How does a college generate $25 million more a year by enrolling 800 more students? I explore how California campuses are in an enrollment doom loop and how they plan to get out of it. This story relies on records requests + 13 interviews 📸 @zinchiang.bsky.social calmatters.org/education/hi...

Thousands of Iranian Shahists celebrate the death of Ayatollah Khamenei in Los Angeles on Sunday. Calls for the return of the monarch King Reza Pahlavi. Iranian state media reports that 115 people were killed during an attack on a girl’s school. #Iran #rezapahlavi #khamenei

Didn’t see Anthropic as the last bastion on my bingo card. Deeper and more technically informed discussions are needed within the academic and journalistic communities about how alignment of the tools we use impact our work.

New for The Ten Four: A bill aiming to protect the rights of family members after a police officer’s use of force that results in serious injury or death has passed both houses of the California Legislature. It now heads to Governor Gavin Newsom for his signature. latenfour.com/2025/09/15/g...

Asking for funding is a wildly uncomfortable experience but we gotta do it: this newsletter is reader-funded, and I've got some goals I need your help to accomplish. This month, I'm hoping to reach 50 paid subs to the newsletter. If I reach 1000 by end of 2026, I'll fly to you and fight your boss👊

World Photography Day is Aug. 19. To celebrate this day that recognizes the significance of pictures, NPR asked readers and listeners to share the story behind their favorite photos they have taken.

My latest article on Trump & Putin's Talk in Alaska is up. In my first ever Op-Ed, I break down the jargon and moving goal-posts in the peace seeking efforts from all parties involved : The United States, Russia, Ukraine, and the European Union. Read/Listen Here : open.substack.com/pub/zinchian...

I made a DRAFT field guide to help journalists (or anyone) navigate police + protests in Los Angeles. ~80% done. Slides all illustrated w/photos: 👮 Agencies & Uniforms 🔫 Firearms & Devices 🎯 Munitions 🦺 PPE 🏥 Injuries Sharing this as rough draft b/c feedback VERY welcome! (Note: Google Slides.)

President Trump agreed with European leaders including Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to red lines for the coming talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Coping with cancer and its aftermath isn't easy for anyone. But men tend to isolate more, seek less support and, alarmingly, die earlier than women. Young survivors are working to change that.

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Firefighters use bulldozers, hand tools, and perform backfire to prevent the wildfire from reaching nearby homes. Aided by the heatwave in Southern California, dry vegetation, and steep topology; the Canyon Fire has scorched more than 4,800 acres and is 0% contained as of Friday morning.

Our first Substack article is available now : ICE Raid provokes protests, searches for missing workers in Camarillo, California open.substack.com/pub/zinchian...

6/19/25, Hollywood CA. Outside a Home Depot on Sunset Blvd, community members pack up food stands after street vendors were seized in a federal immigration raid.

A foreshadow of darker times. #resist Archived from 2020

For #BlueSkyArtShow Theme #Reflections Looters exit the ATM room of a bank in Santa Monica, Calif. on 5/3/2020. Just blocks away, police disperses a peaceful protest against the murder of George Martin using anti-riot weapons and shops are ransacked as police cars pass by without taking action. #BLM

5/3/20 Two men burn American flags as looters and bystanders film them on smartphones outside a supermarket on Lincoln Blvd. in Santa Monica, Calif. on May 31, 2020. Police disperses a peaceful protest against the murder of George Martin blocks away while shops in the city are ransacked.