UCLA professor engineers climate responses A blue-ribbon panel produced ideas. Then came politics. Shade cools neighborhoods, some more than others Is China leaving the United States behind? New study asks why more people don’t bike in Los
Shird once ran a drug ring. Now he writes and speaks — and helps others to recover Deliberately misreading science to justify grievance Researchers probe cause and effect with media and extremism Bias has long distorted diagnoses of Black c…
California is big, diverse and complicated. The challenge of governing this state is huge. THE TITLE AND THEME of this issue of Blueprint — our 15th, for those keeping score — comes from a classic work of journalism and political science, V…
I'm a writer. I don't write scripts. IF YOU LIVE IN LOS ANGELES and make a living as a writer, particularly as a journalist, then people likely have a preconception about you: You’re doing it only until you sell a script. The belief is unde…
Bias has long distorted diagnoses of Black children with emotional distress. The results are tragic. Suicide rates among Black youth have been rising for decades, but they have seldom been a primary focus of research. That’s an oversight wh…
Listen: Senator Alex Padilla and Blueprint editor Jim Newton continue in conversation, discussing the senator's manhandling by Noem's security forces this summer Jim Newton is a veteran author, teacher and journalist who spent 25 years as a…
Mayor takes on L.A.'s most difficult issue with deep determination TWO IMPRESSIONS LINGER FROM THESE conversations with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. One was her openness. There is a refreshing curiosity about Bass, a break from mayors who
Trying to keep the peace on Metro transit lines “CAN I HELP YOU WITH SOMETHING?” Martin Arenas calls out to a woman wandering through Union Station, her face shifting from confusion to frustration. “Where can I tell my daughter to pick me u…
How L.A. politics shaped the New York mayor's race The June 24 victory OF Zohran Mamdani in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary was, as many have noted, a political earthquake. In its wake, one of the aftershock questions was: What…
The unequal toll of a devastating year and the challenge ahead White supremacists confront evidence that they are not only wrong — they are not even White An ambitious data project reveals the extent of COVID’s spread inside American prison…
UCLA professor engineers climate responses For Gaurav Sant, the ocean has long carried deep, personal meaning. “I grew up near the ocean on the west coast of India in a state called Goa,” said Sant, a civil and environmental engineering pro…
She began by being the first lawyer to sue under the Clean Air Act. Now, she oversees California’s response to climate change. Jerry Brown has been fighting for the environment for decades. He reflects on that history. “We help utilities an…