This special issue on California fulfills a long-standing ambition of mine: to explain this amazing state to a national and international audience that knows it better for its cliches than for its complexity. My colleagues jokingly say I'm interested mainly because I grew up in San Francisco. I suppose there's some truth to that, if only because the changes in the state are all the more overwhelming to someone who knew it in the 1950s and '60s.
Any biases I may have were offset by senior editor Jack White, a North Carolinian who got some exposure to the Golden State when...
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