California

How Southern California became the epicenter of hype diets and twenty-dollar smoothies.

The country’s most powerful deep-blue governor, Gavin Newsom, ordered encampments to be dismantled. But lasting solutions are still needed.

In a state that could decide the fate of the House, Republican efforts may not be as futile as they seem.

How climate change is threatening one of the country’s most famous roadways.

An online argument erupted after a video of a law professor grabbing a microphone from a student went viral. But the debate has obscured some fairly basic truths.

In California’s crowded primary, can a longtime congresswoman sell her progressive ideals to the mainstream?

Scotia was created, a century and a half ago, so that lumberjacks could live near the trees they cut down. Its current owners have been trying for more than a decade to bring new residents to town.

William Camargo’s photographs confront the city’s racist past, provoking controversy in the present.

Politicians and commentators spend a disproportionate amount of time talking about a small subset of the homeless population.

Anthony Rauda, who was accused of terrorizing residents of Malibu, one of California’s wealthiest and safest communities, has been convicted of killing a man sleeping in a tent with his two young daughters.

In Riverside County, California, old-school car enthusiasts test their homemade hot rods.

Descendants of enslaved people want land seized by the state returned and recognition of the gold rush’s rich, and largely ignored, Black history.

This year’s rains reversed, temporarily, more than a decade of catastrophic drought. Some of the seeds that caused the bloom have lain dormant for years.

In the midst of the #MeToo movement, California voters recalled a judge for being lenient on sexual assault. As a new documentary argues, that recall campaign had unintended results.

From Silicon Valley Bank to Sam Bankman-Fried, the recent scandals upending the tech industry are rooted in a longer tradition of innovation and impunity.

Karen Bass on combatting homelessness, reforming the police department, and building a greener city.

As we waited for details to emerge, there was the familiar apprehension and dread experienced by so many Asian Americans since attacks against them began to soar during the pandemic.

Even as the state weathers a megadrought, climate change is increasing the risk of catastrophic floods.

If all Bass does as mayor of Los Angeles is smooth out the absurdly parochial and bureaucratic nature of city politics, she will have achieved a major victory.

As was true in the nineties, today’s fights about math are not entirely about what kids actually learn in their classrooms.