When I heard Sacramento Central Labor Council Executive Director Fabrizio Sasso speak at the first No Kings Rally, his remarks stood out immediately. He offered…
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By Dan Walters for CalMatters We Californians know, or should know, that while living in this state has many positive aspects, we are paying through…
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By David Eagle Imagine ordering your favorite entree at the neighborhood restaurant you’ve gone to for years. It’s the same dish, off the same menu,…
By Alexis Fitzpatrick I recently overheard a parent discussing how AI makes evenings so peaceful by reducing the toil of her child’s evening math homework by providing…
Last week, the daughter of the late, great comedic actor Robin Williams felt compelled to tell bored, tone-deaf idiots to stop sending her A.I.-generated images…
By Sonya Frausto, PharmD I wish I could say that my perspective is unique, but unfortunately, it is not. I spent years working at Rite…
By Jim Berk for CalMatters Whether by design or by quiet submission to a rapidly-evolving digital landscape, the world’s largest social media companies have allowed…
For Sacramento creatives — or anyone who thinks that artists have a right to make a living off of their work — there was just reason to cheer a landmark court…
In the last four months, the U.S. veterans’ community has been going through the same shock to the system that the American journalism community experienced…
By Angie Eng In ancient Greece, if an Athenian statesman fell ill, he might enter an Asclepieia sanctuary where patients were treated with art, music,…
By Sarah Grace Kubasek When my family was evicted in 2023, I believed we had failed. We were living out of our car, relying on…
In early August, news broke that Wondery, a major production company for true crime podcasts, laid off 110 employees, with its parent company Amazon moving…
By Jim Newton for CalMatters Excerpted from “Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening” by Jim Newton. Copyright © 2025. Available from Penguin Random…
By Nolan Higdon and Sydney Sullivan This Dispatch is informed by our forthcoming 2025 article, “Media Literacy in the Crosshairs: NATO’s Strategic Goals and the Revival of…
By Orson Aguilar and Catherine Bracy for CalMatters Just days after abandoning its planned conversion to a for-profit entity and proclaiming it would remain a nonprofit, OpenAI…
Even a curator for the Crocker Art Museum wrote for the pulps By Kimberly A. Edwards On any given day, you’ll find my phone clicking…