Author: Joe Mathews

The week before Thanksgiving, I served again as co-president of the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy. This is a network of journalists, scholars, election

The devastating housing shortage in California keeps getting worse. Housing prices won’t stop rising. Why can’t we solve the problem? Perhaps it’s because all of

An interesting revelation at the USC Schwarzenegger Institute’s postmortem event on California’s U.S. Senate race: The two candidates to emerge from the first round of

Dear Kevin de León, Your heart isn’t in the legislature, is it? I don’t know if it’s your next job that’s preoccupying you. Or whether

California is finally embracing its rivers. But it may be a choking embrace. We Californians have long celebrated our coastal splendor and toasted the height

Immediately after the election, I wrote in this space that Gov. Jerry Brown was now the president of the American dream, if not the United

For California to counter the kleptocratic, white supremacist movement that’s about to take over the White House, it needs to start treating Donald Trump more

California may have the size and economy and independent spirit of a good-sized country. But California is not a nation. Which is precisely why it