Poverty

Los Angeles homeless encampment

Housing Alone Won’t Solve California’s Homelessness Problem Housing Alone Won’t Solve California’s Homelessness Problem

Without mental health services, drug treatment programs, and job training for ex-prisoners, California's most vulnerable population will remain at risk.

May 28, 2021 / Sasha Abramsky

Hearts for Palestine

Hearts for Palestine Hearts for Palestine

The Palestinian people's struggling for survival.

May 27, 2021 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo and Mohammad Sabaaneh

Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter Black Lives Matter

What Ahmaud Arbery could have been.

May 26, 2021 / OppArt / Keith Henry Brown

Thoughts and Prayers Again and Again

Thoughts and Prayers Again and Again Thoughts and Prayers Again and Again

Hypocrisy and inaction on guns.

May 24, 2021 / OppArt / Gary Taxali

Massacres Remembered

Massacres Remembered Massacres Remembered

Gut Checks. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of May 17.

May 21, 2021 / Steve Brodner

California Governor Newsom Unveils His Economic Recovery Package For The State

The Blue Welfare State The Blue Welfare State

With its new budget proposal, California could be poised to go down the social-democratic route taken by most Western democracies three-quarters of a century ago.

May 21, 2021 / Sasha Abramsky

Surveillance

Surveillance Surveillance

Over-policing in Black and brown communities.

May 19, 2021 / OppArt / Mac McGill

Claire McClinton

The Fierce Prophetic Vision of Poor Women The Fierce Prophetic Vision of Poor Women

Women like Claire McClinton, Johnnie Tillmon, and Julia Ward Howe have allowed us glimpses of what a country that served and empowered all women looks like.

May 15, 2021 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

Iraqi Refugee Murder Arrest

Tragedy and Hope on the Western Front Tragedy and Hope on the Western Front

The imprisonment of Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen and the prospect of humane redistribution of wealth show California both failing and aspiring to its political promise.

May 14, 2021 / Sasha Abramsky

Black Families Matter

Black Families Matter Black Families Matter

Honoring black lives, every day.

May 12, 2021 / OppArt / Isis Davis-Marks

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