California

2009

Greetings From California: Letter From a State in Crisis

Marc Cooper

Letter from a state in crisis.
The New Truth-Teller

William Greider : U.S. Economy

In naming Phil Angelides as chair of the new Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Congress has picked an aggressive, visionary reformer.

Push Back on Prop 8

Torie Osborn : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism

If the courts don't overturn Proposition 8, expect an initiative challenging it to appear on a California ballot.
The First H

Michele Willens

If California's historic 1950 Senate race had gone the other way there would have been no Checkers speech, no Watergate break-in, no Woodward and Bernstein, perhaps an early exit from Vietnam.
Are We There Yet?: A Liberal Votes in California

Annabelle Gurwitch : Voters & Voting

Who knew provisional voting could be a teaching moment?
California Dreaming

Lakshmi Chaudhry : Presidential Election 2008

The Golden State's lesson for Clinton and Obama is that they each need to craft a more daring politics of transcendence.

Locked Up in Limbo

Laura Mansnerus : Jails & Prisons

In California, sex offenders face the specter of incarceration without end.
Preparing for the Inevitable

Donald Cohen : Government

The San Diego wildfires should prompt political candidates to address the fact that communities across America are ill-equipped to deal with natural and unnatural disasters.
Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen

Naomi Klein : Environment

Gone are the days of equal protection. Intense natural disasters like the California wildfires are being met with a new model: privatized disaster response.
People Burn Here

Mike Davis : Science

Illegal immigrants are the invisible victims of the California wildfires.
Unseen Victims of California Fires

Amanda Martinez : Immigration to the US

Undocumented immigrants who have survived for years living along San Diego's hillsides and canyons now find themselves left out of relief efforts in the Southern California fires.
As California Goes...

Peter Schrag : Immigration to the US

What can the nation learn from the Golden State's struggles to deal with its immigrant population?

Bad Day in CA

Marc Cooper : Democratic Party

While Democrats on the national level dream of a landslide, in California, the party is facing another electoral debacle.
CA Leads on Climate

Mark Hertsgaard : Environment

California's global warming initiative shows how far ahead the state is compared with the federal government. But it also reveals how America lags behind the rest of the world.
The Race to Replace Arnold: Running on Empty

Marc Cooper : Democratic Party

The limp grassroots response to Democratic gubernatorial candidates reveals that the plummeting popularity of one party doesn't automatically translate into support for the other.

Arnold Show: Canceled

Marc Cooper : Electoral Politics

Buoyed by their defeat of Schwarzeneggar's "referendum revolution," Democrats and organized labor are now energized to defeat the governor's re-election bid next year.
Bringing Down the Bully

Robert Scheer : Electoral Politics

The lesson of the defeat in California of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's referendum revolution is this: The American people will not forever be fooled. The negative message of the Republican right has lost its power to terrorize voters.