This story is republished with permission of Mother Jones. I was doom-scrolling on X a few months ago when a video about ...

Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Sam Singer in 2013, with the media he loves to ...

The Alameda County registrar of voters is the most important local official whom hardly anyone knows and yet everyone gets mad at every couple of years. That’s a slight exaggeration, but any snafu in ...

Morgan Taylor: “Definitely feeling nervous ahead of the election. On a national level, I have family in lots of different states, so I’m hearing not just the local bubble and the excitement around my ...

Mia Guzman, 12, left, celebrates Día de los Muertos with her mother, Noemi Garcia, 45, and aunt, Ericka Garcia, 47, at the Día de los Muertos Festival in Fruitvale on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024. The three ...

A coalition of transit advocacy nonprofits solicited more than 160 Bay Area candidate’s responses before elections. Here’s a ...

Ray Bobbitt, whose African American Sports and Entertainment Group has a deal with Oakland to buy and redevelop the Coliseum, ...

In a change of plans, the large homeless shelter inside the Lake Merritt Lodge will move to a brand new apartment building in ...

The Keller Fire and an upcoming ballot measure have reignited the conversation around cutting down the nonnative California ...

Labor organizations representing city workers are spending heavily on the D1 and D3 City Council races and the campaign for ...

Over the summer, the Takalam media program presented an opportunity for Sharif to tell her story through film. The 2024 ...

A mailer encourages voters to reject a slew of local and state propositions, including one supporting same-sex marriage.