Tag: California
Why there are so many unsheltered homeless people on the West...
Margot Kushel, University of California, San Francisco
One-quarter of homeless people in the U.S. live in California, despite Californians making up only 12 percent of...
End of the gig economy? Don’t read too much into a...
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
A recent California Supreme Court ruling is being hailed as a “game changer” for the gig economy.
That’s...
Why Trump’s infrastructure ambitions are likely to stall
Caroline Nowacki, Stanford University and Kate Gasparro, Stanford University
President Donald Trump recently raised the ante with his promise to unleash a wave of new...
Trump’s push for new offshore drilling is likely to run aground...
Charles Lester, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Trump administration’s effort to dramatically expand federal offshore oil production has reignited a battle with California that...
Healthy to eat, unhealthy to grow: Strawberries embody the contradictions of...
Julie Guthman, University of California, Santa Cruz
Agricultural abundance is a pillar of the California dream. In 2016 the state turned out more than US$45...
Post-fire mudslide problems aren’t new and likely to get worse
Lee MacDonald, Colorado State University
Several weeks after a series of wildfires blackened nearly 500 square miles in Southern California, a large winter storm rolled...
Abortion freedom of speech battle heading to the Supreme Court
Robert A. Sedler, Wayne State University
Whether you’re for abortion or against – can the state force you to say anything about it? What about...
Literature has long been sounding the alarm about sexual violence in...
Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver
Recent revelations about Hollywood’s culture of sexual harassment and violence might come as a surprise to many Americans.
After all,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Formula 1 racing shows the hard part of reaching net‑zero carbon...
Caitlin Grady, George Washington University and Sachi Nandurkar, George Washington University
Formula 1 auto racing is one of the...
