Rowdy Girl: Confessions of a Vegan Cattle Rancher
Renee King-Sonnen traces her journey from the wife of a cattle rancher to an internationally-known animal rights activist who saved their he...
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20 of 125 episodesSF Chronicle exposes ICE’s inhumane treatment of detainees in CA
SF Chronicle investigations expose how ISFO is now a immigration detention center, and medical failures at ICE detention centers that put de...
The US at 250: A Native Perspective on "Our Knives Will Save Us"
In his new book, White Mountain Apache chef Nephi Craig reveals how, after years of substance abuse issues, he discovered the power of food...
How big oil manufactured the myth of "clean" natural gas
A new report reveals that oil and gas companies knew by the mid-1970s that methane fueled climate change while peddling the myth of "clean"...
Big tech spends big to fight California data center regulations
CalMatters reports that companies backing data center construction are flooding Sacramento with cash, hoping to stop or defang bills that wo...
Nepal glacier disaster intensifies calls for climate justice
Journalist Jonathan Mingle writes that this is a sign of a new, disorienting danger in cold mountain zones. The hidden hand behind this is c...
The US at 250: A Native Perspective on PCRM's Native Food for Life
PCRM’s Native Food for Life program works with Native communities to use their ancestral plant-based foods to treat, reverse, and prevent co...
The Authoritarian Playbook: Stealing Elections, American Style
Voting rights attorney David Walbert says Trump is doing everything possible to rig the midterms for Republicans. What can people do to ensu...
The US at 250: A Native Perspective on CA's Land Back movement
California has returned over 100,000 acres of land to Native tribes and plans to return at least 7.5 million more. How are tribes stewarding...
"Plastic Inc." exposes how Big Oil is fueling plastic production
In her new book, journalist Beth Gardiner reveals how Big Oil is investing billions to increase plastic production, despite the immense heal...
How Trump is trying to take over the midterms
ProPublica investigations reveal that despite intense White House pressure, only a few dozen noncitizens have been prosecuted for voting, wi...
‘American Doctor’ follows three doctors fighting to save lives in Gaza
The new documentary, ‘American Doctor,’ follows the journey of three US doctors from saving lives in Gaza to fighting for the patients and c...
The Authoritarian Playbook: The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism
In his new book, "The Nerd Reich," journalist Gil Durán argues that Silicon Valley has led a decades-long campaign to replace elected govern...
The Texas ‘ghost’ tribe that got millions in climate funding
A recent investigation by Grist reveals how unverified claims of Indigenous identity can have serious consequences for Indigenous peoples an...
The human cost of Taliban rule in Afghanistan
The UN’s World Food Programme reports that one in three Afghans is facing acute food insecurity with millions of lacking access to basic nee...
Immigrants caught in the fight over lucrative ICE contracts
Mother Jones reports that Salus, CSI, and GEO, which are profiting from Trump's immigration crackdown, are fighting over portions of the Tru...
Community members protest closure of Hospitality House’s 6th St Center
Yesterday, residents, advocates, and community leaders held a rally outside the Sixth Street Self-Help Center in SOMA to call on SF Mayor Lu...
SF Mayor terminates contract with Hospitality House’s Sixth St Center
After 20 years of providing services to unhoused people in SOMA, Mayor Lurie is closing the center as a part of his plan to "revitalize" the...
The Authoritarian Playbook: How to be a dissident in an age of fear
In their new book "On Courage," Ami Fields-Meyer and Julia Angwin provide a roadmap for authoritarian resistance based on interviews with ov...
US Forest Service is spraying glyphosate in California forests
Investigative journalist Nate Halverson reports that the US Forest Service and timber companies are using record amounts of glyphosate in Ca...