Last year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed several bills to reform the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the 1970 statute that has long empowered opponents of development to delay or block new ...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) presents itself as an innocuous Muslim civil rights group—a reputation it reinforces with litigation and claims of anti-Muslim bigotry. But the group ...

As of today, Clarence Thomas is the second-longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history. That milestone would be notable for any jurist. For Thomas, it marks something more: the vindication of a ...

“You know why you never see white supremacists marching on the streets of NYC?” a former NYPD Hate Crimes unit boss once asked me. “Because they know they’d get the sh*t kicked out of them.” Some ...

Like millions of Americans, I’ve benefitted from the price war between the two pharmaceutical companies producing these drugs ...

California’s proposed wealth tax hasn’t technically made it onto the ballot yet, and already the state’s three wealthiest taxpayers have publicly announced their departures. With just these three ...

The Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, handed down Wednesday morning, is a big deal. The majority’s ...

At its inception, the Sunrise Movement was a youth-led climate advocacy organization. The group made a major splash during the first Trump administration, with high-visibility protests, like a 2018 ...

New York City students who went back to classes last week did so in the most inefficient public schools in the nation. Even as families flood out of the system and into alternatives, the city’s ...

Gas prices are soaring across the country, but especially in California. The Golden State average is now nearly $6 per gallon—40 percent above the national figure. That gap is likely to widen: UC ...

One-fifth of global oil trade transits the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic risk that, given current events, has shattered ...