10+ hour, 23+ min ago  (1842+ words) By Lauren Hepler and Marisa Kendall, Cal Matters As COVID-19 tore through California, Jennifer Hark Dietz had a decision to make. The state was making perhaps its biggest push ever to get people off the street, offering up billions of…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (651+ words) Avik Jain Chatlani Prism We humans'when we take a little break from destroying the Earth'are quite talented at producing books and movies about impending dystopia. And, occasionally, art becomes life when trickles of a hyperstratified future leak into the present....

1+ week, 50+ min ago  (716+ words) Dan was a gifted prose writer. The book rightly opens with several chapters he wrote thirty years ago, taken from the introspective, personal autobiography that he began to write but soon abandoned when he decided instead to produce his politically…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (436+ words) This article was originally published by Truthout The state's messy primary underscores the urgent need for ranked-choice voting in California " and beyond. That hasn't happened. In fact, since 2010, only Massachusetts has flirted with adopting such a system " although its proponents…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (792+ words) This article was originally published by Truthout Educators and activists are fighting for changes to a bill they say was "designed to create an atmosphere of fear." A bill introduced in the California legislature meant to help ensure open discussion…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (878+ words) Victoria Valenzuela for Prism The'International Indian Treaty Council, which Gali has worked with for 17 years, said in'a press release'that the group doesn't want to see Alcatraz, where many Indigenous leaders were imprisoned, return to a place of misery and repression....

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1066+ words) Hilary Hodge" for Waging Nonviolence One phone booth was in Abilene, Texas, one of the most conservative pockets of the country, and the other was in one of the most liberal, San Francisco. Signs on the phone booths read, "Call…...

3+ week, 59+ min ago  (303+ words) Former senior Biden advisor Amos Hochstein said during'an interview on Sunday'that the Biden administration had been preparing to bomb Iran if they had won re-election in 2024. Hochstein, for the record, is an'Israel-born IDF veteran'who'reportedly played a major role'in the Biden…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (592+ words) A Miami Art Week audience watched wide-eyed in December as a pair of towering, handmade puppets wobbled and lurched through Locust Projects as improvised music engulfed the space." While they have largely been accepted into the ecosystem of highbrow art,…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1115+ words) By Marisa Kendall, Cal Matters Maybe the way out of California's homelessness crisis is to prevent it in the first place," rather than focusing only on people who have already lost their housing." That's the thinking behind a program in…...