

Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian
- Jul 11, 2019
- 5 min
Outside Sources / 'We all suffer': why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed
For Zoe, the newfound financial security from working in tech does not counterbalance a constant sense of being unsafe in the city. She...


David Talbot
- Jul 11, 2019
- 4 min
Talbot / An American Dystopia
San Francisco has been turned into such a grotesque dystopia in the last several years that even the tech industry that ruined The City...
Vice.com
- Mar 17, 2019
- 1 min
Outside Sources / How to Download the Books That Just Entered the Public Domain
Public Domain Day was yesterday (Jan. 1, 2019) but you were probably hungover, so here’s how to download the tens of thousands of books...


Elliott Negin
- Aug 18, 2017
- 6 min
Energy Department Scientists Barred From Attending Nuclear Power Conference
Edwin Lyman, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, was one of 30 U.S.-based scientists scheduled to speak at the quadrennial...


Glen Martin / California Magazine
- May 8, 2017
- 7 min
Tesla Is Breaking Records Galore. But Is the Eco Hype Overblown?
One of the best ways to flaunt your Earth-hugging bona fides these days is to buy an electric car. It shows you’re willing to put your...


Frank Viviano
- Dec 7, 2016
- 2 min
Opinion / The Disinformation Super Highway
I've been thinking about several "reforms" of the social networking and related Internet universe that are crucially necessary -- and in...