What ancient healing sanctuaries can teach us about the benefits of art
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,…
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Essay: My eviction story and the new bill that imperils housing for those most at risk of losing it
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…
Jerry Garcia wasn’t political. But the Grateful Dead symbolized defiance in a deeply political moment
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…
Project Censored dispatch: The militarization and weaponization of media literacy
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…
Analysis: Why California’s attorney general must continue the investigation into OpenAI
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…
Looking back: Buried in sex, murder and monsters here in Sacramento
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…
How knowing and collecting art builds your cultural capital
By Angie Eng One late morning on a winter day at the Museum of Modern Art, my friend stood in front of a Cy Twombly…
Project censored dispatch: Framing the feed – how social media shapes our interpretation of reality
By Shealeigh Voitl In 2024, Project Censored introduced Beyond Fact-Checking: A Teaching Guide to the Power of News Frames to critically analyze narrative strategies media…
Essay: Yes, I am angry. But I also have hope
By Faye Wilson Kennedy The first 100 days of the Trump administration were marked by significant actions that affected individuals both domestically and internationally, as…
Essay: Why talking about mental health matters in Native communities
By Angelina Hinojosa Every year when May rolls around and people “observe” Mental Health Awareness Month, it hits differently for me. Up until a few years ago,…
Project censored dispatch: Resisting digital gatekeeping by promoting algorithmic literacy
A new website promotes tech industry accountability and public understanding By Andy Lee Roth and Kate Horgan Algorithms are the building blocks for a host…
Essay: Sacramento League of Women Voters weighs in on federal cuts, threats to Medicaid and ‘doublespeak’ around election law
By Charlene Jones & Lilli DuVal, Co-Presidents of Sacramento County’s LWV The League of Women Voters of Sacramento County, or LWVSC, respects voters’ decisions in…
Philanthropy in the abyss: Why we need to give when things fall apart
By Angie Eng It takes a crisis to uplift us from the abyss. When despair engulfs, human kindness emerges. Contrary to a Hobbesian world vision…
Project Censored dispatch: Technogarchy goes to Washington
The “Muskification” of Meta and the free speech, fact-checking charade By Mischa Geracoulis and Mickey Huff On January 7, 2025, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced…
Analysis: No, the Resnicks do not own ‘most of California’s water’
The Newsom mega-donors and champions of the bitterly opposed Delta Tunnel are indeed controversial, but facts still matter By Dan Bacher As a longtime researcher…
Essay: LWV presidents in California and across the nation demand Congress stand up to presidential overreach, actions of DOGE
By the state presidents of the League of Women Voters The League of Women Voters of the United States, or “the League,” along with our…
Essay: Ranked choice voting for Sacramento’s elections for school boards and city council
By Jose Navarro My support for Ranked Choice Voting started with my experience following local political campaigns as President of Sacramento’s Latino Democratic Club. In…