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Podcast

What’s Happening in Los Angeles?

Episode 8

June 24, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

Our guest speakers are from UCLA School of Law’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy: Ahilan Arulanantham, professor from practice and faculty co-director, and Talia Inlander, the Center’s deputy director.

Podcast

The Role of States and Localities

Episode 7

June 13, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

This episode explores how state and local governments significantly impact immigrants through policies that either support or resist federal enforcement. Some jurisdictions implement sanctuary measures to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities and promote inclusion, such as offering in-state tuition to undocumented students. Under the Trump administration, there has been ...

Literature

Something New Under the Sun

Drought, Hollywood, and corporate corruption in the age of alternative facts

September 10, 2021 • by Alexandra Kleeman

_____ Excerpted from Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman. Copyright © 2021 by Alexandra Kleeman. Published by Hogarth, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Read an interview between Alexandra Kleeman and novelist Helen Schulman about Something New Under the Sun. _____ Alexandra Kleeman ...

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I Ain’t Gonna Work on Merritt’s Farm No More

A brief history of central California’s forgotten empire

October 11, 2019 • by Matthew Ford

In early 1949 as the shift away from wartime production slowed economic growth in the South, my great-grandparents (Glen and Lucille) began looking for new opportunities. Glen’s wartime jobs at a military training field and an ammunition factory in Oakridge Tennessee dried up, and he went back to tenant farming ...

Feature

They Won’t Stop Until They Own it All

Beachfront owners’ and Libertarian activists’ fight to end coastal land-use regulations

August 20, 2018 • by Andrew W. Kahrl

America’s coasts are in danger of becoming the latest casualty in the one-percent’s relentless quest to own the entire planet, and in capitalism’s inexorable push to commodify everything. At the present moment, the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to hear an appeal filed by Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla that challenges the constitutionality of ...

North America

Right on Ron

Remembering the former California Congressman

July 31, 2018 • by John Lawrence

Ron Dellums was elected to Congress during my first few months in Berkeley, where I was studying for a Ph.D. in American History. For someone who had grown up very involved in electoral politics, and then had his commitment soured by the horror of Vietnam, Dellums provided an extraordinary transition ...