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A UC Berkeley inequality study finds that, although efforts to reduce inequality are popular, many of the rich or people in “advantaged groups” resist equity policies, believing they’ll be harmed.

To build a truly diverse physician workforce, research shows the need for investment in programs that prepare students for medical school.

A new California compact has to mobilize the entire postsecondary education system to advance racial justice in the teaching mission.

Starting today, millions of Californians will be subject to new stay-at-home orders amid a third wave of COVID-19 infections that has hospitalized a record number of residents. Under Los Angeles County’s new stay-at-home order — which lasts through Dec. 20 — almost all gatherings are banned, and retail stores must further limit capacity. Santa Clara […]

Good morning, California. It’s Monday, November 16. More shutdowns? Here we go again. As Thanksgiving approaches, California is racking up a series of grim statistics. On Thursday, it became the second state to surpass 1 million coronavirus cases — the same day it recorded more new infections than all but nine other days of the […]

Once a bastion of California Republicanism, Orange County is now purple with a stubborn conservative streak.

In California and elsewhere, the winners in last week's election are celebrating and the losers are engaging in rationalizations and fingerpointing.

Voters in blue California are favoring Joe Biden and other Democrats but unions are faring poorly vis-a-vis corporations.

Track how California has voted in the 2020 election, including for president, Congress, the Legislature and 12 state propositions.

Thirty-two weeks after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the nation’s first stay-at-home order, counties across California are forming coalitions to challenge what they say is prolonged top-down rule from Sacramento. Officials from 12 rural counties gathered Thursday for the “Conference of North State Representatives,” an event aimed at “restor(ing) representative democracy for our citizens.” On the […]