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The Data Center Surge Is Slowing the Phaseout of Fossil Fuels

Amid health concerns, residents in a Virginia community push back on proposed gas plant.

Capital & Main · Feb 13, 2025

Undocumented Workers Prepare to Clean Up L.A.’s Fires Amid ICE Raids

As fear mounts, day laborers risk arrest to help the city rebuild and support their families.

Capital & Main · Feb 12, 2025

Labeling Cartels and Gangs as Terrorists Could Hurt the People Fleeing Them

Even those robbed by a cartel or gang can be denied asylum for providing support to a group the U.S. considers a terrorist organization.

Capital & Main · Feb 11, 2025

Survivor of Argentina’s Military Atrocities Sees Popular Resistance to Trump as the ‘Only Way’

Abducted by soldiers as a student in Argentina, author and human rights activist Alicia Partnoy hopes young people stand up for migrant rights.

Capital & Main · Feb 6, 2025

Trump’s Budget Director Pick, on Path to Confirmation, Could Hurt Millions of Working-Class Americans Including MAGA Voters

Russell Vought has long proposed deep cuts to social programs like Head Start and SNAP that benefit lower-income people, who were key to Trump's election in both red and swing states.

Capital & Main · Feb 6, 2025

Trump Vows to Cut Oil and Gas Rules as New Mexico Looks to Fight Back 

The state’s challenge: How to police an industry that generates a third of the state budget and a third of its greenhouse emissions.

Capital & Main · Feb 5, 2025

As Activists Mobilize Against Drilling, Oil and Gas Operators Sour on Colorado 

Emboldened residents organize to halt Big Oil’s march toward the Rocky Mountain suburbs.

Capital & Main · Feb 4, 2025

Trump’s Weapons of Choice: Exclusion, Incarceration and Mass Deportation

A time of fear dawns as the administration calls in the military and promises immigration sweeps.

Capital & Main · Feb 3, 2025

Today’s Immigration Raids Ignore a Looming Global Crisis: Not Enough Workers

As California farmers wonder who will grow and harvest our food, falling birthrates are likely to soon force nations to compete for immigrants.

Capital & Main · Jan 31, 2025

Fear and Expulsion: Under Trump, History Is Poised to Repeat Itself

The U.S. has repeatedly tried to remove nonwhite people from society, often leading to generational trauma.

Capital & Main · Jan 31, 2025