The California Report Magazine

Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.

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She Strived to Be the Perfect Mom, and Landed i...
Motherhood was going great for Lisa Abramson, until the walls started talking to her. But being in the hospital made her feel more crazy.
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Families Pulling Together to Confront Life’s Ob...
'Surrogate Family’ Supports Migrant Mom, How Did Raymond Mata in a Mass Grave, Attack of the Nutria, Saying Goodbye to Paradise.
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17andMe
Daley Dunham was a junior at UC Berkeley when he decided to donate sperm. He likened it to donating blood — an opportunity to do something good for a person in need. Except when you donate blood, you don’t get a tidal wave of children crashing into you...
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Do You Really Want to Know? One Man’s Search fo...
Forty years ago, preacher Jim Jones ordered hundreds of his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch. One man unravels the tangled family history that binds him to that tragedy.
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Veterans Day Special: Californians and The Viet...
‘The Green Machine’, ‘Ode to a Vietnam Vet’
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Women Finding Their Political Voice
First Time Candidates Reflect on ‘The Long Run’, Millennial and Retiree Candidates Swap Advice, Hotel Workers Push for ‘Panic Buttons’, Golden State Plate: The Martini Story, Straight Up, With a Twist
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Spooky Tales of Ghosts and California History
The Ghost of Mary Pleasant, Haunted Lighthouse, Fishy Origins of Cioppino, An Orphan’s California Dream
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SPECIAL: Her Double Life
A San Jose woman wonders if it's time to tell the truth.
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One Year After Firestorm, Some Scars, Some Hope
Caregivers Save Lives But Lose Everything, KPFZ: Lake County’s Wildfire Lifeline, ‘A Little Broken,’ Fire Baby Turns One
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Ballet Star Moves Past Pain for a New Stage: Sc...
Miko Fogarty left her dream dance job with a top company after just one year. Two years later, she’s on her way to becoming a doctor - and overcoming alleged sexual abuse at the hands of her former coach.
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First-Time Women Candidates React to Kavanaugh ...
Aisha’s Wahab’s ‘Long Run,’ Terisa Siagatonu’s Moment on Earth, My Carbon Footprint, A Writer’s CA Dream, Alice Coltrane’s ‘Spiritual Eternal’
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Life Inside Tijuana’s Migrant Center
Reporter’s Notebook from Tijuana, The French Dip’s Roots, Seeking a Seat on the School Board, Cannabis Meds at School, The Forest Transforms Me
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Golden State Plate: Iconic California Recipes
Green Goddess Dressing, Poetry of Climate Change, California’s Original Detention Center, A Granddaughter’s Message to “Ojiichan,” Sign Wars on the Campaign Trail
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#MeToo Unmasks the Open Secret of Sexual Abuse ...
Yoga community struggles to rein in sexual misconduct, abuse in its ranks; How wildfire increases poverty; 92-year old artist says planet Earth is ‘screwed’
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Rethinking Masculinity… At Summer Camp
Sons & Brothers Camp, Betty Valencia’s ‘Long Run’, The (W)hole Story on Mt. Shasta, Lured From Germany By SF ‘Sound’
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Childhood Trauma Can Mean Early Death. This Cal...
Science shows childhood trauma leads to poorer health later in life, mentally and physically. But there are ways to intervene that can heal the wounds of the past for a parent, and safeguard a daughter’s future.
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Fleeing Conflict, and Finding Self
Illegal Love in Uganda, The Damaging Effects of ‘White Voice,’ One ‘Lost Boy’s’ Journey Out of Sudan
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Wildfires Spark Fear, Anxiety for Survivors
Mexican Restaurant Feeds Fire Victims, Coping With Fire Trauma In Santa Rosa, Music Giants Talk ‘Downey to Lubbock’, A Separation Still Painful After 76 Years
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Teen Poet to Migrant Kids: I Feel Your Pain
My Dad Spent My Childhood Behind Bars, Summer Camp for Refugee Kids, Asian American Actresses Rewrite the Script, My Mom’s Teenage Dream
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Family Separation Today … and 40 Years Ago
Mom Seeks Refuge at the Border; Healing from Family Separation Four Decades Later; No One Recognizes this Hong Kong Star in Berkeley; Hello to Coachella, Grass Valley and Nevada City!
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Going Back to 1993: Unpacking the Internet, The...
We've come a long way from a 6-foot-tall computer. But the internet hasn't solved everything it promised to. This week we visit the Computer History Museum in Mountain View to muse on how the internet has changed our lives.
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SPECIAL: The Leap: Little Girl Lost
A Mother Launches a Painful Search After Her Ex-Husband Abducts Their Daughter
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Young and Homeless … But Dreaming Big
On Her Own at 17, LGBTQ and Homeless, Finding the Gay Mecca, Family Separations Open Old Wounds
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Discovering Some of California’s ‘Hidden Gems’
Black Chasm Cavern; Foster’s Bighorn; Back Dancing and Dynamite Society; Valley Relics Museum; Forestiere Underground Gardens
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From a Tiny Oaxacan Restaurant in the Central V...
A Taste of Oaxaca in Madera; My Big Brother’s CA Dream; High School Behind Bars; Woodworking for the Blind
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