Joe Mathews

Host, "Zocalo's Connecting California"

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KCRW contributor and Connecting California editor at Zócalo Public Square; co-president of the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy;  Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation; author of The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy and California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It; former contributor to the Washington Post and writer of its Class Struggle blog; former contributor to NBC's Prop Zero blog 

Joe Mathews on KCRW

Leila Mottley was 19 and fresh out of high school when she wrote “Nightcrawling,” which captures the heartbreak and yearning of California’s inner cities.

Op-ed: Take a harrowing walk in Oakland with ‘Nightcrawling’

Leila Mottley was 19 and fresh out of high school when she wrote “Nightcrawling,” which captures the heartbreak and yearning of California’s inner cities.

from Zócalo's Connecting California

Commentator Joe Mathews says the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley is the best of its kind in the country, even if that has little to do with the 40th president…

Op-ed: No need to like the GOP to love the Reagan Library

Commentator Joe Mathews says the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley is the best of its kind in the country, even if that has little to do with the 40th president…

from Zócalo's Connecting California

Commentator Joe Mathews says the federal government’s sale of off-shore wind leases is raising questions about the future of climate and community.

Off-shore wind farm leads to a tempest in Morro Bay

Commentator Joe Mathews says the federal government’s sale of off-shore wind leases is raising questions about the future of climate and community.

from Zócalo's Connecting California

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