Gavin Newsom, the Democrat Governor of California, has passed the state’s largest reproductive freedom bills and enshrined protections for LGBTQ+ youth in school. Charlie Kirk is a conservative influencer who is staunchly against LGBTQ+ rights and the separation of church and state. The two sat down in early March on Newsom’s podcast, “This Is Gavin […]
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Education Is Not The Great Equalizer
We have all been fed a lie: “Education is the great equalizer.” That line dominates the public discourse on K-12 public education. However, it’s certainly not true in the Bay Area nor in California. Piedmont High School and Oakland High School are less than 3 miles apart. Yet the academic performance of their students couldn’t […]
How to Make Recall Elections Fair
Welp. That was over quickly. Within an hour of the polls closing at 8 PM PT on September 14, the recall race was already called for Governor Newsom. Governor Gavin Newsom’s victory was basically the same as his 2018 landslide (both 61.9%). The recall race has been estimated by Sonoma State University Professor David McCuan […]
CA Isn’t Ready to Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant— But It Can’t Stay Open
On the first of February, 79 top energy experts signed an open letter to Governor Gavin Newsom, urging him to halt the decommission of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, California’s very last operational source of nuclear power. The group behind this letter includes dozens of prominent energy executives, professors from Berkeley, MIT, Stanford and more, […]
California Fires: Mismanagement or Climate Change?
Simultaneous with the nationwide battle against the Coronavirus pandemic, the widespread marches and riots against racial oppression, and the heated campaigning for an upcoming presidential election, California is facing an unprecedented wildfire season that won’t seem to end. Since the beginning of the year, there have been over 8,100 wildfires that have burned 3.7 million […]