California's redistricting measure: Updates and analysis

Listen to Mariel Garza and Jon Regardie talk about how money is shaping the L.A. city and governor's races in 2026

Meg Whitman couldn't beat Jerry Brown. Rick Caruso lost to Karen Bass. In recent years, the size of one’s war chest didn’t predict the outcomes of

By Mariel Garza

/ 28 Jan 2026

Listen to Mariel Garza and Jon Regardie talk about how money is shaping the L.A. city and governor's races in 2026

Money can't buy you love — or an election in L.A. and California

Just ask Rick Caruso and Meg Whitman. In many city and state elections, the candidate who had the most amount of campaign cash still lost.

By Jon Regardie

/ 27 Jan 2026

Money can't buy you love — or an election in L.A. and California

A head-scratching move by Rick Caruso

The mall developer did pretty well in his first match against L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, so why bow out when she’s vulnerable?

By Mariel Garza

/ 20 Jan 2026

A wealth tax that would work

Healthcare in California faces a fiscal emergency thanks to Trump's tax cuts for the most well-off Americans. Robert Reich says the wealth tax initiative would address that and help rein in the power of the obscenely rich.

By Robert Reich

/ 16 Jan 2026

Tech billionaires threaten to flee California — again

It’s a go-to move any time they don't like a law or policy. This time it's a proposed wealth tax that hasn't even been approved for the state ballot.

By Gil Duran

/ 16 Jan 2026

Tech billionaires threaten to flee California — again

California's top-two primary means a Republican could be the next governor

But it is unlikely — and certainly no reason to dump a system that, if replicated in all states, would mean no member of Congress would ever have to tremble in fear of being "primaried" by vengeful president.

By Mariel Garza

/ 12 Jan 2026

California's top-two primary means a Republican could be the next governor

So long to Texas' new districts. In California, Prop. 50's maps are here to stay

Sold as California's response to mid-decade redistricting in Texas, Proposition 50 doesn't actually include triggering language based on what any other state does.

By Paul Thornton

/ 18 Nov 2025

So long to Texas' new districts. In California, Prop. 50's maps are here to stay

He supported L.A. Mayor Karen Bass. Now he wants her job

Austin Beutner, a former L.A. Unified superintendent, says City Hall has come up woefully short on wildfires, homelessness, housing and affordability. Sometimes it seems the election season in California

By Mariel Garza

/ 7 Nov 2025

He supported L.A. Mayor Karen Bass. Now he wants her job

The good and the bad of Prop. 50 election night punditry

Gain power, give it away In the Sacramento Bee, Robin Epley has perhaps the most triumphalist of the immediate post-Prop. 50 commentaries I could find, but I wouldn’t call

By Paul Thornton

/ 5 Nov 2025

The good and the bad of Prop. 50 election night punditry

The Counterrevolution comes to L.A.

The happiest place in Los Angeles on election night may have been the democratic socialist party in Highland Park — and it was about so much more than Prop. 50'

By Mariel Garza

/ 5 Nov 2025

Of course Proposition 50 is a power grab

No one’s hiding it. Getting voters to approve a new congressional map is a ploy to deny Republicans control of the House and check Trump. Both sides of the

By Mariel Garza

/ 17 Oct 2025

Of course Proposition 50 is a power grab

Gavin Newsom is going low. Is this the future of Democratic campaigns?

@GavinNewsom is the personal, and very active, X account of the governor of California, a presumptive Democratic presidential candidate in 2028. And it has become quite spicy of late.

By Mariel Garza

/ 26 Aug 2025

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