Silicon Valley’s Outsourcing Addiction
Tech companies use H-1B visas to exploit immigrant labor, but proposed changes could make it fairer for everyone...
PoliticsA collection of 153 posts
Poor Students, Rich Landlords: How Santa Cruz’s Housing Shortage Turned into a Crisis
What do you get when you mix a university’s blind eye with greedy landlords who prey on naïve students?...
While Democrats Whine about Russia, Republicans Are Hacking Electoral Math to Secure Minority Rule for Decades to Come
Trump is a straw man — mass voter disenfranchisement is the GOP’s real crime....
We Asked Bay Area Residents Where Gentrifiers Hang Out
Probably right next to you...
Suburban Resistance: How Trump Is Waking up the Bay’s Bedroom Communities
The Bay Area has had a strong activist community for generations, from the hippies to the Black Panthers to those involved in the modern LGBTQ rights movement....
For All of Elon Musk’s Brilliance, He Can’t Grasp This Fundamental Concept
Elon Musk has been lauded as one of the most visionary minds in Silicon Valley. He champions electric cars, renewable energy and the colonization of Mars (don’t get me started on that), and has been positioned as the modern Steve Jobs....
A Politics Professor Explains How Trump Could Be Forced Out of Office
And why it actually wouldn’t be that hard....
Among the Alt-Right (Photos)
Photographs from the protest in Berkeley—April 27, 2017...
Anti-Semitic Tattoo in Yoga Class
Namaste, alt-right....
RIP “Woke”
How market forces appropriate powerful words and subvert their meaning...
The Oakland Tax Raiders: Why Professional Sports Teams Should Be Publicly Owned
Team owner Mark Davis blackmailed the city into coughing up money for the team time and time again at the expense of Oakland’s citizenry....
Introducing: The Debunker
A new series in which we consider the Bay Area’s status as a haven of conspiracies, and then debunk them...