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.

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.

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 ...

Dec 18, 2024 · As President-elect Donald Trump takes direct aim at federal climate policy, states and their attorneys general are preparing to fight back. In California, the governor has asked legislators for $25 million to fight off any effort by Trump to …

Aug 6, 2024 · Record Heat, Rising Sea Levels: The Stakes for the Climate Couldn’t Be Higher in 2024 Elections. From Biden vs. Trump to an oil well referendum in California, climate change debate is all over the ballot in federal, state and local contests.

Dec 20, 2024 · Even before Election Day, environmental groups were suggesting ways that the Biden administration could protect the president’s climate agenda from an incoming president who has vowed to increase fossil fuel production and repeal major climate initiatives. Since then, Biden has taken many of those steps — backing a proposal to curtail public financing for oil and gas projects around the ...

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.

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 ...

Oct 30, 2024 · In 2021, for the first time in 20 years, the civil engineers group raised the nation’s letter grade to a C-, saying, “This is good news and an indication we’re headed in the right direction, but a lot of work remains.”. But now, with the presidential election just days away, the fate of those initiatives — and the money and tax credits they generate — may well be settled at …

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.