San Francisco, while architecturally beautiful, is infamous for attracting unattractive people. It was built for the Vidwats and Kevins of the world — engineers and coders — for whom the only nice ...

On September 5th, Aella, the self-styled “whorelord” of the Bay Area, offered to throw a “reverse gangbang” (one man ...

official endorsements for candidates who don’t want to burn down the city, and for ballot props ...

Enthusiastically backed by DSA-endorsed mayoral nominee Nithya Raman, now up 11 points in the mayoral race, the tax was ...

Jo Boaler, a Stanford professor of math education, is arguably the person most responsible for the new California Math Framework, a set of curriculum recommendations that advocate against teaching ...

“World War III will be a guerrilla information war, with no divisions between military and civilian participation.” — Marshall McLuhan, 1970 Ali Baba and the forty bots. A little earlier this month, ...

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“This isn’t about gossip, it’s about asymmetric social warfare,” a shopkeeper at Art of Play, in Brooklyn, tells me before going back to helping people play with various adult toys. It’s Tuesday night ...

Following Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin’s leaked admission that she wants to prosecute minor staffers around Trump in order to — she said out loud, to an audience of other humans — scare young ...

The battle over drug tourism, and the decay of America’s urban core, tends to bifurcate in two views: 1) jail for everyone, 2) literally nothing to see here – the problem is not even happening. Not ...

John Ketcham is director of Cities at Manhattan Institute. Last month, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that he will take “aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property ...

Wikimedia's Movement Strategy, which launched in 2017 with a plan to fund Wikimedia "in perpetuity" with its Wikimedia Endowment, was a significant pivot from Wikipedia’s mission: "where Wikipedia had ...