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  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: The Battle of Los Angeles
    January 20, 2021
    | David Dayen

    The nation’s biggest county has the biggest COVID outbreak. Plus, a memorial to the dead.

  • Environment
    Not Making the Climate Connection to California's Fires is Media Malpractice
    September 18, 2020

    The effect of such climate silence is to imply that the wildfires are random—a stroke of bad luck, perhaps, in an already woefully unlucky year. But we know better than this. We know that we humans are causing disasters like this. And we know that we can solve the climate crisis, should we muster the political will to do so. 

  • Letters From an American
    Please Stay Behind the Yellow Line
    September 12, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Today is the nineteenth anniversary of the terrorist attack that killed almost 3000 of us on this date in 2001. It feels wrong to write about daily news today and yet, as we approach 200,000 dead from a mismanaged pandemic and face unprecedented assaults on our national government, it also feels wrong not to.

  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
    July 22, 2020
    "Riding Into California"
  • Poets & Writers
    On Howling in Mill Valley and Walt Whitman’s "Barbaric Yawp"
    April 8, 2020
    | Thomas Singer
    Whitman would be proud of the people of Mill Valley, California, and their new nightly ritual of communal howling at each other out of their windows.
  • Democracy & Government
    The President Plays with Matches
    December 19, 2017
    | Rebecca Gordon
    The whole world burns while Trump satisfies his ego and his need for attention.
  • No Choice
    No Choice: Liz Young
    November 13, 2017
    As women across the country face increasing obstacles to making decisions about their own lives, #NoChoice presents the lived experiences of women to make the political personal.
  • Activism
    Visible and Indivisible: The Birth of a Resistance Movement
    August 22, 2017
    | Kate Aronoff
    With an average of two chapters in every congressional district, Indivisible has become a force to be reckoned with – and Congress is taking notice.
  • Economy & Work
    Did California Figure Out How to Fix Global Warming?
    March 16, 2017
    | Gabriel Kahn
    How the Golden State went green.
  • Society
    Homeless in the Shadow of Santa Barbara’s Mansions
    February 24, 2017
    | Jennifer Dworkin
    For hundreds of families, home is a car in a quiet parking lot.


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