J. Scott Peterson

On June 15, the Golden State is saying goodbye to many of the regulations that have shaped daily life for the last pandemic year.

Legalizing the sale of cannabis in California has turned out to be a fruitful endeavor for the state thanks to taxes.

Isaac Bryan is the founding director of the UCLA Black Policy Project and a big proponent of Measure J, which funds alternatives to incarceration.

Sherry Buchanan, author of “On the Ho Chi Minh Trail,” discusses what she learned about the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese women who survived its frontlines.

Vice President Kamala Harris visited Central America this week. She told would-be migrants in Guatemala “do not come” (to the U.S.), which drew criticism from progressive democrats.

Echo Park Lake reopened to the public this week after two months of being closed for repairs, with some obvious changes.

Joe Mathews says that focusing on the state budget, when it appears in good shape, obscures California’s systemic failures.

For most of American history, abortion has been legal, outlawed only from 1867 to 1973. Now the U.S. Supreme Court might outlaw it again by overturning Roe v. Wade.

As a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, U.S.