Housing
Are housing costs to blame for California’s plummeting fertility rate?
California's birth rate has dipped below the national average—and experts say the state's soaring housing costs are crimping its fertility.
University of Southern California
Politics
More than half of states have been governed by a woman—why not California?
California is supposed to be the vanguard of social change, but by one metric the state seems downright retrograde: It has rejected ever female candidate who's ever run for governor.