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Our publisher’s ‘must-read’ history of US protests is out now!

48 Hills - July 7, 2020

"Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States" by 48 Hills publisher and arts editor Marke B is...

Let your mind take ‘a darling walk’ through Creativity Explored’s latest

Maddy Clifford - July 6, 2020

We’re more than halfway into 2020, and yet, many of us are still adjusting to major changes in our daily routines. For some of...

News + Politics

COVID is devastating the US economy—while the very rich get very richer

Tim Redmond - July 5, 2020

My poor puppy hates the fireworks. They’re loud and unpredictable. There are many theories, some of them pretty out there, as to why so...

Business + Tech

Appeals Court upholds Prop. C in major win for local tax measures

Tim Redmond - July 1, 2020

Less than a week after hearing oral arguments on the validity of the city’s big-business tax to fund homeless programs, a unanimous panel of...

Lit

A laser, a dog, and grape gum lead to feminist superpower in ‘Equality Girls’

Emily Wilson - June 30, 2020

Aya de León, author and lecturer in the African American Studies department at UC Berkeley, reads a lot of books to her 10-year-old daughter....

News + Politics

Uber, Lyft drivers take message to CEO’s house

Garrett Leahy - June 25, 2020

For longtime Uber and Lyft driver Hector Castellanos, the fight for classification as an employee under AB5 is personal. For eight months after an...

Party Radar

ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2020: The protests, the parties (online), the poignant posters

Marke B. - June 25, 2020

I've stayed in all Pride Week so far—and I'm already exhausted! Well, I was, until putting together this list of recommendations. Most of them...

Housing

Homeless sweeps come back to the Tenderloin

Tiny - June 22, 2020

“They came by and took our tents, said we had to go and not come back or we would be arrested -- you know a...

News + Politics

Foreign Correspondent: Lessons from the Cuban police

Reese Erlich - June 22, 2020

A group of muscular cops carrying semi-automatic pistols and batons slowly move through the crowd at the end of an outdoor salsa concert. My...

News + Politics

Wearing a mask is a political statement—that you care about community

Tim Redmond - June 22, 2020

Donald Trump has – no surprise – turned a basic public-health practice into a political issue, putting millions of lives at risk. Trump has consistently...

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Our publisher’s ‘must-read’ history of US protests is out now!

Let your mind take ‘a darling walk’ through Creativity Explored’s latest

COVID is devastating the US economy—while the very rich get very richer

Appeals Court upholds Prop. C in major win for local tax measures

A laser, a dog, and grape gum lead to feminist superpower in ‘Equality Girls’

Uber, Lyft drivers take message to CEO’s house

ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2020: The protests, the parties (online), the poignant posters

Homeless sweeps come back to the Tenderloin

Foreign Correspondent: Lessons from the Cuban police

Wearing a mask is a political statement—that you care about community

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