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...between (crunchy, techy) Northern and (hipster, surfer) Southern California, and especially (richer, denser, bluer) coastal and (poorer, sparser, redder) inland California. But one generalization has held true from the Gold Rush to the human-potential movement to the dotcom boom: California stands for change, for disruption of the status quo. "California is not another American state," concluded Carey McWilliams in his 1949 history California: The Great Exception. "It is a revolution within the states...
...Corzine could really use some of what President Barack Obama has - not just the charisma, but also the credibility, the aura of a leader who can shake up politics as usual. If one thing is clear in New Jersey, it's that voters are fed up with the status quo...
These statistics underline the outsized role that the color of one’s skin plays in the college admissions process and highlight the need for a fundamental transition of American affirmative-action policies toward a socioeconomically oriented program to supplant the race-based status quo...
Indeed, the political realities are sometimes dire. As American environmentalists discovered during former President George W. Bush's Administration, it was difficult enough to preserve existing levels of protection for wildlife, let alone push for tougher standards. Yet if Traill and his colleagues are right, the status quo is not enough to protect endangered species, and it's too weak to stop the sixth great extinction wave...
...traditional Cold War discipline of arms control with Russia. He's done that, in part, by jettisoning the post-Cold War hubris of his predecessors who acted as if Russia's strategic interests, and its nuclear arsenal, no longer mattered. Instead, the progress has come in traditional quid-pro-quo arrangements, most notably President Obama's decision to scrap an as-yet hypothetical missile shield on Russia's doorstep. Still, the world's two nuclear powers plan to negotiate reductions to their own arsenals, and to take the lead in strengthening global efforts against further proliferation. (See pictures of Obama...