Claremont McKenna College News

Students and community members take direct action to negate the racist anti-immigrant police checkpoints in Pomona.

The Inland Empire's rapid growth over the past decade means the region will almost certainly have more representation - and more elected Democrats - in Sacramento beginning in 2012, experts say.

Analysis examining voluntary environmental and social reporting for 26 of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies has revealed that many big players, including Pfizer, have room for improvement.

The Roberts Environmental Center at Claremont McKenna College today released the analysis of social responsibility reporting for the 26 largest pharmaceutical companies world-wide. The report contains a compilation of Pacific Sustainability Index scores evaluating the environmental and social reporting of the companies.

Endowments at local colleges have taken a hit as each scrambles for more money during a down economy.

Minxin Pei , Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, doubts the experts who have called this the Chinese century.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's choice of Sen. Abel Maldonado for lieutenant governor was essentially a political challenge to his fellow Republicans: Expand the party or continue to wither on the vine of ideological purity.

Cerebyte Inc. , a company that helps businesses develop, implement and sustain widespread performance improvement, have released Strategy to Action in 10 Days: Creating High Performance Organizations.

Like athleticism, intellect and addiction, what defines investors may be in the genes.

Are you happy? How happy? Every year the Princeton Review ranks colleges and universities nationwide on 62 different lists - such as "Most Beautiful Campus," "Best Professors" or "Biggest Jock School" - but one list gets at what most people really want to know: Who's the happiest? Brown University, Clemson University and Claremont McKenna College ...

Brian Kopczynski, a junior at Claremont McKenna College, competed in the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships for his third year in a row, Nov.

Attorney General Jerry Brown, left, walks in the Capitol in September. The Democrat, who was California's governor from early 1975 until early 1983, has not officially entered the governor's race next year, although polls show he has significant support.

Pay for California's top elected officials will be slashed by 18 percent next month, one year earlier than expected, to abide by an opinion issued Thursday from Attorney General Jerry Brown.

Jerry Brown was sounding downright conservative when he told a group of corporate attorneys last week that the state's businesses are burdened with too many regulations.

Good for The New Yorker's Avi Zenilman for thinking to turn to Claremont McKenna College's Jon Shields, author of the excellent The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right , for perspective on the Stupak Amendment and its attendant controversies.

Gianina Horton, 17, is determined. She was raised by a single mom who gave birth to her at 18, lives in a troubled Denver neighborhood and is accustomed to hearing gunshots at night.

JIM LEHRER: That follows take two on China, a big-picture -- big-picture look at its relationship with the United States.

Last weekend, the House of Representatives passed a health-care-reform bill with an amendment sponsored by Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak restricting any of the new government-supported health-care options from covering abortion.

Campaign signs litter the landscape these days in Walnut Creek. Residents' mailboxes overflow with glossy brochures detailing the perils or rewards of an expansion at a downtown shopping mall.

Victoria Sancho Lobis, the first curator of the print collection at the University of San Diego, is also the new curator of its fine art galleries.