Elizabeth Warren, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, gets on her knees to pick spinach while discussing single-payer healthcare with farmworkers in the Salinas Valley. Beto O’Rourke,
California’s schools are woefully underfunded. Taxes on property should be higher. So why am I rooting against Measure EE, the L.A. Unified School District measure
California is an old and cynical direct democracy. We do little to make the process fairer, more inclusive or more democratic. Our machinations around initiative
Are Gov. Newsom and the Democrats pursuing a tax reform without actually declaring it? Conventional wisdom is that a big tax reform is impossible politically.
If I had a free Sunday to spend anywhere in California, I’d head for Balboa Park in San Diego. The Golden State has grand urban
Too many ideas for laws and constitutional amendments go to the ballot as initiatives directly, without stopping to pause at the legislature, or to get
President Trump and his administration seem to delight in doing everything they can to harm California and its people. They pair this hostility with so
(Editor’s Note: Joe Mathews will moderate a panel discussing “Will California Pick the Next President” in downtown Los Angeles tonight at the National Center for
Watching Gavin Newsom deliver a seemingly endless press conference to present his revised May budget proposal, one couldn’t help but be impressed by his command