• EarthTalk Q&A: The New Green Pope

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk On April 21, 2025, Pope Francis, known for his inclusivity to various communities worldwide, passed away after decades of serving as Pope of the Catholic church. Pope Leo XIV was inducted shortly thereafter, and with Pope Francis’s tremendous legacy of activism aiding the...
  • Rising Risk Factors

    Family Features While medical advances have helped people live longer with cardiovascular diseases, many of the risk factors that lead to these diseases continue to grow. Fueled by ongoing increases in high blood pressure, obesity and other major risk factors, heart disease continues to kill more people in the...
  • Worksite immigration raids are supposed to free up jobs for citizens. Here’s what really happens

    Nigel Duara & Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Carlos was pulled out of a deep sleep by a series of frantic phone calls one Friday morning in June. By the time he arrived at a downtown Los Angeles garment factory sometime after 10 a.m., his brother was in chains. Agents from a constellation...
  • ¿Cuánto costará lograr el sueño americano en 2025?

    La nueva “bella y hermosa” ley de presupuesto, impuestos, seguridad fronteriza destina más de 170,000 millones de dólares en materia de la política de deportaciones, contratación de agentes y unas 700 millas del muro fronterizo. Pero uno de los aspectos que ha pasado desapercibido es que incrementa el precio...
  • Move along: Targeting homeless Californians. They were repeatedly ticketed because of their homelessness. What did it change?

    Marisa Kendall, Aaron Schrank & Lisa Halverstadt CalMatters Deadra Walicki has lived in the same spot for more than a decade: a cracked patch of asphalt in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley, squeezed between a boarded-up grocery store and Amtrak tracks so close that passing trains shake the ground beneath her tent. The...
  • Attention, US Citizens: Yes, You Can Now Be Deported

    American Community Media & They See Blue On June 11, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a memo that sent ripples through immigrant communities across America. It quietly declared denaturalization — the revocation of U.S. citizenship from naturalized citizens — a “top-five priority.” While the memo frames the policy as...
  • Usos Esotéricos del Péndulo

    El péndulo es un instrumento muy simple, y a la vez muy sensible y poderoso; capaz de leer e interpretar la energía que emana de nuestro subconsciente. Capaz de discernir las respuestas y verdades, que se encuentran en lo más profundo de cada uno de nosotros, a las cuales...
  • EarthTalk Q&A: Tidal Energy

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Tidal energy—generated from the natural rise and fall of ocean tides—is one of the most predictable forms of renewable energy. Unlike wind or solar, which fluctuate based on weather, tides follow gravitational cycles that are easy to forecast. Despite this reliability and growing...
  • Q&A With Danny Burgos: From the Medical Field to the Stage

    Arturo Hilario El Observador Danny Burgos first spoke with me in early 2016 as he was working on the national tour of the Beauty and the Beast musical in San Jose. Then he was a fresh-faced performing artist straight out of college who had just joined a touring Broadway...
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