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The rise of the manosphere is about preserving systems that have historically placed wealthy white men at the top. It’s ...

For more than 20 years, Jessica Johnson lived on the streets of El Sobrante, Antioch and other cities in Contra Costa County. For a while, she slept behind a bank. Sometimes, she’d find respite in a ...

Lisbet wondered if the victim advocate had made a mistake. Lisbet was at the Family Justice Center in San Diego, a social services agency for domestic violence survivors, trying to get help with basic ...

All Nirmal Singh and his wife, Daljit Kaur, wanted were a few groceries from Walmart. But as the older couple drove in circles around the suddenly unfamiliar streets of Fresno, Singh feared they’d be ...

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On a recent evening in downtown Oakland, seven women sat on couches arranged in a circle around a table with flickering candles, passing around a small, pink ball. Each passing of the ball signified ...

This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Circle of Blue, Colorado Public Radio, Columbia Insight, ...

Julie Hendrickson was nervous about her 87-year-old father’s move to a San Diego County assisted living facility and wanted to make sure they both understood the rules and conditions before signing ...

I’ve spent my career protecting kids from Big Tobacco. But you don’t need to be an expert to understand that candy-flavored tobacco products were created to hook kids on nicotine. Tobacco companies ...