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“This district is substantively and geographically quite different from that, so you certainly can't compare 41 from before to 41 today,” Prof. Sara Sadhwani told LAist.

Prof. Jessica Stern explains the work behind a 25-year study that revealed how empathy is passed from parents to teens to their future children.

Latinas in the region are experiencing an accelerated rise in labor market outcomes and college attendance across generations, Prof. Fernando Lozano writes in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. 

“We are facing a system that privileges white people and punishes people of color, especially if that person is Latino,” Prof. Emeritus Miguel Tinker Salas said in La Opinion.

“Sometimes the only evidence of a child’s existence is a scrap of paper with a hastily scribbled note,” said Preston McBride, a Pomona College historian who has examined boarding school death records.

California voters appear poised to approve a redistricting measure placed on the ballot in August by Democrats and the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, who have cast it as a chance to check President Donald Trump’s power.

In The Christian Science Monitor, Prof. Sara Sadhwani says she believes her state must act to mitigate a GOP power grab elsewhere.

Learn the basics about Venezuela, an oil-rich South American nation defined by vibrant culture, a long fight for democracy, and a storied history with the United States.

Prof. Char Miller explains what makes burn scars so dangerous when heavy rain arrives in California.

“In any given moment, numerous powers that be would like to see the status quo maintained because they are the ones that have power and authority,” Prof. Sara Sadhwani said.