ICE Is Pressuring People in Custody to Self-Deport. Many Are Giving Up. A promise of $1,000 and a free plane ride home tempts many who've grown weary of being locked up in crowded detention centers. Capital & Main · Aug 6, 2025
The Oil Wells Near the Denver Suburbs Worried Her. The Health Risk Alarmed Her Even More. Recently retired Colorado scientist Lisa McKenzie chased the link between fracking and adverse birth outcomes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. Capital & Main · Aug 4, 2025
Border Patrol and ICE Agents Are Arresting U.S. Citizens in Immigration Raids Capital & Main has documented nine Americans who have been held in federal custody after observing or protesting immigration raids. Capital & Main · Aug 1, 2025
Health Care Costs Will Rise for the Californians Least Able to Afford It Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed to changes to Medi-Cal that will make treatment for migrants more expensive — and less common, raising a question: Why? Capital & Main · Aug 1, 2025
Unplanned Parenthood and Other Horrors Confront Medi-Cal Patients Attorney General Rob Bonta has joined a national lawsuit to halt Republicans’ war on Californians. Capital & Main · Jul 31, 2025
Private Equity in Hospice Care Spurs Workers to Strike After 29 months without a contract, a new hospice union resists the financialization of end-of-life care. Capital & Main · Jul 30, 2025
The Reality of Trump’s ‘Beautiful Bill’: A Generation’s Worth of Damage Western Environmental Law Center attorney discusses New Mexico, the president's energy emergency and how we can emerge from the “ruins.” Capital & Main · Jul 29, 2025
Trump Administration Moves to Cut Vital Petrochemical Watchdog, Putting Texans and Others at Risk Amid increasingly intense weather, the Chemical Safety Board is the lone independent agency watching over the Gulf Coast's petrochemical corridor. Capital & Main · Jul 28, 2025
Facing a ‘Federal Occupation’: An Interview with Councilmember Ysabel Jurado The L.A. City Councilmember and daughter of undocumented immigrants speaks about immigration raids and recent LAPD activity. Capital & Main · Jul 25, 2025
Reform Refill: Has Scott Wiener Convinced Gov. Newsom to Rein in Prescription Middlemen? Why a state senator may finally win his battle against powerful pharmacy benefit managers. Capital & Main · Jul 24, 2025
How Robert Reich Teaches — and Why Inequality Is Still the Lesson Director, producer of The Last Class discuss Reich’s skill in the classroom and his career-long focus on economic disparities. Capital & Main · Jul 23, 2025
Broken Promise: How the Trump Administration Dismantled Pathways to Protection for Afghans Even for those who worked alongside the U.S. military, the Trump administration has taken away ways for Afghans to reach safety — and loved ones — in the U.S. Capital & Main · Jul 22, 2025
On the Navajo Nation, the List of Mystery Wells Continues to Grow Old oil wells on the reservation spew chemical-laden water. The feds have done little to honor treaty obligations to clean them up. Capital & Main · Jul 21, 2025
Skater Kid: Behind the Viral Video and Continued Fight for Justice A lone young man taunted an army of immigration cops and a street erupted with the firing of tear gas and crowd-control munitions. Capital & Main · Jul 18, 2025
Capital & Main · Jul 18, 2025 Ford-Owned Battery Plant Drags Heels on Union Vote BlueOval SK workers asked for a union vote six months ago. Trump administration changes could extend delays.
Capital & Main · Jul 17, 2025 Trump and Kennedy Throw Head Start Into Reverse How the administration seeks to use the venerable children's care program as an anti-immigrant weapon.
Capital & Main · Jul 14, 2025 Student Debt Collections Resume, Targeting Borrowers Least Able to Pay With wage garnishments expected later this summer, low-income Americans brace for impact.
Capital & Main · Jul 11, 2025 Tortured by the Taliban, Locked Up in the U.S. The increasingly opaque path for protection adopted by Trump leaves those who fled their homeland with little hope.
Capital & Main · Jul 10, 2025 Will Covered California Land on Life Support? Catastrophic federal cuts loom on the Golden State’s health care horizon.
Capital & Main · Jul 9, 2025 Trump’s FEMA Proposals and Feud With Gavin Newsom Could Devastate California’s Disaster Response Changes to FEMA could cost the state billions as climate-driven disasters intensify.
Capital & Main · Jul 9, 2025 When ICE Came Up Empty A community’s rapid response to a heavily militarized raid targeting undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles’ diverse MacArthur Park neighborhood helped stave off authorities.
Capital & Main · Jul 8, 2025 With a Jar of Blood as Evidence, Detained Man Tells Immigration Judge ‘I am Dying Little by Little’ Judge denies bond for Guatemalan man worried about colon cancer as his condition appears to have grown worse in recent court hearings.
Capital & Main · Jul 3, 2025 Name Game: Did Los Angeles Businesses Use Bait and Switch Tactics to Push a Petition? Hospitality unions claim a ballot-measure proposal blocking Olympics wage hikes rests on fraudulently obtained signatures.
Capital & Main · Jul 2, 2025 ‘It’s Time to Ring the Alarm Bell’ Labor leaders say a May Supreme Court decision could turn the agency that protects workers into a rubber stamp for President Trump.
Capital & Main · Jun 30, 2025 Trained Volunteers Patrol L.A. Streets as ICE Raids Intensify Neighborhood groups monitor immigration enforcement amid rising fear and federal scrutiny.