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When Jerry Brown sounds like Donald Trump

Scott Shafer’s conversations with former Gov. Jerry Brown are running as a series on KQED, and the section on his work in Oakland, which...

How ICE treats transgender people — a horror story

Lexis Avilez thought she was going home on Christmas. It seemed, she later said, like a miracle when Yuba County sheriff’s deputies took her Dec....

The violence of wealth-hoarding

Your ambivalence is violence Your paralysis is more homelessness Your hoarding creates our  impoverished life story I have shared with descendants of wealth-hoarders, land stealers who know that...

Special report: Bay Area academics visit Kurds in Northern Syria

Editor's Note: This story by our Foreign Correspondent columnist Reese Erlich is accompanied by photographs by Beth LaBerge. In Laberge's words, "I spent two...

For unhoused people, every day is an emergency

“We can’t take all that shit with us in this one hefty bag…” “But mama, this is my favorite pair of jeans.” “I don’t give a...

An open letter to Marc Benioff about homelessness

Dear Marc Benioff: A few months ago you announced the launch of a $30 million study of homelessness: Benioff Homelessness and Housing initiative . As you launch...

Outside Lands 2019, day 3: Paul Simon, Kacey Musgraves, and 90,000 friends

Yep, 90,000 people packed into Golden Gate Park on Sunday to revel in musical styles as various as calypso, throwback r&b, tribal soul, new...

The ‘Trump Doctrine’ is sinking fast

Tehran resident Dariush is exactly the kind of person that the Trump Administration claims to be supporting. He is a middle-class businessman who hates...

Immersive Jazz Age decadence in ‘The Speakeasy: Age of Scofflaws’

ONSTAGE One hundred years ago the US Senate bowed to the pressure of temperance activists and passed the National Prohibition Act. It was one...

The facts about vaping emerge

For every adult who uses vaping to quit cigarette smoking, 80 young people will take up the deadly habit after starting with products like...