POLITICS

Kaiser Permanente Nurses End Strike Without Contract

On February 24, 2026, after four weeks on the picket line, 31,000 nurses and healthcare workers called off their historic strike, tentatively accepting the 21.5% […]

Union members walk the line outside Oakland Kaiser Medical Center on January 29.
photo courtesy of Mark McCullough
SCIENCE & TECH

RFK Flips the Food Pyramid, Tightening SNAP

Released on January 7, 2026, the federal government’s new inverted food pyramid—promoted by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)—serves as the latest guidance on […]

Dietary Food Guidelines for Americans 2025-2030. photo courtesy of public domain
VOICES

One Battle Stereotype After Another

  • Post Author By Hugo Loeb
  • Post Date March 18, 2026

A frontrunner film at the 2026 Academy Awards, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another follows a former left-wing revolutionary trying to rescue his daughter […]

Movie poster for One Battle After Another featuring Leonardo DiCaprio at the center. photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
SPORTS Uncategorized

Behind the American Decade of Sports: Global Power

As of 2026, H.R. 5021: The American Decade of Sports Act has begun moving through Congress, aiming to “strategically leverage” the 2024 to 2034 decade […]

People take part in a demonstration against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ahead of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Games in Milan, northern Italy, on January 31, 2026. A branch of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will help support security operations for the Winter Olympics in Italy, sparking consternation and warnings they were not welcome. (Photo by Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP via Getty Images)
FEATURES

Lurie Ends First U.S. Managed Alcohol Program

Beginning in 2020, operating out of a former hotel in the Tenderloin, a small group of San Francisco’s unhoused residents living with alcohol addiction would […]

SF’s Managed Alcohol Program provided unhoused people in the city struggling with addiction, a free, measured, daily dose of alcohol. photo courtesy of public domain
SCIENCE & TECH

Is Grit the Key to Success?

  • Post Author By Ruby Kilar
  • Post Date March 18, 2026

Most students at Lick-Wilmerding High School have set goals in their lives—to perform well in a class, get accepted to that dream college or achieve […]

Grit: passion and perseverance for a long-term goal. doodle by Noemi Guitron
SPORTS Uncategorized

Sports Betting Is Changing the Game

A meaningless free throw, a last-second field goal or a 9th inning strikeout can now net thousands of dollars through bets, making the games we […]

Sports betting’s boom has turned watching the game into a high-stakes hobby. photo courtesy of public domain