A San Francisco Chronicle report on her mental state is devastating and undeniable. DiFi, don’t be the Democrats’ Strom Thurmond.

Social equity programs were supposed to correct the disparities of the war on drugs as marijuana became legal. What went wrong?

The corporations flexed their muscle—and won—even in this very progressive state. That’s because it was never about better health care or taxes, but corporate power.

No, the gig economy isn’t taking over. Yes, employers use it to evade, illegally, their responsibilities for employees. Enter David Weil.

Police unions, the retail lobby, and other critics of criminal justice reform have seized on viral images of package theft and shoplifting to push for a rollback of California’s efforts to reduce its prison population.

The union-led movement has a plan to give fast-food workers a say on the job. California could make it a reality.

Tens of thousands of unhoused people in Los Angeles County suffered through a massive downpour this week. Now comes the bitter cold.

Ohlone people in Berkeley grapple with a California court decision to allow development on a sacred shell-mound site.

According to billionaire Tim Draper, unions are responsible for “fewer jobs” and “more homeless.”

After FBI informant Craig Monteilh failed to unearth extremism in Orange County mosques, he became an asset in local Muslims’ lawsuit against the agency. Now the Supreme Court will weigh in.

Amid a labor resurgence in the U.S., farmworkers struggle to recoup the momentum their movement once had.

Los Angeles wants the unhoused out of its combustible canyons. But no one ever suggests banning the rich from those same hills.

The Golden State’s use of recall elections and ballot initiatives was a bad idea from the beginning. It’s an immeasurably worse one now.

Gavin Newsom was in trouble until his team decided to make the race about Covid-19. It worked this year in this deep-blue state. Can it work next year in purple ones?

Rose McGowan should have done a little more homework on some of the things Larry Elder has said about women.

Adam Papagan’s campaign for California governor is a joke. But so’s the idea that you can truly compete if you aren’t rich.

Their attempt to oust Gavin Newsom will likely fail, so they are using it to seed a larger narrative about nonexistent voter fraud.

A California law limiting warehouse quotas could also help with high turnover, giving workers more opportunities to organize.

Democrats are realizing that the outcome of the September 14 vote has implications that stretch beyond the state capital.

Gavin Newsom’s wayward political career is not the biggest thing at stake.