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.
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Are We There Yet?: A Liberal Votes in California
Annabelle Gurwitch : Voters & Voting
Who knew provisional voting could be a teaching moment?
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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.
2007
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Locked Up in Limbo
Laura Mansnerus : Jails & Prisons
In California, sex offenders face the specter of incarceration without end.
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Preparing for the Inevitable
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.
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Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen
Gone are the days of equal protection. Intense natural disasters like the California wildfires are being met with a new model: privatized disaster response.
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People Burn Here
Illegal immigrants are the invisible victims of the California wildfires.
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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.
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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?
2006
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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.
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CA Leads on Climate
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.
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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.
2005
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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.
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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.
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Before School
David L. Kirp : Education Policy & Reform
San Francisco recently launched universal preschool, designed to make young participants higher earners and better citizens when they reach adulthood. If successful, San Francisco's initiative could make preschool as commonplace as kindergarten.
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Is the Terminator in Free-Fall?
Marc Cooper : Conservatives & The American Right
Once seen as the vehicle of hope and reform, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger looks increasingly like an oil-burning jalopy of politics-as-usual.
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Stumbling Schwarzenegger
The California governor's campaign to pass a series of ballot initiatives is off to a rocky start.
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Leaving Adults Behind
Alexa Rose Steinberg : George W. Bush Administration
If Bush's proposed funding cuts go through, many Americans seeking basic literacy will have nowhere to go.
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The Terminator Stumbles
Arnold Schwarzenegger now holds a markedly weakened hand.
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The Outsider
Abby Aguirre : Mayoral Campaigns & Elections
Write-in candidate Donna Frye was the moral winner in San Diego's mayoral race.
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When Liberals Collide
Marc Cooper : Democratic Party
The Los Angeles mayoral race raises difficult questions for progressives.
2004
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Union Makes Its Bed
Kelly Candaele & Peter Dreier : Unions
The American labor movement recognizes that if it does not grow, it will wither away.
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Schwarzenegger's Education Failures
Shane Paul Goldmacher : Education Policy & Reform
The Governor is setting two dangerous precedents for education in California.
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Fear of a Brown Planet
A wave of minority politics is cresting in California--white minority politics.
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And the Winner Is.... Schwarzenegger, Again
Marc Cooper : Presidential Election 2004
The biggest winner in Tuesday's polling was arguably Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Schwarzenegger Just Acts Like He Cares for the Poor
Robert Scheer : Arnold Schwarzenegger
Scripted campaign over, Arnold now aims to balance budget on backs of those who can least afford it
2003
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A Watershed Strike
Kelly Candaele & Peter Dreier : Labor Organizing & Activism
The retail food workers strike in California may be the first in a series of battles that could shape the future of labor-management relations throughout the US.
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Just 'Frat-Boy Behavior'?
Robert Scheer : Arnold Schwarzenegger
California's opportunist attorney general looks past the allegations against Schwarzenegger.
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It's Who You Know
Robert Scheer : Gubernatorial Campaigns & Elections
We're all familiar with Arnold the actor, but who writes the script if he wins?
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Family Values Down the Toilet
Robert Scheer : Gubernatorial Campaigns & Elections
How can the GOP women endorse misogynist Schwarzenegger?
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Arrogant Arnold or Capable Cruz?
Robert Scheer : Gubernatorial Campaigns & Elections
The giggle factor might propel a Jesse Ventura wannabe into management of the world's sixth-largest economy.
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A Higher Tax on All Your Houses
Warren Buffet makes sense in rebuking Prop. 13--but the California politicians jump up to save this sacred cow.
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Reject the Recall, California
Republicans are running it as a shell game to distract from their misdeeds--don't play along.
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Blame Bush for California's Budget Woes
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush Administration
His daddy, his appointees at FERC and his old buddies at Enron screwed the state, but good.
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Letter From Silicon Valley
Rebecca Vesely : Employment/Unemployment
As unemployment soars, many workers are rethinking their libertarian views.
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Left Coast Notes
Gray Davis would love to be able to laugh off the recall that was just launched against him.
2002
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Gray Day in California
The Republican wave that swept the country seemed to crash and recede at the California border, but only barely.
2001
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California's Deregulation Disaster
Harvey Wasserman : Corporations
The California utility companies' mismanagement and greed led directly to some of the greatest miscalculations in US business history.
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