Susan Hennessey

The California legislative session wrapped up just before 1:30 a.m. today. It was a manic night with time limits on bill debates.

The movements of the sixties, which are captured in detail in Mike Davis and Jon Wiener’s new book Set the Night on Fire, are seen as wildly successful.

“The Great Influenza” author John Barry gave us a warning 16 years ago that is extremely relevant to today’s Covid-19 pandemic: It is always fatal to allow politics to trump science.

In some parts of California and the U.S., there’s a deep level of mistrust toward contact tracers.

Early voting began today in Virginia, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Minnesota.

Communications scholar Mark Lloyd explains how the USPS, which is enshrined in the Constitution, became a political battleground.

As California finally starts showing signs of getting a handle on the coronavirus, health officials up and down the Golden State are concerned backsliding could happen if we ease up on…

Journalist David Dayen examines how the greatest danger to our American society doesn’t come from the White House, but from a few obscenely powerful corporations.

It’s hard to know if the ballot measure to undo Proposition 13 will have its intended effect