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Health Care CEO Warns of a System on the Brink

Jarrod McNaughton, who leads Inland Empire Health Plan, says the math points to a crisis California’s safety net can’t sustain.

by Mark Kreidler

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ICE Is Pressuring People in Custody to Self-Deport. Many Are Giving Up.

By Kate Morrissey

A promise of $1,000 and a free plane ride home tempts many who’ve grown weary of being locked up in crowded detention centers.

Is President Trump Sacrificing Infrastructure to His Anti-DEI Obsession?

By Erin Aubry Kaplan

In his first term, Trump promised to build new roads, bridges, airports and railways.
This time he seems more invested in tearing things down.

The Oil Wells Near the Denver Suburbs Worried Her. The Health Risk Alarmed Her Even More.

By Jennifer Oldham

Recently retired Colorado scientist Lisa McKenzie chased the link between fracking and adverse birth outcomes, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Border Patrol and ICE Agents Are Arresting U.S. Citizens in Immigration Raids

By Cerise Castle

Capital & Main has documented nine Americans who have been held in federal custody after observing or protesting immigration raids.

Health Care Costs Will Rise for the Californians Least Able to Afford It

By George B. Sánchez-Tello

Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed to changes to Medi-Cal that will make treatment for migrants more expensive — and less common, raising a question: Why?

Unplanned Parenthood and Other Horrors Confront Medi-Cal Patients

By Mark Kreidler

Attorney General Rob Bonta has joined a national lawsuit to halt Republicans’ war on Californians.

Private Equity in Hospice Care Spurs Workers to Strike

By Jesse Baum

After 29 months without a contract, a new hospice union resists the financialization of end-of-life care.

The Reality of Trump’s ‘Beautiful Bill’: A Generation’s Worth of Damage

By Jerry Redfern

Western Environmental Law Center attorney discusses New Mexico, the president’s energy emergency and how we can emerge from the “ruins.”