Fourteen years after the demise of the last serious attempt to revise California’s much maligned Constitution, the effort has been renewed again. California Forward, a foundation funded bipartisan coalition, has proposed a slate of structural reforms that could be adopted as either legislative...

The Big Sort maintains that America is sorting itself out by lifestyle. But is this good for Democracy? Bruce Cain reviews the evidence for this provocative thesis.

Since the early 1990s, California has experienced a recurring budget crisis. This article examines the combined budgets of state and local government and the institutions for creating these budgets to ascertain the source of the problem. The state collects more taxes and fees as a percent of...