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Back to SearchHow Trump's Immigration Crackdown is Playing Out in the Bay Area
The Trump Administration has targeted Southern California for its harshest crackdown on immigrants. For the past few weeks, federal agents have raide…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Molly Jong-Fast on 'How to Lose Your Mother'
“As much as I love my mother, I’ve often found myself regarding her with feelings that are somewhat closer to the opposite of love,” writes political…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
As Iran and Israel War Continues, What Does It Mean for the Bay Area Iranian Diaspora?
As the war between Israel and Iran continues, members of the Iranian diaspora in the Bay Area are closely watching as people in Iran are being asked …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Journalist Barbara Demick Traces Decades of Trauma From China’s One-Child Policy
Nearly a decade after the end of China’s one-child policy, families are still reeling from its traumas. In multiple cases, officials in China forcibl…
9 months ago
U.S. Weighs Role It Should Play in Escalating Israel-Iran Conflict
President Trump announced on Thursday that in the next two weeks, he would make a decision about the role the U.S. will take in the escalating Israel…
9 months ago
Checking in on California’s Reparations Effort
Two years after the state’s landmark report on reparations for Black residents, where does the effort stand? The California Legislative Black Caucus …
9 months ago
Stories of Resistance, Survival and Beauty from the Bay Area’s Trans Community
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law on Wednesday that bans gender-affirming medical care for minors. For many transgender people, the rulin…
9 months ago
Can the Left Win Back Working-Class Voters?
Working-class voters don’t just vote for their policy preferences — they vote for the party that feels like “their people.” Increasingly, that’s not …
9 months ago
Rebecca Solnit on Approaching These Times with Hope, Imagination and Perseverance
In her new book of essays, “No Straight Road Takes You There,” writer and activist Rebecca Solnit urges us to not give in to feelings of doom and com…
9 months ago
‘When It All Burns’ Brings Us to the Fireline
For California firefighters battling wildland flames, the work is up close, unrelenting and fueled by a climate growing hotter and drier by the year.…
9 months ago