Votes are still being counted, but it’s looking like the Golden State will take a significant step away from the progressive policy ideas it has championed.

The government’s leading program for creating affordable rentals is enriching corporate landlords while making life hell for struggling tenants—and politicians including Kamala Harris want to double down on it.

An environmental regulations case may potentially test Chief Justice John Roberts’s propensity for inventing novel legal doctrines out of thin air.

The task of cleaning up the country’s toxic old well sites could be the start of a so-called just transition. But first, there’s a fundamental hurdle: Most of the companies that plug wells aren’t unionized.

House Republicans’ farm bill includes a provision reversing a California law promoting more humane housing conditions for livestock. Opponents say the law infringes on other states’ prerogatives.

If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not OK.

A fundraiser in Los Angeles brought together classic environmentalists, Kennedy groupies, and new age hippies with a lot of money.

It’s once again become fashionable to bash the Golden State. This time it’s a lot more nasty, partisan, and off-base.

A rogue’s gallery of big tech edgelords and their reactionary hangers-on have a plan to remake the city by the bay in their own weirdo image.

Massively expensive weather events are getting more common.

Recent atmospheric rivers are a preview of what will become much more common as climate change accelerates.

If these Silicon Valley plutocrats have their way, a swath of Solano County will be transformed into their own nation-state.

As non-wealthy residents flee the unaffordable city, the public school system is facing a funding collapse.

Grieving parents are at risk of becoming mere props in the latest chapter of America's twisted war on drugs.

The bad news is that the California senator is gumming up President Biden’s important work. The good news is that this is all very easily resolved!

The U.S. representative from Orange County says her old law prof, Elizabeth Warren, has one speed: “full speed ahead.” She’s made waves in the House. But can she whiteboard her way to a Senate seat in a hotly contested race?

Red states are passing laws to advance their culture war. Blue states are passing laws to stop it. The Supreme Court is going to have to decide, and there is no compromise position.

From Stanford to Silicon Valley, a small town in California spread tech’s gospel of data and control.

Torrential rains, flooding, and mudslides in California are a preview of an alarming future.

The disgraced Los Angeles councilman says he wants to address homelessness. Advocates say he’s hurting any real progress.