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Push to Make Big Oil Pay for Climate Damage Losing Steam in California Legislature

After climate-driven L.A. fires, “rancid” politics and fear of job loss, gas prices, slows momentum to confront industry.

Capital & Main · May 12, 2025

‘We Are in a Moment of Unparalleled Peril’: An Interview With Naomi Klein

The author and academic spoke with Capital & Main about an apocalyptic future and strategies for survival.

Capital & Main · May 9, 2025

Solar Grants Held Hostage in Pennsylvania Legislature — as Demand Soars

While Solar for All funds languish, the state continues to lag behind most of the nation when it comes to renewable energy.

Capital & Main · May 8, 2025

Inside the Plan to Use Trans Student-Athletes to Push Voters to the Right

National conservative groups such as the Council for National Policy champion anti-trans ideology as a means to flip blue states and districts.

Capital & Main · May 2, 2025

International Students Get an Education in Fear

How Trump’s treatment of foreign students risks budgetary crises for schools and a national brain drain.

Capital & Main · May 1, 2025

Fracking-Powered Crypto Mine in Pennsylvania Shuts Down Without Word to Regulators

State inspectors find site abandoned, raising concerns about pollution from unplugged wells across Appalachia.

Capital & Main · Apr 30, 2025

Trump Promised to Fight for Workers — Instead, He’s Undermined Them

100 days in, the self-styled champion of the working class has delivered layoffs, trade wars and an erosion of worker protections.

Capital & Main · Apr 29, 2025

A Majority of Californians Support Affordable Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants, Polls Show

These findings run contrary to the national political narrative and are fueling advocates’ efforts to safeguard expanded Medicaid benefits in the state.

Capital & Main · Apr 28, 2025

Trump’s Nominee to Head Customs and Border Protection Could Be Implicated in Alleged Cover-Up

Rodney Scott led the U.S. Border Patrol sector in San Diego when officials killed immigrant Anastasio Hernández Rojas.

Capital & Main · Apr 28, 2025

When Scientific Inquiry Meets the Big Chill

From Harvard’s president facing down political pressure to a science foundation scrubbing controversy from its website, the battle for free speech and open inquiry plays out where ideas are meant to thrive.

Capital & Main · Apr 25, 2025