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Beyond Doomism: Why Climate Progress Is Happening Without the Panic
Power Without Ideology Is Doomed
L.A.’s Air Was Once A Punchline. It Could Be Again
Iran, Hungary, Ukraine: The World Is Running on Outdated Legacy Software
How Rolling Stone shaped a social revolution … at least for a while
AI Is Humans, All the Way Down
Social Media Had Gun-Level Immunity. That Just Ended
Understanding Global Oil Shocks
The Unexplained War: Stumbling Toward World War III
The Chavez Myth Comes Apart
We Cut Off Its Oil & Attacked Its Partners; China Seems Willing to Wait...Why?
The Brief Life of Public Outrage: Why Corporate Scandals Matter—Until They Don't
The Service Fee That Sparked a National Firestorm
Hidden Cables—Global Risk
The Iran Nobody in Washington Wanted to Listen To
American Democracy Isn’t Broken… It Never Worked as Advertised
A View From Israel: A Conversation with Ambassador Michael Oren
Democracy’s Pulse Is Beating — But For How Long?
Silicon Valley Meets Outlaw Cannabis Culture
Worse Than Losing a Hockey Game: Living Next Door to the Predator
An Existential Moment for Iran
The Climate Fight Without America
What Comes Next For Iran On The Brink.
What We Lost When Diversity Became Politics
Are We All in Cults Now?
An Artist’s Insane Technique for Disturbing Times
When the Video Isn't Enough: How LA Fought Back After Rodney King—and What It Means for Minneapolis Today
The Wine Industry In Crisis
From Ocean to Bloodstream: The Truth About Plastic
Tom Freston reflects on how MTV changed our music, our culture, and even California
The Technophobia Trap: How America Lost Its Nerve in the Age of AI
Fired by Email: What It Felt Like To Be Targeted by DOGE’s Federal Purge
What If the America We Think We Live in Never Existed?
Who’s Really Building Our Tech Future?
Democracy's Punishment Problem
A Queer Rock Pioneer Remembers San Francisco’s Lost Era
Who Gets to Be Indian?
What’s Really Happening in Latino Communities
The Radicalization of Silicon Valley: Democracy Is Optional`
The Anti-Billionaire: How Patagonia's Founder Yvonne Chouinard Gave It All Away
The Assassin Next Door: Luigi Mangione and America’s Angry Young Men
Robot Gladiators and the Future of AI Combat
How Desi Arnaz Invented Modern Television and Lost Himself
Is Political Violence Built Into America’s DNA?
Where is the Literary Center of America?
Globalization and Its Discontents: How the World’s Greatest Bet Went Wrong
Education Reimagined: Building the world’s most innovative university
The Economy May Be Our Last Guardrail
Echoes of Japanese Incarceration: It Can Happen Here
How America Really Lost Control of Its Own Future
My 1998 Conversation with Jane Goodall
California's Crown Jewel Has a Dark Secret: The Battle to Break Apple's Monopoly
Propaganda 2025: Lies, All The Way Down
Bruce Lee and the emergence of Asian American pride
Empire of Secrets: Robert Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine’s Dark Legacy
An Autopsy of the Left
America’s Most Expensive Lie: Why Tariffs Are Killing What They Claim to Save
Privilege and Vulnerability for the Sons of the Elite
How One San Francisco Murder Exposed Silicon Valley's Road to MAGA
China's Moment: How History and Family Shapes Today's Superpower
Trump, Putin, Epstein: It’s Not a Hoax
Teaching Democracy in the Age of Data
When Thinking Stops, Evil Spreads: The Danger in Our Everyday Compliance (Rerun)
Freedom, Community, Jerry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead
Still in the Fight: Veteran Journalists on the Perils of Reporting the World
How Zoning Controls Everything
From Puberty to Politics: How Judy Blume Inspired a Progressive Generation
How Trade is Impacting America’s busiest port
The Ghost in the Machine: How William F. Buckley Birthed Today’s Extreme Right
Has NPR Passed Its Sell-By Date?
Debate Doesn’t Matter
How AI Safety Birthed a Killing Spree
Apple and China: The Hidden Story Behind Every iPhone in Your Pocket
Rethinking Gun Violence: Beyond Politics to Human Behavior
Culture Eats Policy: The Hidden Architecture of Government Failure
Israel’s ‘Dirty Harry Moment’
Tehrangeles: A Diaspora, A Mayor, A Homeland Reimagined
Small Drones, Big Consequences: The Future of Asymmetric Warfare
How Black Capitalists Are Rewriting the Rules of Wealth Creation
The American Economy: Coasting on Fumes but Built to Last: A conversation with Noah Smith
Demonstrations, Deportations, and Downtown LA"
Zero Sum: How Putin Turned Capitalism into Russian Roulette
The China Paradox That Will Define the 21st Century
Hollywood: when art, commerce, and family once danced together
The Human Cost of Migration
When Thinking Stops, Evil Spreads: The Danger in Our Everyday Compliance
Dismantling the Global Order That America Created
Is the California Dream Over?
The Coalition Behind Democracy’s Decline
The "Golden Dome" Will Never Happen
Joan Didion’s early warning about America’s entertainment politics
Fake Alzheimer's Research
Execution Denied
Why America Can’t Do Big Things
Does Hollywood Have A Next Act?
Humor as our Democratic Lifeline
Is China On Borrowed Time?
Eminent Jews
California's high-stakes dance amid trade and tech turmoil
Could Trump Buy His Own Private Army?
O Canada, Our Home Is Under Threat…
Joan Didion’s cool detachment and Eve Babitz’s raw sensuality
Democracy vs. Constitution
Coastal Access
Moving Nowhere Fast: How Housing Froze the American Dream
Robber Barons 2.0: Trump, Musk, and America’s New Gilded Age
All Bets Are On
Warring Factions In The Democratic Party: The Political Strategists Who Set the Stage
America’s Cultural Revolution From Self-Awareness to Self-Righteousness
Beyond Pawns and Kings: A Map of the Global Chessboard
Taking Psychiatry to the Streets
Inside The Echo Machine with David Pakman
The Missile Defense Mirage
Neil Shubin On the Value of Earth's Frozen Edges
Paper Tiger, Hidden Fragility: The Truth Behind China’s Rise
A Weather Event With Fire Embedded
What Brand Cult Are You a Member Of?
More Partisan Politics, Please
In a World of Chaos, Design Matters Even More
Can Algorithms and Empathy Coexist?
David Ulin finds hope in a burning city
When the Hydrants Ran Dry in Los Angeles
The Internet’s Librarian
Mike Davis Saw It All Coming
Paws for Thought: A Rescue Revolution
Red vs. Blue America: Federalism in the Fight Against Autocracy
Don't Build, Rebuild
Reagan: His Life and Legend' - How Far Today's GOP Has Strayed from the Gipper
The Comfort of Our False Beliefs: Why We Crave Misinformation
The End of Weird: Austin's Makeover
Wall Street's Glass Ceiling Cracked, Long Before Washington's: Paulina Bren Explains
Dismantling Democracy Is the Point
Women Voters and the Firewall That Wasn’t
An American Reckoning - Jonathan Alter confronts Trump and Democracy
Can America Survive Its Own Constitution? The Tyranny of the Minority
Vigilante Nation: The New Face of American Power
The myth of the "Latino vote"
Our Deep Polarization Has Now Taken Over Our Most Local Politics
January 6 As You’ve Never Seen It Before: The ‘Fight Like Hell’ Documentary
The Existential Threat of ‘Ungoverning’
Turning the Page: Steve Wasserman's Life in American Letters
Why the Nuts and Bolts of Political Organizing Still Matter
Alexander Payne on the 20th Anniversary of His Film SIDEWAYS
Mobile Voting Is Coming
Pride and Shame: Arlie Hochschild's Cultural Bilingualism Decodes Rural America
AI’s Dirty Secret: Sweatshops, Carbon, and the Race to the Bottom
The Transformative Art of Listening: A conversation with Elizabeth Rosner
Red Counties, White Sheriffs: How They Are Reshaping the US Political Landscape
Carving Up America: The Meatpacking Industry's Political Divide
The Days After November 5th Could be More Consequential Than The Entire Campaign
The 9/11 Generation: How Past Trauma Shapes Today’s Young Voters
Judge David Tatel Redefines Judicial Vision
Supreme Court’s Immunity Gift to Trump: The Ghosts of Nixon, Bork, and Scalia
Can Pickleball Change our Prisons?
The Financial World’s Untamed Beast
Bill Gates Is Patient Zero for Billionaires
The Federalism and Originalism Fallacy: Rediscovering America's True Constitutional Heritage
Tech goes to war
Why Democracy Might Be Its Own Worst Enemy: The Fatal Flaw in Our System
On the Front Lines of the Homelessness Crisis
From Puberty to Politics: How Judy Blume Inspired a Progressive Generation
Beyond GDP: Redefining Economic Success by Measuring What Really Matters
The Couch vs. The Ballot Box: The Struggle for Civic Participation
How the Art World Deals With Protests and Politics
Does California Need More Power and Influence?
They Are Coming for Our Schools
Weathering the Storm: A TV Meteorologist’s Fight for Facts in a Post-Truth Era
Bankruptcy laws are a mess
One Week in 1999 that Set Up Today's Politics
The Supreme Court Continues to Be the Leading Obstacle to the Right to Vote
Nicholas Kristof and Chasing Hope
The French Connection: The Far Right’s Rise and Its Global Implications
The changing social and political contours of divorce
What were you doing when you were 22?
The Little Newsroom That Could: A Conversation With Ken Doctor
The Conservative Futurist: A Conversation with James Pethokoukis
"The Guarantee": Natalie Foster's Vision for Reimagining the Social Contract and Building an Inclusive Economy
An Election Prophecy: How 13 Keys Unlock Presidential Election Outcomes: A Conversation With Allan Lichtman
Would We Be Better Off With a Whole New System of Governance: American Democracy Reimagined
The Looming Threats to the 2024 Election: Anatomy of an Election Meltdown
Rewiring Our Brains: The Alarming Neurological Consequences of Climate Change
The Solution to Our Housing Problems May be Right Next Door: My conversation with Max Podemski
A Journey into the "Filterworld" That Directs Us
White Rural Rage Is Not Going Away
America's Climate Warzones: Stories from the Frontlines
The Waltham Murders, the Boston Marathon Bombing, and the Search for Truth, 11 Years Later.
What if Pete Rose gambled today?
Silicon Soldiers: The Military-Technology Complex
The Freaks Came Out to Write
Gangs, Governance, and Grief: Haiti’s Harrowing Reality
America Last: The Right's Enduring Romance With Dictators
Unmasking the Disinformation Playbook with Barbara McQuade
Marriage is Now a Luxury Good
Matthias Gafni gives voice to the lost souls of San Francisco
Navigating Chaos: Insights on a World at War
Sarah Swanbeck and Erin Heys decode millennials and Gen Z
Reclaiming Populism: It’s Not What We Think It Is
The Distant Revolution: Russia’s Growing Exiles Challenge Putin’s Rule
Laura Pappano: The Political Battles inside America's Public Schools
Roger Rapoport is still searching for Patty Hearst —50 years later
Is the Abortion Battle the New Foundation for Modern Political Activism?
Media Crack-up 2024: A Conversation with Project Censored's Mickey Huff
From Anxiety to Action: Young Floridians Transforming Politics
Digital Titans and the Echoes of the Gilded Age
MAGA Unraveled: An Insider’s Perspective on Right-Wing America
The Last Candidate of the GOP
‘Fox News’ Is Not News
Daniel Sokatch: A Pivotal Figure in Modern Jewish Dialogue and Israeli Affair is Redefining Jewish Advocacy
Conor Friedersdorf: D.E.I. vs. free speech at California colleges
‘Vibes vs. Data’: Unpacking the US Economy
John King's portal to San Francisco and urban design
Unmasking the Elephant
Jonathan Taplin vs. the tech billionaires
From Poverty to Empowerment: The Rise of the Global Middle Class
Robert Sapolsky and our Illusion of free will
Don’t Shoot the Messenger: The Methods and Power of Pollsters
A Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson
From Buy to Cell: The Journey of SBF
The Shifting Sands of the Middle East: What’s Next for Israel, Hamas, and Iran?
Navigating the New Geopolitics: A Conversation with Sam Ramani
Carl Safina on Nature, Philosophy, and Unexpected Teachers
Can America Survive Its Own Constitution? The Tyranny of the Minority
The Invisible Frontlines: Israel’s Secret War Against a Nuclear Iran
The Wisdom of Survivors: Overcoming Global Trauma
When the Game Was War: The 1987-88 NBA Season: My Conversation with Rich Cohn
Power Play: How Just 12 People Control America’s Economic Destiny: A conversation with John Coates
Living History: A Conversation with Drew Gilpin Faust on the Pivotal Moments That Shaped Her and All of Us
Can Boomers Ever Age Out Gracefully? A Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Leipzig
What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life: A Conversation with Sally Jenkins
What We Imagine "Out There" Reflects How We See Each Other
Why the Fentanyl Crisis Calls for a New War On Drugs
Oppenheimer is Not The First Movie About the Deveopment of the Atom Bomb...The First One Was a Bomb
How Women Changed Journalism: A conversation with Brooke Kroeger
AI May Tell Us More About the Cosmos Than Telescopes: A Conversation with Andrew Pontzen
How the Memory of the ’60s Civil Rights Era Is Being Co-Opted
Space: It’s Not Just for Governments Anymore: A conversation with Ashley Vance
Living and Dying by the Myth of Rugged Individualism: A Conversation with Alissa Quart
Kevin Kelly on Old Wisdom and New Progress
Are We Creating the Species That Will Replace Us?
Flying Green, Climate Justice, and Higher Prices
The Era of Social Media Journalism Is Over: A Conversation with Ben Smith
A Conversation with Hernan Diaz about his Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel "Trust"
The Value of Killing Time: A Conversation with Sheila Liming
Myth, Religion, Fascism… The Recipe for Right-Wing Politics
Cyber Weapons and a New Arms Race… Without Firing a Shot
Science Is Simply Curiosity Writ Large: A conversation with Dr. Suzy Sheehy
Spies in Hollywood: A conversation with Jonathan Gill
How the Police Became Untouchable: A conversation with Joanna Schwartz
A Real Life "Succession" Drama: The Story of Sumner and Shari Redstone
Why Doesn’t Our Technology Live Up to Our Science Fiction?
We Have No Democracy Without Good Citizens: My conversation with Richard Haass
We Each Have the Personal Answer to Our Larger Divisions: A Conversation with Pico Iyer
Citizenship Is Just A Commodity: A Conversation with Atossa Abrahamian
In Spite of Many Problem, Flying is Safer Than Ever...Why?: A conversation with John Nance
Another New Year, and More Promises to Sweat: A conversation with Bill Hayes
Art vs. Cable News: My Conversation with Amy Herman
How Much HBO Did You Watch This Holiday Break? A conversation with Felix Gillette
How Governance Was Saved During the Trump Years: A Conversation with David Rothkopf
The New Age of DNA Investigation: A Conversation with Edward Humes
Presidential Words Matter: My Conversation with Cody Keenan
The Life and Death of Anthony Bourdain: A Conversation with Charles Leerhsen
When Legendary CEOs Can't Find a Successor: A Conversation with William Cohan
War As A Nonviolent Struggle: A conversation with Thomas Ricks
Democracy Will Likely Be Voted Out on Tuesday: A Conversation With Robert Draper
Of Boys and Men: A Conversation with Richard V. Reeves
Where Immigration and Education Come Together: A Conversation with Jessica Lander
How The Universe Works and Why It Matters: A Conversation with Sean Carroll
We Live in a Golden Age of Ignorance: A conversation with Andy Borowitz
Harvard Is Once Again The Center of Psychedelics: A Conversation with Patrick Schmidt
How Did The Pandemic Change Us? A Conversation with Katie Hafner
Why Harvey Weinstein Should Matter: A Conversation with Ken Auletta
The Trump Roster of Toadies: A conversation with Mark Leibovich
Negotiation for Fun and Profit: A Conversation with Rich Cohen
Your Dreams Are Not What You Think
David Gergen on How Great Leaders are Made
Why Anxiety is Good for You!
A Whistleblower Stands Up To China: A Conversation with Ashley Yablon
A Nostalgia For the Journalism of Old: A Conversation with Brian Karem
Tell Me A Story: A Conversation with Frank Rose
How Global Migration is Actually Moving the World Forward: My conversation with Parag Kahanna
How Chinese Language is the Core of its Culture: A Conversation with Jing Tsu
A Love Letter to Spy-craft: A Conversation With Retired CIA Officer Douglas London
Politics Without Celebrity - Kati Marton’s The Chancellor
January 6th Was a Rallying Point For White Hot Hate
How Fame, Fortune and Education Ended Objective Journalism: A conversation with Batya Ungar-Sargon
The Modern Era of Television Begins with HBO: A Conversation with James Andrew Miller
The Shattering: America in the 1960‘s: A Conversation with Kevin Boyle
Has the Death of Faith Made Us More Tribal?
The Rise and Fall of the NRA and What it‘s Cost Us: A Conversation with Tim Mak
A Story of What Went Right in the Battle Agaisnt COVID - Gregory Zuckerman tells the story of how we got the shot that saved the world
How the Index Fund Changed Finance and Why It‘s Still So Powerful Today
Dirty, but Essential Work: A Conversation with Eyal Press
Looking for America: My Conversation with Evan Osnos
What Is The Future of Transportation? Hint...It‘s Not A Better Car
No Cell Service, No Technology and Electrosensitives Everywhere: Stephen Kurczy Talks about ”The Quiet Zone”
As You Look At The Emmys, Remember That It Is Only Streaming and Entertainment That is Bringing the World Together
The Myth of ”Nobody Saw it Coming”
Democracy Dies In The Chaos of Competing Truths: A Conversation with Robert M. Smith
America Is No Longer A Serious Nation: My conversation with Tom Nichols:
Roger Bennett Teaches Us About Soccer AND About America
The Ultimate Corporate Delusion: The Story of WeWork
Trump's Final Days: My conversation with Carol Leonnig
A Car for the Ages: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings - A conversation with Earl Swift
What AI Really Is, Whose Making It Happen and What It Means For The Future: My conversation with Cade Metz
How We Got To Globalization Today: A Conversation with Jeffrey Garten
A Constitution of Knowledge: A Conversation with Jonathan Rauch
We Are Our Information: A conversation with Caleb Scharf
Amazon, Bezos and a Global Empire
Our New Addiction to Outrage: The American Psychosis
Reasons for Hope in Rural America: A Conversation with Gigi Georges
A Conversation with Chris Matthews:
The Secret Service and its Time of Reckoning: A conversation with Carol Leonnig
What Happened In Wuhan? Why the Lab Leak Theory Has Gained Traction
Campaigns Matter: A conversation with Edward-Isaac Dovere
With The American Experiment on the Precipice, It's Good To Know Our Shared Origin Story: A Conversation with Historian Patrick O'Donnell
Why New York is New York
The Notorious Maxwells
We Need Uniters, Not Dividers: A Conversation with Tim Shriver
How the Rich Really Live and Why We All Should Care
A Time When Oscar Winning Movies Really Mattered: The Making of Midnight Cowboy
The Founding Mothers of NPR
Toxic Masculinity In An Oil Boomtown
Elon Musk IS Leading Us Into The Future
Imagining the Next World War : 2034
Come Fly With Me: The World of The Pan Am Stewardess Before "Me Too"
The Royals Have Outlived Their Value: Gilded Lives at the Expense of the British People
Frida Kahlo and the Timelessness of Her Work and Her Ideas
Coffee, Globalization and and Why We Care About A Hill of Beans
Rethink Everything You Know About Policing
Where Is The Information We Have Lost In Data
Mike Nichols: A Life
Why The Exploration Of Space Should Still Matter
Are You A Broker, Expansionist or Convener? It Will Tell How the Pandemic Impacted You
Armed Members of Congress. Bloodshed in the Capitol. Talk of Secession. We've Seen It Before
The Hispanic Republican Vote
It's Time For America to Create a New Origin Story
Understanding Goodfellas and the Trump Henchman
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Broke is the definition of every aspect of American medicine today
The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
The Saudi Enigma - How Will Biden Deal With It?
Does America Need to Find Its First Principles? A conversation with Tom Ricks
A Dolly Parton Moment
The Collapse of America's Founding Mythology
Biden..We Hardly Knew Ye
Up Close and Personal with Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown
Is Socialism Coming To America?
Are We So Divided that Secession Is The Only Answer?
Jimmy Carter: A Good and Decent Presidency
Is White Collar Corruption the New Normal?
The Reverend Michael B. Curry: Advice for Times Like This Week/Month/Year
Should Donald Trump Make Us Rethink the Reagan Legacy For the Worse?
Science and Politics are Now Linked
The Curse of the US/Britain Special Relationship
A Conversation with Brian Stelter
A Spouse Also Runs: A Conversation with Chasten Buttigieg
Remember When Diplomacy and the Arts Once Mattered?
McCarthy to Cohn to Trump: A conversation with Larry Tye
Gail Sheehy: In Memoriam
Only The Best People: Why The Best and The Brightest Sometimes Aren't
Why Are Millennials Feeling Left Behind?
Nixon and The Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
Pete Hamill in His Own Words...and Voice
Marilyn
Why Are White Evangelicals Primed For Trump’s Fear-Mongering?
Can Local Journalism Rewire Democracy?
Do We Have The Strength and Wisdom to BEGIN AGAIN?
The High Cost of Free Speech
Christopher Dickey: A Remembrance
The Unexpected Role of Feminism in Mass Incarceration
Without Newt there is no Trump: How we Got Here.
Is It 1968 All Over Again?
The Microbiome is Revolutionizing Medicine and Yes, Probiotics Matter
The Genetic Superiority of Women
Lincoln Almost Never Made It To The White House
Maybe There Were Some Smart People in Oklahoma
Accepting Science is Actually a Test of Character
It's Economic Dignity, Stupid
Not Your Father's CIA
It Is A Small World After All
A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
Where Did 24/7 News Come From?
The Truth About America's "Deep State"
Religious Nationalism and the Reopening of America
China and Its Ongoing Industrial Espionage
"When Someone Tells You Who They Are, Believe Them"
Our Evolution Is A Graveyard of Ancient Viruses.
When We Come Back, Every Business Could Be A Startup: Here Are Some Rules
A Look At What Real Leadership Skills Might Look Like
Can Journalism Be Saved: A Conversation with Nicholas Lemann
David Plouffe on Beating Donald Trump
A Bank Behind Every Crime: Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
When Will The Boomers Leave the Stage?
Hong Kong on the Brink
You Say You Want A Revolution
Nicholas Kristoff & Sheryl WuDunn: Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
Can We Distance Ourselves From the Sins of Our Parents? A Conversation with the Daughter of George Wallace
If You Spend Hours Watching Cable News, You Are Just A Political Hobbyist
How Can We Avoid A New Generation of Brett Kavanaughs and Harvey Weinsteins
Australia's Climate Apocalypse: Up Close and Personal
Silicon Valley and the Quest for Immortality
Saving America From Trump, and Democrats From Themselves
It's Ok To Compromise and Maybe Even to Sellout Sometimes
Human Nature Always Finds A Way
Can the Generational Divide Lead Us Out Of Division?
Do You Need Further Reminders that This Is Not Your Father's Workplace
Why Most Health Care is Barking Up the Wrong Tree
William Greider R.I.P.
Something to Think About As You Eat that Holiday Steak........
Can America's Military Ever Recover?
From Useful Idiot to Working Asset
The Model For Taking It To The Streets
Why Quantum Mechanics Matter and Why You Should Care: A Conversation with Sean Carroll
What Happens to Ancestry Testing DNA?
The Best and the Brightest of America's Diplomats
Kickstarting a Better World
Fake is Sometimes Real
Only Whistleblowers Can Save Democracy
Why is Science Under Assault?
The Battle of Mosul - The Last Great Battle Against Isis
He is a Being Made of Television
The Science of Kindness Is Real
Why Health Care Is Broken, and How to Fix It...Hint..Medicare for All is Not the Answer
Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law: A conversation with James B. Stewart
Harold Bloom 1930 - 2019
A Conversation with the Recipients of This Years Nobel Prize in economics: Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
The End of America's Cultural Hegemony
The Tyranny of Virtue: Political Correctness Run Amuck on Our Campuses
Just Who is Brett Kavanaugh?
Why Understanding Silicon Valley History is Necessary To Deal With Today's Tech Issues
Trump's War on the FBI
We are All Cult Members Now!
Is Clothing the New Plastic?
The CIA in the Post 9/11 World
A 1998 conversation with Cokie Roberts
She Said
Charles and David Koch Are Not Who You Think They Are!
The Other Scandal: The College Dropout Scandal
How Women are Changing American Politics
Trump Even Screws Up Conspiracy Theories
To Live and Work In Hollywood
The GOP's Strategy To Embrace Racism
The Most Heinous Serial Killer You've Never Heard Of
A 2019 Way To Look At and Talk To Kids About Race
20 Years Ago Today, the Death of JFK, Jr., Extinguished the Last Flames of Camelot
The Welfare Queen and Political Mythology
The False Mythology of Roger Ailes
The Loudest Voice in the Room
War Today: We Pay and They Serve
Cities Represent the Ultimate Achievement of Mankind
Professor Ed Hess talks about Saving Capitalism
Imagine If We All Could Have Esther Wojcicki As A Parent
We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men: David Maraniss and "A Good American Family"
A Multi-Cultural Society, An Elite Senate, Good and Bad Leaders: How It All Went So Wrong
Fear, Loathing and Immigration: The Battle Was Once Much Worse
Democracies Are Not Forever...Is The US Headed Down The Same Path As Rome?
Outright Lies Are Posing As Today's Conspiracy Theories
The Klan and White Supremacy...Then and Now
We'll Be OK If We Can Make It to 2040
If Democracy Requires Critical Thinking, Are We Doomed?
According to the World Health Organization, Superbugs are a Greater Health Threat Than Climate Change
The Remembered Past vs. The Real Past
Why Coders Matter and Why They Control Our Future
Who We Connect With Impacts Who We Become, and Who We Become Impacts Who We Connect With
The Brave New World of Immunotherapy
Should We Negotiate With Hostage Takers?
Brave, Not Perfect
How Our Lives Are Being Run By Algorithms: From the 737 to Our Daily Commute
Facebook and Zuckerberg Not Only Screwed Up Reality..They Even Screwed Up Virtual Reality: The Story of Palmer Luckey and Oculus
How Our Republic Collapsed and How it Might Be Saved
A Look at Everything that Ivanka Trump Will Never Understand About Working People in America
The History of our Future: A Conversation with Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler
The Future is Asian
Patriarchy in the Me Too Era: A conversation with Carol Gilligan
When Did We Start This "Division Thing?"
What If The Solution to Fix Democracy is Actually Less Democracy
Why We Need Special Prosecutors....It's Not For Harassment
Philip Johnson and the Politics of Architecture, the Architecture of Politics
Is This The End of Shopping?
Black Feminist Politics
The Wives of the Vietnam Era: What We Learned and What's Different Today
Housing, Housing, Housing
Disruption, Terrorism, Climate Change...Just Some of the Risk Today's Corporations Face
The Pentagon's $21 Trillion Con Game
San Francisco, Silicon Valley and the Future of Cities
We All Have A Role To Play In the Biggest Story of 2019
With Each New Year, Do We Loose A Little of What Makes Us Human?
The Business of Punishment
Is it Possible to Believe in Nationalism and Think Globally at the Same Time?
What Might Gonzo Journalism Look Like Today? A Look At Hunter S. Thompson vs. Nixon
Bribery, Kickbacks and Corruption: Why It Matters
Democracies Are Not Forever...Are We Headed Down the Same Path As Rome?
The Week Politics Went Tabloid: A Conversation with Matt Bai about Gary Hart and THE FRONT RUNNER
California is Burning - Here's Why
Jamal Khashoggi's Secret Interview
Why Capitalism Matters and Why We Need to Protect It
History in Plain Sight: WWI and the Unknown Soldiers
Notes On Hope from Anne Lamott
Greg Sargent looks at Thunderdome Politics in the Age of Trump
The Forgotten and The Angry: A Search for the Trump Voter
Reagan Would Be Such An Improvement Today
Democracy, Rebellion and Revolution: Pick Two
Men on the Sidelines of American Life
When They Take Away Your Vote, Who Ya Gonna Call?
The Last Time "Nationalism" Was Embraced...Hitler and his American Friends
Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy
Is America Now A Fascist Country?
Marvin Kalb on The New McCarthyism and the Threat to Democracy
The Geopolitical Downsides of Fracking Are Downright Scary
Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth.
Why Adam Smith Still Matters, And What We Have Not Understood
Tight and Loose Explains the World
The Myth We Still Tell About the Fall of Lehman Bros.
The Global Elite's Effort to Change the World
The Browns of California
Voter Suppression 101
17 Years in Afghanistan....What Have We Accomplished?
Make A Decision!
Why DNA Kits May Not Really Tell Us Who We Are
Parenthood in an Age of Fear
A Conversation with John McCain
Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
Are Americans Afraid of Optimism?
The Kids Are All Right
The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump
Even Power Has Been Subject to Change. Here's How
When Does No Drama Make For A Better Show and a Better Government?
The Iran Nuclear Deal and The View from Tehran
The Mouth That Roared - How Rush Limbaugh Changed America
Our Crises of Connection - Why We Need to Gather Now, More Than Even
Is Hope or Change Ever Possible After Trump?
GDP = GREATLY DECEPTIVE PROSPERITY
Why Teams Are The New Normal
PUTIN’S INDECENT PROPOSAL
Lazy Thinking, Intellectual Cowardice and Safe Spaces On Today's College Campus
Men Behaving, Or How To Prevent More Trump Supporters In The Future
Today's Struggle With Russia Is More Than Cold War 2.0
What's the Matter With America?
Silicon Valley: The Origin Story...Live As It Happened
Driven to Succeed...A Conversation with Dr. Ned Hallowell
Nationalism and Culture Need Not be A Zero Sum Game
THE AGE OF POLITICAL PERSUASION IS OVER To Attract the Next Generation, Politics Must Be About Advocacy, Organization, and Winning
Groucho Was Right!
Freedom of the Press and Freedom From Fake News
Can Something That's Popular, Still Be Creative and Good?
A Dinner in Camelot: How Far We Have Fallen
The Ultimate Silicon Valley Scam
Things Can Always Get Worse in America...And They Often Have
The Country's Collapsing...and the Ratings are Great
Conversations with Anthony Bourdain
Suicide Among The Best And The Brightest: Portraits of Resilience
Bobby Kennedy May Have Been The Last Genuine Progressive
The American Tailspin: Can We Ever Pull Up?
Humans at Our Best and Worst
Railroads and Highways and Ports, Oh My
Robin
We Think It's Stormy Now.....1968 Was Far Worse....And We Survived
If Gina Haspel is confirmed, will CIA torture begin anew?
The Moral Horror of Our Times
Moore's Law Does Not Apply To Relationships
Globalization and its Discontents
Freedom, Liberty & America...A Look Back
Dear Madam President
The Fragility of Hope
Why We Have More Time to Have No Time
Immigration and the False Lure of the American Dream
An Important Day In The Life of Robert F. Kennedy
The 75-Year-Old Book That Drives Our Politics Today
The Internet Is Killing Democracy Facebook Is the Shiny Object, but the Danger Is Much Larger
Neuroscience is The New Moneyball
Why Tech May Usher in The Universal Basic Income, and Why It's Really Pro Business
From The Crusades To The Holocaust: Why History and Love Stories Matter
Tribes May Be Killing Our Politics, But They May Be The Cure for Depression
What Maxed Out Political Corruption Looks Like
Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It...Or Why Is Everything So Damn Complex?
The Israel of 1948 is Over: A conversation with Avraham Burg
The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
Why Economic Inequality Can Take Down Our Republic
Growing Up Muslim: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys.
Can The Behavior of School Shooters Be Profiled and Shootings Averted?
Timothy Leary and Richard Nixon, Together Again
They Once Made America Great...But What Did Factories Really Represent? : A conversation with Joshua Freeman
#MeToo in China
Maybe You Are Doing Everything Wrong At Work
Political Tribes: A Conversation with Amy Chua
Who Was Edward Lansdale, and Why It Matters: A Conversation with Max Boot
Who Owns Your Thoughts?
TRUTH DECAY: The Diminishing Role of Facts in Public Life
Because Capitalism Works: A Conversation with William Rempel
The Internet Needs To Grow Up: A Conversation with Andrew Keen
Deutsche Bank: Where The Dots Of Russiagate Connect
A Model For The Power of Local Agriculture
A President Who Really Got Things Done: A conversation with Joshua Zeitz
Why Art and Artists Matter...Now More Than Ever: A Conversation with Jonathan Santlofer
The Network vs. The Despot: A Conversation with Niall Ferguson
Timing is Everything! A conversation with Daniel Pink
Does Political Organizing Still Matter? A talk with Gordon Whitman
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Understanding the Panama Papers
Not Your Father's Non-Profit: A conversation with Kathleen Kelly Janus
"Things Won't Work Out By Themselves" A Conversation with Richard Haass
The Daniel Ellsberg Story You Won't See In THE POST
Trump/Russia from 30,000 Feet
This Man Could Have Prevented 9/11
Espionage 101: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities
Where Is Your Money Sleeping?
A Look At What A Real President Was Like
Our Collective Search for Meaning And What Happens If We Can't Find It
Is the Keyboard The New F15?
Sleep...It's Not Just For Wimps Anymore
The World Will Never Be The Same After AI
The Joys of Refugees
Joan Didion: The Center Cannot Hold
Chris Matthews on Bobby Kennedy
The Refugee Crisis and the Failure of Humanity
Is Music Just an Escape or an Inescapable Part of Life?
"Stoking the Star Maker Machinery"
The New Power of Women at Work
These are the Guy Who Are Changing the World
The Humanity That's Missing From Our Health Care Debate
How Real Is The Prospect of This Being the Asian Century?
It Is Happening Here
Microdosing...Maybe the Answer to the Next Four Years....It Was the Answer for Ayelet Waldman
Not Carnage, but Hope and Hard Work
Scenes From a Marriage
It Did Happen Here
Jane Jacobs Understood that Cities Have Always Reflected The Best of Us
Why Cities Matter...Today More Than Ever
We could use her comedy perspective today!
Why So Many Homeless Families in America?
Without The Rocket Girls, There Would Be No Hidden Figures
How Parents Must Raise A Generation That Will Save Us
Spy vs. Spy...Then and Now
What We Can Learn from War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
Understanding The Forces That Are Shaping the World
The Nordic Model and Why It Works
We'll always have sex?
Imagine If Wonder Could Replace Fear
In The Cloud, No One Can Hear You Think
Can Entrepreneurship Save the World?
Some of Us Want To Go To Canada...Elon Musk Wants To Go To Mars
Why Presidential Appointees Matter
Using Design Thinking for Life
Why the Growing Gap Between Business and the Public Hurts Both
Scenes from a McMarriage
What We Can Learn From Looking At Economic Interests That Crossed the Battle Lines During the Last Civil War
Why the Isis rhetoric to restore the Caliphate is exactly like Trump wanting to Make America Great Again.
Every Single Aspect of Today's Immigration Debate, We've Heard Before
Why aren't we having this conversation about Medicare and Healthcare?
What Can History Teach Us About Our Current Political Climate
The Desert and the Cities Sing
Inequality....the great American Divide
A Contrarian View of Inequality
Are the Mexican Drug Wars a Kind of Disneyland for Teenage Boys?
Greil Marcus explains Bob Dylan
How Nice This Would Be Today!
Why Presidential Staff Matter
When Good People Get Caught Up in Racial Cleansing
Why Acceleration Equals Anger
I Wonder Who's Kissinger Now?
How Well Do We Really Know Our Parents?
Where Is The Truth We Have Lost In Information?
Religion, Politics and Culture...Oh My
Race and Medicine
If You Want To Understand America, Look At Its Food
Strangers in Their Own Land
A Stranger in a Strange Land
Rock's Darkest Day
"What Does Home Mean To You?"
Hillbilly Elegy
Parents should be Gardeners and not Carpenters
"Stoking the Star-Maker Machinery"
An American Heiress in a Time Far More Violent Than Our Own
Back to School
Why Streisand Still Matters
How the World is Getting Faster, Faster
Why the nuclear codes still really matter
From Kabul to the Oval Office
Can We Really See Russia From Any Window?
Could Star Wars Help Us Solve The World's Problems?
The War at Home
Success and Luck
Bobby Kennedy
How Digital Memory May Change What Makes Us Human
Campaign 1776 - The War That We Almost Lost
Love Wins
Who Started the War On Government?
The Future is Inevitable
Before the Play, There Was the Book
The Power of Grit
What Really Helps Children Succeed?
The Tribal Bonds of Soldiers
The end of humans
How to deal with conflict all around us
Finance vs. American Business
Power...it’s not what it used to be.
The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation
Susan Cain and The Secret Strengths of Introverts
A Surfing Life as Art
Are Riots and Insurrection on the Horizon?
Why Physics Matters! - Part II
Why Physics Matters!
Even Burglar's Prefer the City
The Silicon Valley Business Model, Circa 1920
Can You Remember When Bipartisan Public Policy Once Mattered?
How Family Trauma is Carried in Our Genes
Patient Zero and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine
One Upon A Time, Clean Air and Clean Water Were A Bipartisan Desire
Is American Unity Still Possible?
Girls & Sex
The House That Jack Buiit
When Revolutionary Violence Was Commonplace
Liberty vs. The Common Good
How enlightenment remakes us
We know more and understand less than every before
What's The Matter With Democrats?
Anne Garrels' reports from Putin Country
The Industries of the Future
Can We Thrive At Midlife?
Andy Grove R.I.P. - Our conversation from 1996
The Math Myth
Not Even Strip Clubs Are Not Safe From Corporate Homogenization
Making Sense of the Meaning of Life
Obama and the Black Community
The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives
Nation on the Take
Immigration Creates Heros
Why the Contextual aspect of Health Care can Save Lives and Money
Imagine if Bernie Sanders became a right wing intellectual? Stranger things have happened.
He Used Journalism as a Way to Understand the World
A Rare Look at America at its Best
Teens that Read....Imagine
Artist, Critic, Beauty and Truth
With every song in our pocket, why do we listen to the same stuff over and over and over again?
The New World of Medical Tourism
The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
We had all been warned!
Why we always fall for the con
The Future We Want
The GOP end game
Why Congress needs creative destruction
Why the GOP is only a local party now!
Caught Between Two Worlds
The Woman Who Are Transforming the Arab World
What does the GOP do now?
Why Political Marriages Matter
With Each Fill-Up we Support Repression, Tyrants, War and Terrorism -- The Link Between Natural Resources and Violence
Why Place Matters
The Brave New World of Health - It's not your father's healthcare
The Art of Memoir
A spotlight on child abuse at the Horace Mann School
Have we Mainstreamed Islamaphobia?
Imagine a non religious world? Imagine Peace
Why is the technology to simplify our lives, so complicated?
A great many children left behind
What did he know that his sons did not?
Sinatra at 100
How's Your Faith?
Out of Africa
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice
China's Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World's Wines
Why Lincoln would be appalled by today's income inequality
How Art Shapes our Nature
Witchy Woman - Salem 1682
The Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Eric Bogosian tells of the plot that avenged the Armenian Genocide
Can the under two hour marathon be accomplished?
Is Robin Cook afraid to go to the Hospital?
How Frederick Forsyth's real life exceeded his expectations
Sanitized Death from Above
Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
Syria Burning
Is the country even worse off than it seems?
Detroit once symbolized America
A Not So Random Walk Through L.A.
War of the Whales: An environmental adventure story
This woman changed and defined Hollywood in the 70's
War Correspondent to the World's Women
The Moral Panic of the 1980's
The Making of Asian America
Labor Day for Domestic Workers
Is College Football worth the cost?
The Gift of Failure
Wes Craven - The Joy of Being Scared
Oliver Sacks R.I.P
The not so perfect storm
The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing
Plenty Ladylike
Beat L.A.
Why Addiction is Not a Disease - Recovering from Recovery
Life after Nuclear War
From a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Eighty Years Ago, Paperback Books Were Considered "Creative Destruction"
Is Water the Sine Qua Non of "red" and "blue" America?
The New Science of Criminal Injustice
Are you ever surprised that you are being lied to?
Big Science and The Launch of the Military Industrial Complex
Baseball's Endless Season - Is it too long?
Primates of Park Avenue
How to Keep Listening When the World Wants a Fight
Being Nixon: A Man Divided
Nixon's the One
Charles and Ray Eames and the technology of timelessness
Before Jobs, Musk, Hewlett & Packard, or Ford...there were The Wright Brothers
A Russian Spy, A Double Agent, The FBI and Hooters Parking Lot
Never bet against Elon Musk's vision of the futrue
Would the real Alex Vause please stand up
How the law is shaping families and how new kinds of families are shaping the law
Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship
Who cares what Jefferson would do?
The fall of CrackBerry
One Nation Under God...and Corporation
The Brain and the Gut...together again
Can a Well-Tuned Brain keep up with the modern world?
There once was a time in Washington when negotiation and compromise were not dirty words
Project Based Learning for the Military and Business
Why Peter Pan is the model of our Infantile Age
Every generation has its own disease that moves from doomed to hopeful
A Philosophy of Happiness
Why we are all stronger in broken places
Ken Robinson on Creative Schools
How simplicity can thrive in a complex world
Our Kids
The new white, middle class, suburban heroin addict
Why men fight and why we love to watch
Water in all the wrong places
Barney Frank
The capital of 20th century urbanism
We are in the Golden Age of Public Shaming
In Defense of Liberal Education
RoadTrip Nation's ROADMAP
The real evolution of Steve Jobs
Creative Destruction comes to Warfare
Editing life code
The Myth of America as a "Christian Nation"
Boston's other unsolved crime
Eating Viet Nam
Space is a family business
Gary Wills on The Future of the Catholic Church
The End of College
Suicide is not Painless
How the Constitution Invented Hollywood and Silicon Valley
LBJ, Selma and the Great Society
Lies, Damned Lies and Love
The Federalist Society and the conservative Revolution
This is your Brain on Food
What we don't see about the Middle East
Lemony Snicket vs. The Pirates
Chuck Todd captures the Catch 22 of the Obama Presidency
Can Boomers afford to age with dignity?
Filmmaking that truly stands the test of time
Tales from Both Sides of the Brain
The Man Who Couldn't Stop......The Man Who Couldn't Stop......
The Science behind Touch, Pleasure and Pain
Lynsey Addario: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Has Italy always been falling apart?
Miranda July
Just how dangerous is Vladimir Putin? Ask Bill Browder!
Marriage today is not your parents marriage...but it just might be your grandparents
Is the perfect Battery the holy grail of the electronic age?
Fear, Hope and Dread
Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
Vidal
The paid dogs of war
Alexandra Fuller
The Brain's Way
A Biography of PTSD
The last time the music business died
The Legacy of Tahrir Square...Four years later
Personality and temperament determine everything!
Congress then and now....Lyndon Johnson and the Battle for the Great Socieity
The media history that must be the context for the Net Neutrality debate
The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years
Can anybody save Yahoo?
The Political Classroom or can we ever teach citizenship again?
The Internet is Not the Answer
The Killing of the Creative Class
Close Encounters of the mystical kind
The Medicalization of Ordinary Life
Sit right down and write myself a letter
The Sounds of Silence...Deaf Culture and what it means to hear
What caring and service really means
Language is Culture, Culture is Language
Why Learning Beats Knowing
A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World
The quest driven life
We may be an insignificant and fleeting moment in time...and we know it
Gus Speth explains why the Environmental Movement still matters
Why Dreamers matter!
The best places to work
The healing power of our pets
Cheryl Strayed's WILD
If you're afraid of Genetically Modified Food, you'll really be afraid of Genetically Modified Humans
Only satire can save us now
Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production
Is Word of Mouth advertising driving Black Friday this year?
The Marshmallow Test
Valerie Plame's BURNED
The Business Moments You Can't Ignore
Mark Leibovich's portraits of Citizens of the Green Room
National Book Award Winner, Jacqueline Woodson
Language and Cultural Evolution
Technology will keep us together
Leading with Intention
The Uncensored History of the Food Network
Rules for Assassins
Ratchets, Hatchets & Pivots
Why Motivating People Does not work
Love, Sex and Popular Culture in 21st Century America
The making of Super Althletes
Just how absurd is life on the West Bank?
By the Book
The Lessons of 1970's S. Africa
Literature vs. The Future
Superstorm Sandy +2 years - What have we learned?
The Birth of the Pill
Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
How the World Works
The Robots are coming
Understanding the Internet of Things
The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Capitalism vs. The Climate
How the Obesity Crisis Is Complicating America's Love Life
Terrorism and the Search for Justice
Superintelligence
The no problem, problem
I'm not the boss of me
Daring: My Passages
How Change Happens
A new perspective on the Middle East
Cosby
How many scandals can we understand at once?
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles Blow
Writing in the 21st Century
Gratitude & Trust
The world's first tech start-up
How technology is reshaping philosophy
Foreign Correspondent
Words to eat by
This is your brain on narcissism.
Instant Gratification and the Decline of Institutions
Technology, IS making us smarter!
Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence
Why do we celebrate diversity, and then try and co-opt it?
The New Capital of Big Data
The Boys In The Boat
The 9/11 generation
The Gold Rush...then and now
Do we need a constitutional amendment to take money out of politics?
Don't watch another Football game, until you listen to this!
The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
What deeper learning is all about
Change or perish in education...How to build a better teacher
Information....adapt or perish
The Power of Creative Pairs - The Powers of Two
The Real Cost of Fracking
The fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan
Have we reached the end of American community?
Have we reached The End of Absence?
Three Women at Home and at War
Looking at Feguson through the eyes of the South in 1964
Do you believe in magic?
Can we ever achieve a shared truth about the legacy of slavery?
What did he know and when did he know it....is a Nixon defense even possible?
What did he know and when did he know it....is a Nixon defense even possible?
Is our long national nightmare over yet?
The deep trouble of exploration
The ecological history of greater New York
Why Vietnam still matters
Parenting 101 - Lead with Acceptance
How good intentions created the student loan crisis
Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century
Good...Evil...Indifferent
Do Fathers Matter?
Does the US have more A*holes today?
How Immigration became illegal
The Vacationers
What happened to good seafood at a good price?
How Millennials are changing the Middle East
The Lives and Faces of the World's Poor
Is there any hope for the US / Iranian relationship?
The real Chinese American experience
The beginning of an era and the end of innocence
Where's the beef?
How the immigrant feels
A Spymaster's Story
A Spymaster's Story
Dead laws and broken government
Why John Wayne still matters
The Bronx is calling
The tangled roots of American independence
Why we love our Vodka
The information age, long before the internet
David Boies & Ted Olson and The Legal Case for Marriage Equality
Laurence Tribe on The Roberts Court and the Constitution
The shame of juvenile prison in America
Why how we approach cancer treatment matters.
Why is anyone listening to Antonin Scalia?
What if you discovered your father was a notorious serial killer?
Ceasar Chavez and the nobility of poverty
Why is Green Building Exploding?
THE American Spirit
Is Hemp the coming disruptive Agricultural Revolution?
Junipero Serra's mission and the Founding of California