Imperial County has been pitched a starring role in California’s green energy future as “Lithium Valley,” a place that, despite a history of environmental challenges and inequities, stands to benefit from energy resources that are key to the state’s climate goals. This series examines the competing priorities over energy development, public health and economic growth and whether Imperial Valley’s predominantly Latino communities will ever get the benefits they’ve been promised.
A Capital & Main investigation finds some of LA’s largest landlords skirt anti-discrimination laws that are supposed to protect Section 8 voucher holders. This multi-part series reveals how low-income tenants are excluded amid an ongoing affordable housing shortage and federal cutbacks that threaten U.S. rental assistance programs.
From raids to trade wars, how Trump’s policiesare straining workers
and the economy.
In “Making America Hate Again,” Capital & Main explores the rise of white supremacy in the Trump era.
The Stakes for Workers and the Battle for Their Votes in the 2024 Presidential Election
A 2008 city law was intended to preserve Los Angeles’ residential hotels as safety net housing. But the city has failed to enforce the law, leaving some lower-income Angelenos with nowhere to go amid a homelessness crisis.
This two-year series explores how American
workers across political, geographic, and
racial lines are challenging an increasingly
unequal status quo.
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.
“The Slick” reports on how the fossil fuel industry
is driving climate change and influencing climate policy
in some of the nation’s most important
oil- and gas-producing states.
Sarah Fay, 28, is among the millions
of Americans in precarious housing situations,
sometimes on the brink of homelessness.
A series that looks at the big money behind the assault
on democracy in the states, and efforts by advocates
and ordinary citizens to address the rise in extremism.
