Award-winning author Leila Philip writes about about the profound ways beavers, the fur trade, and Indigenous stories have shaped our history, culture, and environment.

Last year, 20,000 media workers were laid off. In January, more than 500 journalists lost their jobs. Last week, the Los Angeles Times laid off 20 percent of its staff.

In his new book, columnist Michael Harriot presents a more accurate version of US history by placing Black people squarely at the center.

According to several investigations by The Lever, the aircraft manufacturer Boeing has spent years lobbying lawmakers to weaken safety regulations.

We continue our series on the incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans between 1942 and 1946 by marking Fred Korematsu Day.

Last Friday, the Biden administration announced a temporary pause on new natural gas export facilities. Currently, there are 17 planned projects awaiting permits.

The UN top court ordered Israel to take all measures to prevent a genocide in Gaza. Then we'll discuss the war's impact in the West Bank.

Nearly 30 percent of the nation’s students, nearly 14.7 million, were chronically absent in the 2021-2022 school year — missing school at least 10 percent of the time.

R. Kelly, Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump, and other powerful men been convicted of sexual assault. What has changed as a result?

Professor Robert Pape says his in-depth study about the Jan 6 insurrectionists shows that half were doctors, lawyers, corporate executives, and other professionals.

How should we discuss the problems facing the Bay Area, including inequality and the homeless crisis? What will it take to have thoughtful debates about real solutions?

The construction of a dam on the Klamath River, once teeming with salmon, led to a sharp decline. Water is now freely flowing for the first time in 100 years.

Leonard Leo, the conservative who remade the US legal system, is funneling dark money to anti-choice groups whose mission is to ban abortion and mifepristone.

President Biden’s top advisor Brett McGurk is quietly pushing a controversial proposal to reconstruct Gaza after Israel’s assault concludes, according to HuffPost.

Last week, South Africa asked the UN's top court to order Israel to stop bombing Gaza. Israel’s foreign ministry accused South Africa of being "the legal arm" of Hamas.

Since the Supreme Court overturned federal protections for abortion 18 months ago, 15 Republican controlled states have banned the procedure with very few exceptions.

The ultra conservatives on the Supreme Court overturned Roe in June 2022. How did we get here and what is the Republican Party's end game? How far are they willing to go?

What lessons can we learn from the civil rights movement in the fight for climate justice?

On Thursday, the International Court of Justice in The Hague held the first of a two-day hearing in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over the war in Gaza.

The US is losing an average of 2.5 newspapers every week. Last year, 20,000 media workers lost their jobs. What will it take to save and improve the media?

Tamiko Nimura says the US still doesn't know how to talk about Japanese incarceration. Denny Kato gives lectures across the country to ensure this never happens again.

On average, more than 1,000 children have had one or both legs amputated, according to UNICEF. Many of these operations were done without anesthesia.

The San Francisco nonprofit offers $750 a month to people experiencing homelessness. A new study found that after six months, they are less likely to be unsheltered.

Going into the new year, food banks struggle to keep up with demand as funding for pandemic-era programs expires.

We're opening the lines to take your show and guest ideas. How do you want us to cover the election, which will determine whether we deal with the climate crisis.

Israel's military assault on Gaza has killed at least 70 Palestinian journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

There were more than 20,000 layoffs in the media industry in 2023, according to Challenger, Gray and Christmas.

Since the deadly Hamas attacks on October 7, the Israeli military's assault has injured almost 59,000 Palestinians and displaced 1.9M or 85 percent of Gaza's population.

On today's Your Call, we open the phone lines and take your show and guest ideas for 2024.

The Ants & the Grasshopper documentary follows Malawian farmer Anita Chitaya as she visits the US to ask, why aren't you doing more to prevent the climate crisis?

A new documentary, Stripped for Parts, tells the story of Alden Global Capitol, a secretive hedge fund that is decimating what is left of US newspapers.

Nearly one in 10 US adults over 65 have dementia. A new documentary focuses on the struggles and moments of deep connection and love experienced by families around the globe.

Daniel Jaffee writes about the $300B bottled water industry, which is dominated by four multinationals, and the movements fighting the ongoing push to privatize water.

Daniel Jaffee writes about the $300B bottled water industry, which is dominated by four multinationals, and the movements fighting the ongoing push to privatize water.

Hundreds of millions of pounds of pesticides are applied to California crops each year, the largest share of agricultural pesticide use in the United States.

In the documentary Collision, scientists and researchers say whales are being killed by ship strikes all over the world. They are becoming the ocean's road kill.

Corporations in the US are spending millions of dollars on anti-union consultants to stop workers from unionizing, according to a new HuffPost investigation.

Sydney Calkin writes that abortion pills have changed the landscape of abortion care across the world. They're used for more than half of all abortions in the US.

In her new book, environmental reporter Rosanna Xia asks: As climate chaos threatens the places we love, will we finally grasp our collective capacity for change?

In her new book, environmental reporter Rosanna Xia asks: As climate chaos threatens the places we love, will we finally grasp our collective capacity for change?

The World Bank Group enabled the devastation of villages and helped a mining company justify the deaths of endangered chimps, according to a ProPublica investigation.

The tens of billions of chickens, pigs, cows, and other animals raised and slaughtered for food annually account for around 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

In her new book, environmental reporter Rosanna Xia asks: As climate chaos threatens the places we love, will we finally grasp our collective capacity for change?

Robert Weissman says the narrative of a Divided America obscures the fact that Americans agree on a great deal, including the need to confront corporate power.

Dr. Michael Greger says in the United States, the number one risk factor for dying is the American diet.

A new Intercept piece details how Gazans who left home just months ago are experiencing the loss and grief of war from afar.

The Guardian reports that the final text coming out of the climate summit in Dubai will be released tomorrow. Activists say it must include a fossil fuel phase out.

Activists are slamming the latest draft text, which refers to 'emissions reductions' instead of a fossil fuel phase out. They say it must be rejected and improved.

John Koopman spent 25 years as a newspaper reporter but after losing his job, he went from covering the Iraq war to working at a strip club and driving for Uber.

A HuffPost investigation details how Biden’s top advisor Brett McGurk is shaping US policy in the Middle East and the response to Israel’s assault on Gaza.

In his decades-long career as secretary of state and national security advisor, Henry Kissinger orchestrated multiple atrocities to further US geopolitical dominance.

The world’s top five meat and dairy corporations are responsible for more annual greenhouse gas emissions than Exxon, Shell, or BP, according to GRAIN and the IATP.

The Kick Big Polluters Out coalition says at least 2,456 lobbyists from companies like Shell and ExxonMobil gives the industry unprecedented access to decision ma

America’s 20-year military occupation devastated Afghanistan’s environment in ways that may never be fully investigated or addressed.

Argentina’s president-elect Javier Milei denies climate change and opposes abortion. Then we'll discuss a US Supreme Court case that could ban wealth tax proposals.

Daniel Jaffee writes about the $300B bottled water industry, which is dominated by four multinationals, and the movements fighting the ongoing push to privatize water.

More than 27 million people in the US don’t have enough to eat because of pandemic-era benefit cuts, according to a new report from Hunger Free America.

Norman Solomon says 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan set into motion a perpetual state of war that is almost entirely invisible to the American public.

A recent UN report says to keep warming to the 1.5 degrees, countries must slash their emissions by 42 percent by the end of the decade.

A new documentary, Stripped for Parts, tells the story of Alden Global Capitol, a secretive hedge fund that is decimating what is left of US newspapers.

A three-part docuseries on Showtime follows Native families as they seek answers and justice for their murdered and missing loved ones in Montana.

The Elsie Allen Pomo Basket Collection, on display in Santa Rosa, CA, is the only known collection of its size to have been created and curated by Native weavers.

Nathan Thrall's new book tells the story of Israel's occupation of Palestine through the story of one family's tragedy. Many of his book talks have been canceled.

Adam Federamn reports that amid rising geopolitical tensions, the US is expanding its military presence in Greenland, increasing the risk of something going very wrong.

What can we expect from this year's UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, which runs from November 30 - December 12?

Activists took to the streets to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and policies that protect people and the planet over profits. Activists also called for a ceasefire in DC.

As the civilian death toll continues to rise from Israel's military assault on Gaza, Palestinians are suing President Biden for failing to prevent genocide.

In his resignation letter, Josh Paul wrote, "I believe that the response Israel is taking will only lead to more suffering for the Israeli and the Palestinian people."

Professor Cynthia Enloe explores the experiences of women activists during wartime and post-war and what feminism can do to change conflict and violence.

In her new book, environmental reporter Rosanna Xia asks: As climate chaos threatens the places we love, will we finally grasp our collective capacity for change?

Corporations in the US are spending millions of dollars on anti-union consultants to stop workers from unionizing, according to a new HuffPost investigation.

Professor Christopher John Bosso explores the history of SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program, and why benefits have been essential to low-income Americans.

Bangladesh’s labor ministry proposed a minimum wage of $113, which workers say will force them to struggle for basic survival for the next five years.

RAM provides free medical, dental, vision, and veterinary care to hundreds of thousands of people through pop-up clinics across the country.

The White House measure effectively gives Israel a check to purchase $3.5 billion in arms in complete secrecy, according to In These Times.

According to the UN, at least 132 Palestinians, including 41 children, have been killed by security forces and settlers in the past three weeks.

America’s 20-year military occupation devastated Afghanistan’s environment in ways that may never be fully investigated or addressed.

Nearly one month into Israel’s US-backed military assault on the Gaza Strip, some State Department officials say their agency is being sidelined.

Women in California prisons report abuse, but few officers face consequences, even when there is substantial evidence, according to records obtained by the Guardian.

Omar Shakir investigates human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza for Human Rights Watch. He was deported by the Israeli government in November 2019.

Students calling for a ceasefire and speaking up for Palestinian rights are being doxxed and have been told not to use their names for fear of reprisal from employers.

The American Indian Film Institute celebrates its 48th annual film festival with stories traditionally and historically excluded from mainstream media.

At least 20 board members at California public universities have high level ties to the fossil fuel industry, according to a new analysis by Sunstone Strategies.

A new documentary, Stripped for Parts, tells the story of Alden Global Capitol, a secretive hedge fund that is decimating what is left of US newspapers.

Sydney Calkin writes that abortion pills have changed the landscape of abortion care across the world. They're used for more than half of all abortions in the US.

With support from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, journalists around the globe are exposing stories about an unprecedented transfer of wealth.

In June, The California Reparations Task Force announced recommendations on how California can redress over a century of injustice towards African Americans.

Last week, the Fish and Wildlife Service removed 21 species from the list of threatened and endangered species due to extinction. What will it take to stop this crisis?

An Inside Climate News series, Pipe Dreams, explores whether capturing carbon is a climate solution or a dangerous distraction.

The calls for Israel to stop bombing Gaza continue around the globe as death toll continues to rise in Gaza and the West Bank.

Congressman Jim Jordan, a far-right Trump ally, lost his third bid for Speaker of the House. Now what? What can we expect if the far-right regain power in the US?

California Governor Newsom signed hundreds of bills and vetoed dozens on affordable housing, the climate crisis, the price of insulin and much more.

Every year, the Brower Youth Awards recognize the work of six young leaders who are making strides in the environmental movement.

In her new book, environmental reporter Rosanna Xia asks: As climate chaos threatens the places we love, will we finally grasp our collective capacity for change?

Groups that study online hate speech say it has spiked in recent days – not just for Jewish communities, but also for Palestinians, according to USA Today.

A ProPublica investigation details how the conservative legal activist Leonard Leo built a powerful network that transformed the entire judiciary.

The documentary I Am Hope focuses on the first mindfulness program at Frick Impact Academy in Oakland. Students say the classes have improved many aspects of their lives.

On Saturday, the surprise Hamas attack has left over 1,200 Israelis dead. Israel's bombardment of Gaza has killed 900 Palestinians and displaced 270,000.

A new documentary follows Indigenous scientists, elders, and activists as they document the effects of over 500 uranium mines in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.

Hundreds of millions of pounds of pesticides are applied to California crops each year, the largest share of agricultural pesticide use in the United States.

We discuss the Supreme Court's new term that will examine dozens of consequential cases and media coverage of Kevin McCarthy's ouster as House speaker.

Flyaway Productions' new dance performance is an extension of The Decarceration Trilogy, which exposes the devastating effects of the US prison system.

The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane celebrates the extraordinary life of the political activist and musician. The Right to Read highlights the fight for child literacy.

The clothes we buy come at a cost far greater than their prices reflect. Fashion and its supply chain are among the world's largest polluters.

Water For Life follows three activists in Latin America as they face jail and murder while leading movements to safeguard their water from multinational corporations.

Professor Michael Mann says the greatest obstacle to climate action is a sustained, massive disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industry and its abettors.

The Marshall Project and Frontline present two powerful documentaries about U.S. prisons.

The federal government will shut down on October 1st if Congress fails to pass funding legislation.

Research shows that wildfire smoke can have far-reaching impacts long after the blaze is extinguished, including increased risk of cancer, heart attack, and preterm birth.

The documentary profiles members of the 1000 Mile Club, who train all year to run 105 laps around a prison track.

A University of Washington study shows that habitat and weather-pattern changes have led to a huge increase in negative interactions between humans and wildlife.

The food industry is paying dozens of registered dietitians to help sell products and deliver industry-friendly messages on Instagram and TikTok.

According to human rights organizations, during last year’s mass protests in Iran, at least 530 protestors, including 71 children, were killed by security forces.

In the past two years, at least 19 states have lowered their income taxes in ways that primarily benefit their most well-off residents.

"Nursing These Wounds" showcases the impacts of colonization on Filipinx healthcare workers, who make up nearly a third of immigrant registered nurses in the US.

It’s been 20 years since guest Dan Buettner discovered the blue zones – the five places in the world where people live the longest.

The Anti-Defamation League estimates that there are white nationalist groups known as “active clubs” in at least 30 states.

According to the OECD, the US generates more plastic waste than any other country in the world, but only about 6 percent of plastic is recycled.

We’re all regularly exposed to low doses of cancer-causing compounds in food and water, personal care products, and air pollution. Can we stop cancer before it begins?

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the future of San Francisco with journalists from the city. San Francisco has received endless national media coverage claiming crime is out of control and liberal policies are to blame. A federal judge recently banned the city from clearing homeless encampments without offering viable housing opportunities. This week, Governor Newsom said he will intervene to allow the city to continue sweeps, remarking to Politico that he hopes the case makes it to the Supreme Court. A lawsuit last year by the Coalition on Homelessness claims the city routinely dismantles encampments when there is no available shelter space, confiscating and destroying the possessions of homeless people. What are real solutions to the city's homelessness, addiction, and mental health crises?

On this edition of Your Call, Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky will discuss Tyranny of the Minority, a book he wrote with Professor Daniel Ziblatt. They write: “the conditions that gave rise to the Trump presidency—a radicalized party empowered by a pre-democratic constitution—remain in place. We stand at a crossroads: either America will be a multiracial democracy or it will not be a democracy at all. As the civil rights generation passes into history, the work of building a truly multiracial democracy falls upon us. Future generations will hold us to account.”

Scientists predict that by 2100 Joshua Tree National Park will lose almost all of its Joshua tree habitat due to climate change.

Fossil Free Media’s Stop The Oil Profiteering campaign has launched a series of billboards calling out Big Oil for its role in fueling the climate crisis.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss the threat of violence by extremist rightwing groups in the US. Four leaders of the white nationalist group Proud Boys have now been convicted for their role in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and sentenced to between 15 and 22 years in prison. Will long prison sentences deter violence by white nationalist, neo-Nazi and anti-government extremist groups?

Corporations in the US are spending millions of dollars on anti-union consultants to stop workers from unionizing, according to a new HuffPost investigation.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss how we should respond to the urgency of this moment. Every day, Republicans in congress and on the campaign trail are proposing more extreme policies on the climate crisis, abortion, guns, LGBTQ issues, and more. How did we get here? For those of us who want to stay engaged, how do we deal with the barrage of bad news on a daily basis?

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss the Biden administration’s announcement of the first ten prescription drugs, including insulin, that will be subject to price negotiations with Medicare, as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. The White House projects that the negotiations could save older Americans around $100 billion over the next decade, and reducing the cost of these drugs will help more than 9 million Americans. Senior citizens have paid $3.4 billion in out-of-pocket costs for these 10 medications in the last year. Last year, top insurance company revenues reached $1.25 trillion, with profits reaching $69.3 billion in total, according to former Cigna executive Wendell Potter, who now advocates for healthcare reform. What will it take to counter the powerful influence of the pharmaceutical industry and bring down costs?

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss Keys Bag Names Words, a new documentary portraying stories about the personal and global impacts of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Through a series of personal experiences, people around the world share how they have adapted to their diagnoses. As the global population ages, the number of people living with dementia is expected to triple from 50 million to 152 million by 2050, according to the WHO. We also meet the scientists and artists from around the world using creativity, humor, and compassion to lead the way towards hope and resilience.

According to a Propublica investigation, The World Bank Group project in Guinea has left a trail of hunger, displaced and broken families and decimated ecosystems

Hundreds of millions of pounds of pesticides are applied to California crops each year, the largest share of agricultural pesticide use in the United States.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll mark the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. As people gathered in Washington DC to continue the call for civil rights and economic justice last Saturday, they learned about the racist shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, which left three Black people dead. How are people who were there in 1963 reflecting on the past and where we are today?

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss a 60 Minutes investigation that found weapons contractors like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon overcharge the Pentagon on almost everything the Department of Defense buys with taxpayer dollars every year. Almost half of this year’s largest-ever $842 billion dollar military budget will go to weapons contractors. Five Senators are calling on the Defense Department to launch an investigation into the long history of price gouging.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss how extreme Republican policies are fueling anti-LGBTQ violence. The murder of gay dancer O’Shae Sibley, and Laura Carleton, a California business owner who was killed for hanging a pride flag, has put a spotlight on rising extremism against the community. Republican lawmakers in 46 states have introduced more than 650 bills targeting the queer community, according to the Movement Advancement Project. A joint report from the Anti-Defamation League and GLAAD also found more than 350 anti-LGBTQ incidents across 46 states and D.C. How are queer people and their allies fighting back?

Last year, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which included $369 billion in climate funding and $60 billion for environmental justice investments.

Former Chicago Tribune editor Mark Jacob says Republican Party has given up on democracy and is trying to rule America by any means necessary, including fraud and violence.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss a recent report from the Institute for Policy Studies and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Still a Dream: 500 years to Black Economic Equality. Sixty years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Black Americans are still facing a harsh reality of economic inequality and persisting disparities. Without significant changes, it could take African Americans over 500 more years to achieve economic parity with White Americans. The report proposes a range of solutions to narrow the racial economic divide, including a universal jobs guarantee, a massive land and homeownership program, a commitment to individual asset building, policies to the concentration of wealth and power, and targeted reparations.

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the power and influence of the Federalist Society. In a piece for Truthout, law professors Michael Avery and Mark Brodin detail how the society evolved from a small group of disaffected conservative law students into an organization with extraordinary influence over American law and politics. The group has successfully lobbied for years to strike down affirmative action, overturn Roe, and undermine civil rights. Today, there are over 60,000 conservative lawyers and law students involved with Federalist Society activities with chapters in 90 cities, including six Supreme Court justices. The Republican Party has played the long game to take control of the courts. The Democratic Party hasn't had a game. What explains this? And what can be done to counter the influence of this powerful and well funded group?

On this edition of Your Call, we'll discuss a recent American Prospect special report about the business of healthcare. The series examines the "inner workings of monopolies and cartels extracting ever greater sums for ever lousier outcomes, and the policies and protocols pushing doctors and nurses to the brink - and increasingly into labor unions." In the US, the portion of national health expenditures commanded by administrative overhead and waste has grown to an estimated 30 percent, while the portion that pays doctors and nurses has fallen. We look closer at the continuing bipartisan effort to gut the Veterans Health Administration, the growing influence of private equity, drug price gouging, and the retail-ification of healthcare.

Kelowna, a city of 150,000, has became the latest population center threatened by wildfires scorching parts of Canada. At least 1,000 fires are burning across the country.

Thousands of wildfires survivors have been living in shelters, tents, hotels and cars. Last week’s fires destroyed more than 2,200 structures and devastated the historic town of Lahaina.

On Monday, a grand jury in Georgia indicted Donald Trump and his top associates, including Rudolph Giuliani and Mark Meadows, with a sweeping set of criminal charges.

On this edition of Your Call, we' discuss a TIME Magazine feature about Ashley, a 13 year-old soon to be 7th grader from the Clarksdale, Mississippi, who was forced to deliver a baby after she could not access an abortion under the state's extreme ban on the procedure. Ashley was raped by a stranger in her front yard, and waited months to tell her mother Regina what happened. Mississippi has the second highest maternal-mortality rate in the country, with 43 deaths per 100,000 live births; Black women are 4 times more likely to die from pregnancy related complications as white women in the state, according to the Mississippi Department of Health. Abortion is banned or restricted in 17 Republican controlled states. A total of 24 states are expected to ban or heavily restrict access to abortion soon, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Most of these abortion bans include exceptions, but few are granted in practice. A New York Times analysis found that Mississippi has reported no more than two exceptions have been granted.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss a ruling in Texas that would’ve allowed those facing complicated pregnancies to access life-saving abortion care. 13 women and 2 OB-GYNs testified how the state’s abortion ban caused trauma, forced births, and endangered their health. Samantha Casiano, a 29 year old mom of 4, began vomiting from the witness stand as she testified that the state's abortion ban forced her to give birth to a terminal baby. The state appealed the judge's decision and blocked it from taking effect.

On this edition of Your Call, we're discussing a major victory for 16 young activists who said the state of Montana violated their right to a healthy environment. Legal scholars say the ruling is a gamechanger for similar climate change lawsuits across the country. We'll also find out why Project 2025, the Republican plan to dismantle US climate policy, isn't getting more media attention, and why the political press isn’t asking Florida Governor Ron DeSantis about the bleaching and dying coral reefs in the Florida Keys. Later in the show, we’ll discuss the finalists of this year’s Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards.

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll speak with youth activists about the mental health crisis among children and teenagers in the US. More than 60% of young people with major depression do not receive any mental health treatment, according to Mental Health America. A report from the surgeon general’s office also warns that social media is a main contributor to depression, anxiety and other mental health issues among teenagers. What will it take to get young people the help they need?

Last Tuesday, fires fueled by a combination of strong winds from Hurricane Dora and drought conditions tore through Maui, destroying historic town of Lahaina, killing more than 90 people, and displacing thousands.