Pacific Council member Kerry Ayazi discusses how Senate Bill 729 expands access to family planning for millions of Californians. Her analysis demonstrates that mandating infertility and IVF coverage for large employers dismantles financial barriers while expanding definitions to include LGBTQ+ individuals and same-sex couples previously excluded from reproductive care.

Pacific Council member Naseem Qader discusses how "Latin America" as diplomatic shorthand creates blind spots in U.S. foreign policy. Her analysis demonstrates that treating the hemisphere as a single crisis zone causes leaders to misread where risk and leverage actually sit.

Pacific Council Junior Fellow Joseph Leonard examines how China might target California’s public opinion, infrastructure, and economy to weaken the US resolve during a quarantine or blockade of Taiwan. The article highlights the importance of bolstering resilience in California as a critical factor in maintaining US deterrence in the Western Pacific.

Pacific Council member Naseem Qader shows how the Pacific behaves less like territory and more like software. She compares it to the Atlantic, which gave the world its institutions, but the Pacific has become a planetary coordination system where cooperation is grounded in relationship and feedback.

Jonathan Fielding, Peter Katona, and Seth Freeman argue that the Trump administration's dismantling of the CDC, cancellation of cancer research funding, and withdrawal of global health aid constitute a dangerous "War on Public Health" that will lead to increased suffering, preventable deaths, and the reversal of decades of lifesaving progress.

Pacific Council member Naseem Qader reveals that power in 2025 is no longer about controlling territory but instead about commanding the networks, code, and minerals that shape how the world connects. She talks about how we’re living in a new world where speed has become strategy and where influence outruns understanding.

Pacific Council member Colette Mazzucelli and co-author James Felton Keith reveal how youth unemployment has become central to understanding spatial inequality in the global economy, showing that where industries cluster, opportunities follow.

Pacific Council member Naseem Qader shows how tariffs have quietly become the hidden architecture of global power, rewiring the world economy through deliberate detours that reshape everything from supply chains to international alliances, making economic disruption the new language of geopolitics.

Pacific Council member Cassie Hermiston-Boyd shares her takeaways from the Young Diplomatic Forum (YDF) in Washington, D.C.

Pacific Council Junior Fellow Joseph Leonard examines how China is exerting an increasingly malign influence over California, just as Washington has dismantled the very defenses meant to stop them.