SACRAMENTO — People often ask me how things have changed at the state Capitol since I began covering news there many decades ago. My latest short answer: Look at the new California Senate leader. In ...

A few years ago, I got a new license plate for my car. I chose the number 2024 as a reminder of how important that year was going to be. The fate of our nation hung in the balance — would we accept ...

So, did anything happen while I was gone? A year ago, I stepped away from Inside Higher Ed after two decades as editor and co-founder, and I spent 2025 recovering (from 20 years of overwork at IHE and ...

This was my 80-somethingth New Year’s holiday. I’m a bit older than our current president but younger than Methuselah (see Holy Bible or jump to last paragraph). But that’s a lotta welcoming of new ...

State lawmakers in Sacramento introduced 2,350 bills this past year. Gov. Gavin Newsom eventually signed 794 bills and vetoed 123. Here are a few that take effect on Jan. 1 for which you need to be ...

In the mid-2000s, one of my then-Bulletin colleagues pitched and undertook a project in which he’d follow individuals as they worked on their New Year’s resolutions. He’d check in with them quarterly ...

It’s the week between Christmas and New Year’s. Or as writer Jonathan Edward Durham calls it, “Full Goblin Mode.” It’s a stretch when time ceases to have meaning… when you have no idea if it’s Monday ...

TikTok's U.S. operations will be housed in a new joint venture, according to a memo sent to employees by CEO Shou Zi Chew. The entity is named TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC. As part of the venture, ...

While Mayor-elect Helena Moreno and the City Council clutch pearls over masked federal agents and demand “transparency” during Operation Catahoula Crunch, the rest of us are wondering where this ...

WASHINGTON — Somali immigrants living in Minnesota effectively stole more than $1 billion in taxpayer money over the last five years, The New York Times reported Sunday. In what White House Press ...

They’re gone? Really gone? President Donald Trump’s invasion of Chicago with Border Patrol agents has seemingly fizzled out for now. Here’s a bit of advice from a longtime political observer: If Trump ...