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“Social media has changed the game. People have always looked for candidates they could have a beer with but now it’s about the ways in which they’re able to connect with voters online,” Prof. Sara Sadhwani says.

Arely Zimmerman, associate professor of intercollegiate Chicana/o Latina/o studies, discusses her book, Contentious Citizenship: Salvadoran Activism and Belonging Across Borders, with the University of Arizona Press.

In the wake of last year’s devastating July 4 flood, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reviewed nearly 60 yeas of legislation and identified over five dozen flood safety bills rejected by Texas lawmakers.

“Seville is the first city outside the Caribbean, besides New Orleans (which for many is an extension of the Caribbean in the US), where I've seen the art of cultivating joy so deliberately,” Prof. Esther Hernández-Medina writes in Acento.

Prof. Sara Sadhwani was included in the launch episode of “Governance Matters,” a new podcast from the Haynes Foundation exploring the people and ideas shaping the future of governance in the L.A. region.

Just days before primary ballots are mailed to California voters, Pomona College will host a live gubernatorial debate featuring the state’s leading candidates. The timing is intentional. The setting matters just as much, Prof. Sara Sadhwani writes.

Prof. Sara Masland talks to The New York Times about the signs and symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder.

On the Scoot Show with Scoot, Prof. Char Miller says the Trump administration’s move to shove the Forest Service out of Washington and into Salt Lake City is not some innocent bureaucratic reshuffle. 

Economic vulnerability from import tariffs, government shutdowns, and rising health care costs, among other policy changes, lead Fernando Lozano, a professor of economics at Pomona College, to conclude that “patience is very short” among consumers.

The San Antonio Current writes: “San Antonio missed out on industrialization in the late 19th century, in part because its risk-adverse business elite held a strong disdain for labor unions, according to Pomona College professor Char Miller.”