Capital & Main - Investigating Power & Politics is an award-winning online publication that reports from California on the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues of our time.

Capital & Main is an award-winning online publication that reports from California on the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues of our time. Our mission is to expose threats to the public interest and advance progressive ideas and policies in the nation’s most populous state and one of the world’s most influential centers of commerce, culture and technology.

Jan 24, 2025 · 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.

1 day ago · In the 2024 election, Donald Trump was favored by lower-income and middle-income voters who cited their own economic hardship and expressed confidence that he would improve their lives. It was a major turnaround from the 2016 election, when Trump lost among voters earning less than $100,000. Yet Trump’s pick to head the White House Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, has been a ...

Peter Hong. Editor-in-Chief. Hong served for 15 years as a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, where he covered numerous beats for the Metro and Business sections, as well as reporting from Washington, D.C., Iraq, Taiwan and various U.S. states.He produced major investigative pieces on Los Angeles city and county government, and wrote news, analytical and feature stories on race and culture ...

COLUMNS THE ARC Erin Aubry Kaplan examines the persistent barriers to racial justice and opportunities for progress in an era of receding black presence

Jan 31, 2025 · Under a New Law, California Schools Hope Insurance Changes Lead to More Student Therapy. In areas like California’s rural Shasta County, school campuses may be the most effective places to care for children’s mental health needs, and such care will now be covered by insurance.

Oct 23, 2023 · Call center workers in Hattiesburg and Bogalusa, Louisiana, first began organizing in 2017 with Call Center Workers United, an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America. Last year, workers gained momentum and organized multiple one-day strikes.By this June, workers in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky and Virginia were participating in strikes and organizing at their jobs.

This series explores how public schools are now a battleground in the culture war of U.S. politics. Capital & Main will report from the classrooms and communities being divided as school boards and legislatures increasingly adopt book bans, limit the teaching of race and history and pass policies targeting gender identity in schools.

Jun 1, 2023 · That assessment appears in the peer-reviewed journal OneEarth, by Marco Grasso, a professor at the University of Milan, Italy, and Richard Heede, principal investigator for the Climate Accountability Institute.The authors call for “reparations” to those harmed by climate change. The money would go to public authorities who are often the first responders to the vast and expensive damage ...