SF needs to confront its nonprofit industrial complex
We have designed a system that not only allows bad behavior, it facilitates it.
Ideas, Arguments & Occasional Provocations
Perspectives
A running commentary on politics, public policy, California and the peculiar business of governing. Some observations, a few provocations and the occasional unsolicited suggestion for how we might do things better.
Après APEC
The only thing that matters for San Francisco is what comes next.
Do one thing.
A plea for focus in the shadow of Mount Money.
California's Crisis of Faith
There's a bigger problem lurking behind our big problems.
There's no place like home.
Keeping up appearances in the age of COVID and wildfires.
Why San Francisco Prevails
The City's emblem is a phoenix rising from the ashes.
Welcome to Paradise
Coming to terms with the new abnormal.
Have a problem worth writing about?
Tell us what you're up against.