Connecting California Columnist and Editor, Zócalo Public Square, Fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden ...

Ballots are arriving in mailboxes across Santa Barbara County right now, and with them comes one of the most important decisions Californians will make this year: Whether to approve Proposition 50 and ...

SAN DIEGO — Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) thinks Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) ambitious plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections is a lesson in political greed.

Deliberative democracy is now officially entangled in state bureaucracy. And that's good news. Last year, all 247,000 of California's state government workers gained access to a new digital democracy ...

Learn how California can protect its democracy with voting reforms, language access and combating disinformation amid ongoing electoral challenges. Getty Images With the threats facing our democracy ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...