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New Roles for Top Journalists at Capital & Main

Jessica Goodheart, Steve Marble and Cerise Castle bring broad and deep experience to our coverage of inequality and the climate crisis.

Capital & Main · Mar 13, 2024

A Disease Took Her Mobility. Now, at 70, She Could Lose Her Home.

Unable to walk or use her arms, Karen Mickett can work and live on her own. A mass eviction at her Los Angeles apartment complex threatens her fragile independence.

Capital & Main · Mar 13, 2024

Power of the Pulpit: How Conservative Congregations Scale the Church-State Wall to Political Victory

Using money, mass mobilizations and culture wars, church leaders get their members — and sometimes themselves — elected to office.

Capital & Main · Mar 12, 2024

Why Has the White Working Class Embraced Trump?

A new book argues that the disappearance of private sector unions is part of the answer.

Capital & Main · Mar 6, 2024

A Foundry’s Closure Devastated This Tennessee Town But a New Lithium Plant Is Giving It Hope

Etowah could emerge as a major player in energy sustainability and U.S. energy security.

Capital & Main · Mar 5, 2024

In Los Angeles, Shade Most Often Goes to the Privileged 

After the hottest summer on record, officials vow again to make the city’s tree cover more equitable.

Capital & Main · Mar 2, 2024

Gary Tyler’s Journey From Death Row to the Art World

Winner of the Frieze L.A. art fair's Impact Prize uses quilting to reveal the reality of life in prison.

Capital & Main · Mar 1, 2024

Labor Scores a Victory at Cal State Campuses

Rejecting years of unequal treatment, 20,000 low-paid California State University student assistants and workers vote to organize.

Capital & Main · Feb 29, 2024

Another New Mexico Legislative Session Ends, and Again — No New Oil and Gas Reforms

But a tax break for low-producing stripper wells gets slipped into a package with green energy breaks.

Capital & Main · Feb 26, 2024

After Pushback, California Delays Extension of Rewards for Oil and Gas Companies

Opponents say a program that gives valuable credits for making fuels from crops and dairy waste props up fossil fuels companies and pollutes nearby communities.

Capital & Main · Feb 26, 2024