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States that have banned abortion are the same ones that do the least to help pregnant people and new parents make ends meet, according to In These Times.

There have been a slew of closures and layoffs in the media industry. Since 2004, weekday newspaper circulation has plummeted by 57 percent.

On this edition of Your Call, San Francisco journalists will discuss the city’s addiction, homeless, and mental health crisis.

San Francisco has received national media coverage claiming that crime is out of control and the city is lost, but what do the facts say? What are solutions to the city's challenges?

On this edition of Your Call, we speak with Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of How Democracies Die, a bestselling book that offered a framework for understanding these volatile times.

In their forthcoming book, The Tyranny of the Minority, they explain how the US Constitution makes us uniquely vulnerable to attacks from within, by enabling minority rule. They argue the US will either become a multiracial democracy or cease to be a democracy at all.

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the latest debt ceiling agreement between President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

The plan targets the most vulnerable people in the country by expanding work requirements for recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Republicans also successfully fought to cut $20 billion of the $80 billion in new IRS funding approved by Democrats last year to go after wealthy tax dodgers, according to the Washington Post. Republicans say tax increases and cuts to the growing military budget are off the table.

After the Taliban takeover, thousands of desperate Afghans have taken an arduous and perilous journey through central America to reach the US.

In the first quarter of this year, 268 people have died from accidental overdoses, according to the medical examiner. What explains San Francisco's worsening drug crisis?

On this edition of Your Call, psychiatrist Judith Herman discusses her new book, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice.

Dr. Herman argues that the first step toward a better form of justice is to ask survivors what would make things as right as possible for them. She examines how the conventional retributive process fails to serve most survivors, and offers an alternative vision of justice as healing for them and their communities.

We'll discuss the recent sexual abuse verdict against Donald Trump, the latest revelations about Catholic clergy abuse, and more.

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss ongoing negotiations over the debt ceiling.

On April 25, House Republicans passed a bill that would put more than 10 million people at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage, more than one million at risk of losing SNAP benefits, and roughly one million children at risk of losing income assistance, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The bill would also cost states, tribal nations, and local communities $1.3 trillion in funding for vital services like schools, transit, and aid to families in crisis.

The White House has privately proposed closing tax loopholes as part of a broader deal, but Republicans are refusing to support a bill unless President Biden agrees to spending cuts, according to the HuffPost.

The government could default on its debts as early as June 1 if Congress does not reach a deal.