Ironically, the culinary movement fomented during the Reagan Revolution may have contributed to the rise of MAGA. Trump’s lionization of McDonald’s is part of a larger conservative meme that casts Democrats as arugula-loving elites completely out of touch with average Joes.

If Trump's plans for mass deportations penetrate California's heartland, it almost surely would decimate the workforce farmers rely on to plant and harvest their crops. So, why aren't farmers worried?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was a key figure in protests over California vaccine laws. He could set U.S. health policy in the Trump administration.

In the first Trump administration, California passed a "Sanctuary State" law that, with some exceptions, prohibited local law enforcement from automatically transferring people to federal immigration authorities.

Relying on federal aid in emergency isn’t “a red or blue issue. That is an American issue,” says one elected official.

Ann O’Leary, who once served as Gov. Gavin Newsom’s chief of staff, says her former boss’ effort to “Trump-proof” California is more than just a PR stunt.

California sought to raise voter turnout by passing vote by mail, which election officials say slows the ballot counting process.

Population growth began to slow in the late 1990s, thanks largely to out-migration of Southern California aerospace workers and their families as defense spending dried up after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Some regions "don't feel like they're fully engaged in the prosperity that is the state of California," the governor admitted.

Vice President Kamala Harris is searching for next steps in her political career after losing the election, according to some former aides and allies of Harris.

Goldstein recounts an early triumph of California food rebels in 1983. Queen Elizabeth II was here for a state visit, and the Reagans hosted her at a gala dinner in San Francisco. The menu was über California cuisine: salmon poached in zinfandel, lamb salad with lentils, radicchio, enoki mushrooms, etc.