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February 23, 2022
The Bold New Campaign to “End Poverty in California”
Poverty isn’t an individual choice—it’s a collective one. And just as we choose to perpetuate it, we can choose to abolish it.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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February 14, 2022
Dying on Tulsa Time
Gavin Newsom’s pledge to shut down San Quentin’s death row brings capital punishment outliers into harsh relief.
Tom Gogola
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February 11, 2022
California Needs to Get Serious About Homelessness
The state has failed to provide housing to the formerly incarcerated and other vulnerable people.
Sasha Abramsky
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February 4, 2022
California’s Red Counties
The alt-right’s ascendancy in Shasta County gives a window on what could be a fractious political future for California’s rural north.
Sasha Abramsky
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January 24, 2022
The Past and Future of Native California
A new book retells California’s history through the experience of its Native peoples.
Julian Brave NoiseCat
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January 20, 2022
California Dems’ Big Moves on Health Care
Sasha Abramsky on politics, plus Ellen Schrecker on the ’60s.
Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
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January 14, 2022
Gavin Newsom’s New Budget Proposal Expands Health Care to the Undocumented
It’s a huge step toward universal health care coverage.
Sasha Abramsky
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January 7, 2022
Free Jarvis Jay Masters!
It’s long past time for California Governor Gavin Newsom—and the mainstream media—to take up the cause of a man who is almost certainly innocent of the crime that landed him on San Quentin’s death row.
Tom Gogola
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January 7, 2022
Republicans Are on the Retreat in California
Shifting tides after the attempted recall vote show that voters are concerned more with policy than with rhetoric.
Sasha Abramsky
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December 30, 2021
Remembering Rennie Davis, Remembering Joan Didion
Interviews with two we lost in 2021.
Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener