Interactive

How safe are electronic voting machines?

How much do your neighbors around the world pay for their water — and just how much more, or less, do they use as a result?

If neuroimaging technology hits the market, and mind readers become as commonplace as phones, will anyone still want to play charades? We look at three scenarios in a world where we know what you’re thinking right now…

What do sheep, libertarians, spam and global warming have in common? The tragedy of the commons.

What do junk bonds have to do with junk food in inner-city communities?

Why do California’s assembly members represent four times as many people as their colleagues in Texas and New York?

A look at six machines that could convert the ocean’s power into electricity.

There’s more to this often cited figure than meets the eye at first glance.

When it comes to tax-funded public services, is the whole greater than the sum?

Tag along with a promiscuous RFID chip as it travels from factory floor to supermarket checkout counter.

Connect the dots between oil wells, refineries and your local gas station.

See how capital, services, goods and people circulate in and out of the Golden State.

From brownfields to infill, new approaches to urban development may help California ease into the next century.

Explore one way to pack and ship a giant lens for use in an outer space telescope.

Guess which occupations will have the largest job growth in the next 10 years. The answers will surprise you.

Reforming California’s beleaguered workers’ compensation system by standardizing the evaluation of disabilities.

Find out California’s initiative process works and why it sometimes fails only after a measure is passed.

Governor Schwarzenegger is not the first governor to deal with a looming budget deficit. See how the last three governors faced their “rainy days.”

An interactive journey through the history of California politics, culminating in the special recall election of 2003.