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The increasingly opaque path for protection adopted by Trump leaves those who fled their homeland with little hope.     ...
11/07/2025

The increasingly opaque path for protection adopted by Trump leaves those who fled their homeland with little hope.

Mohamad, believing that the United States was the safest place for him to go after the Taliban had tortured him, made hi...
11/07/2025

Mohamad, believing that the United States was the safest place for him to go after the Taliban had tortured him, made his way to the Arizona border and crossed onto U.S. soil to request protection.

He has been in limbo in U.S. immigration custody since then.



The increasingly opaque path for protection adopted by Trump leaves those who fled their homeland with little hope.

COLUMN: The potential shrinking of Covered CA and its benefits puts more people at risk, pure and simple. There is absol...
10/07/2025

COLUMN: The potential shrinking of Covered CA and its benefits puts more people at risk, pure and simple. There is absolutely no good to come of it.

Catastrophic federal Medicaid cuts loom on the Golden State’s health care horizon.
10/07/2025

Catastrophic federal Medicaid cuts loom on the Golden State’s health care horizon.


Catastrophic federal cuts loom on the Golden State’s health care horizon.

President Donald Trump’s proposed changes to FEMA and public feud with California Gov. Gavin Newsom could devastate Cali...
09/07/2025

President Donald Trump’s proposed changes to FEMA and public feud with California Gov. Gavin Newsom could devastate California’s disaster response – leaving the state with a shortfall of emergency response resources that could cause an “apocalyptic scenario” for disaster victims.

Our story with ProPublica.

President Donald Trump has floated drastically scaling back the federal government's role in responding to disasters and has implied that his tense relations...

California frequently suffers some of the costliest disasters in the country. Now state officials fear they’ll be left t...
09/07/2025

California frequently suffers some of the costliest disasters in the country. Now state officials fear they’ll be left to face them without federal funding. Our story with ProPublica.

Changes to FEMA could cost the state billions as climate-driven disasters intensify.

In a news conference, Los Angeles Mayor Bass described the Customs and Border Protection action at MacArthur Park as “ou...
09/07/2025

In a news conference, Los Angeles Mayor Bass described the Customs and Border Protection action at MacArthur Park as “outrageous and un-American.”

A community’s rapid response to a heavily militarized raid targeting undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles’ diverse Mac...
09/07/2025

A community’s rapid response to a heavily militarized raid targeting undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles’ diverse MacArthur Park neighborhood helped stave off authorities.

A community’s rapid response to a heavily militarized raid targeting undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles’ diverse MacArthur Park neighborhood helped stave off authorities.

Judge denies bond for Guatemalan man worried about colon cancer as his condition appears to have grown worse in recent c...
08/07/2025

Judge denies bond for Guatemalan man worried about colon cancer as his condition appears to have grown worse in recent court hearings.

“This is the proof I have. This is the blood I’ve lost today.”
08/07/2025

“This is the proof I have. This is the blood I’ve lost today.”

Judge denies bond for Guatemalan man worried about colon cancer as his condition appears to have grown worse in recent court hearings.

Until the petition process is settled by the clerk’s office, the measure cannot be implemented.
03/07/2025

Until the petition process is settled by the clerk’s office, the measure cannot be implemented.

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Capital & Main is an award-winning nonprofit publication that reports from California on the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues of our time. Winner of the 2016 Online Journalist of the Year prize from the Southern California Journalism Awards and a 2017 Best in the West award, Capital & Main has had stories co-published in more than 30 media outlets, from The Atlantic, Time, Reuters, The Guardian and Fast Company to The American Prospect, Grist, Slate and the Daily Beast. Working with top writers, editors and visual artists, we cover income inequality, climate change, the green economy, housing, health care, public education, immigration, race, and criminal justice. Capital & Main is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization.