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In the new three-part series, 'We Are Jane Doe,' host Madi Bolaños follows Aliksandria Prout’s fight for justice after being sexually assaulted in a California prison.

Flyaway Production’s new dance-based performance art project explores the intersection of libraries and prisons as opposite ends of the route to freedom.

Protesters gathered at OpenAI’s Dev Day event in San Francisco today to demand that Sam Altman and OpenAI stop contracting with the military and ICE.

In her book, national security journalist Sharon Weinberger says we are in the midst of an era in which tech oligarchs are shaping how – and which – wars are fought.

Mother Jones reports that Salus, CSI, and GEO, which are profiting from Trump's immigration crackdown, are fighting over portions of the Trump-era deportation industry.

The UN’s World Food Programme reports that one in three Afghans is facing acute food insecurity with millions of lacking access to basic needs.

A recent investigation by Grist reveals how unverified claims of Indigenous identity can have serious consequences for Indigenous peoples and climate action.

CalMatters reports that amid a growing nationwide backlash against license-plate cameras, California, for the fifth year running, failed to enact regulations on the technology.

New reporting from ProPublica reveals the alarming rise in deaths from ectopic pregnancies in the US. The numbers are worse in states with abortion bans.

Renee King-Sonnen traces her journey from the wife of a cattle rancher to an internationally-known animal rights activist who saved their herd from slaughter.

SF Chronicle investigations expose how ISFO is now a immigration detention center, and medical failures at ICE detention centers that put detainees’ lives at risk.

In his new book, White Mountain Apache chef Nephi Craig reveals how, after years of substance abuse issues, he discovered the power of food to heal generational wounds.

A new report reveals that oil and gas companies knew by the mid-1970s that methane fueled climate change while peddling the myth of "clean" natural gas.

CalMatters reports that companies backing data center construction are flooding Sacramento with cash, hoping to stop or defang bills that would regulate the facilities.

Journalist Jonathan Mingle writes that this is a sign of a new, disorienting danger in cold mountain zones. The hidden hand behind this is climate change.