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The former Berkeley mayor's record of accomplishments from civil rights activism to groundbreaking political initiatives to far-sighted community economic development programs to global solidarity and elder statesman leadership could fill volumes.

Most unhoused people are from in state and desire to find housing, while Black and older people are disproportionately affected

Three million children could be affected as the largest investment in child care in U.S. history expires in September.

Rising tide in Capital’s sewage drains

Those concerned with antisemitism must understand what it truly means to challenge it as part of movements for justice.

State lawmakers worked hard to convince utilities and construction union members that they would not end up on the chopping block.

The serial ice ages that erased and repopulated Canada like a palimpsest have yielded to a fire age that is rewriting history with flame. An interglacial period has morphed into an epoch in its own right. Call it the Pyrocene.

"Pausing disenrollment was a tremendous act of social welfare; restarting it is criminal," tweeted a single-payer advocate who helps people enroll in Medicaid.

How the Espionage Act of 1917 is the most important yet least understood law threatening freedom of the press in modern American history.

As Black men in prison, we live the tension between celebrating the abolition of slavery and struggling inside the system that replaced it.