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Back to SearchElie Honig on the Challenges and Perils of Prosecuting a President
What happens when prosecutors take on sitting U.S. presidents? That’s the subject of CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig’s new book, which traces the…
10 months ago
In Search of Home Part 1: How to Prevent Homelessness
We’re launching a new series, “In Search of Home: Solutions for the Homelessness Crisis” to explore how homelessness happens and what it takes to mo…
10 months ago
Mary Roach: You’re More Replaceable Than You Know
What do frog skin, polyester hair and gene-edited pig kidneys have in common? They’re all part of humanity’s long quest to swap out ailing parts of o…
10 months ago
Has the Risk of Nuclear War Been Normalized?
Nuclear capabilities have increased dramatically over the past decade and continue to grow, with the U.S. Department of Defense spending $1.5 trillio…
10 months ago
Life Goes On While Systems Fray — How Do We Make Sense of the Dissonance?
Crises unfold around us daily: gun violence, devastating foreign wars and U.S. democratic norms shattering. And still, we cook dinner and go to work.…
10 months ago
Poet Kevin Young Explores History and Loss in His Newest Collection, "Night Watch"
New Yorker magazine poetry editor Kevin Young has called poetry “the most efficient mode of time travel.” In his new volume of poems “Night Watch,” Y…
10 months ago
Leading Climate and Vaccine Scientists on How to Fight Antiscience
Climatologist Michael Mann and vaccine expert Peter Hotez say we’re in an “antiscience superstorm.” It’s a movement that has upended federal health a…
10 months ago
The Uncertain Future of Bay Area Transit
For the second time in just four months, BART had a systemwide outage on Friday, stranding morning commuters for hours and bringing Bay Bridge traffi…
10 months ago
Would Your Relationship Survive a Shipwreck?
After a whale struck Maurice and Maralyn Bailey’s boat in 1972, the British couple found themselves stranded on a tiny rubber raft in the Pacific Oce…
10 months, 1 week ago
Trump Cuts to SNAP Program Threaten to Increase Hunger Locally, Nationwide
Every month, 5.5 million Californians rely on Cal Fresh, the state’s version of food stamps. But Trump’s $186 billion in cuts to SNAP, the nation’s p…
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