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Gavin Newsom will remain the governor of California. The state voted against recalling the 53-year-old Democrat on Tuesday — and it wasn’t close. When the Associate Press called the race just before 9 p.m. on the West Coast, a whopping 67 percent of voters had opposed the recall. The decision …

In the fall of 2018, Paradise, California, a small town among the high, forested buttes at the northern end of the Central Valley, was a tinderbox. The hot summer had sucked the moisture out of the grass and the pine forest. Demon winds blew through the trees and canyons. Everyone …

This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. The West Coast housing market is metaphorically on fire — with rotting shacks selling for millions. Decades of policies to restrict housing in desirable neighborhoods has pushed prices up — and it has …

The words amateur sports are time travelers. They come from a time long ago, when Americans had a more halcyon ideal of sports that perhaps wasn’t colored by, well, all this color on their courts and fields. The mindset it reinforces seeks to maintain a false purity, decelerating progress as …