty and dishonest attack on California democracy that it’s fair to wonder