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Will progressive Democratic Party slate collapse over D5 race?

Tim Redmond - August 27, 2019

The San Francisco Democratic Party will decide Wednesday night who to endorse in the fall elections – and there’s a schism in what was...

News + Politics

Juul sues over ballot handbook language

Michael Toren - August 27, 2019

Will Proposition C, Juul’s ballot measure to overturn the city’s e-cigarette ban, also have the effect of overturning the ban on flavored e-cigarettes, passed...

Taylor Swift shows political side on new album ‘Lover’

Haley Keizur - August 25, 2019

Taylor Swift has done it again, unleashing a headline-grabbing album that also delivers musically—and, intriguingly, weaves in her new-found political voice. Seventh studio album Lover has...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent: What is the role of the US in Hong Kong demonstrations?

Reese Erlich - August 23, 2019

I first met Jason Lee when he was promoting jazz concerts in his hometown of Hong Kong. More recently, he has been sending me...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: A gripping dispatch from the heart of Aleppo

Dennis Harvey - July 24, 2019

SCREEN GRABS No doubt many cineastes in the Bay Area and well beyond will be lining up this weekend for arguably the first interesting mainstream...

Movies

‘The Great Hack’: They’ve got your data, and yes they’ve used it

Joshua Rotter - July 23, 2019

Social network Facebook has faced fierce criticism for its dubious privacy practices for years. In the beginning, it was tracking user activity via "Like"...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent: Live, from Moscow

Reese Erlich - June 3, 2019

Vladimir Pozner was well-known in the 1980s as an articulate, English-speaking defender of Kremlin policies. Then he began describing himself as a “man of...

Campaign Trail

Eight ‘Big Ideas’ at MoveOn Forum

Jeantelle Laberinto - June 2, 2019

On Saturday afternoon, eight Democratic presidential hopefuls appeared for MoveOn’s “Big Ideas Forum” in San Francisco. Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Cory Booker, Congressman Beto O’Rourke,...

Campaign Trail

Warren steals the show at Democratic Convention

Tim Redmond - June 1, 2019

It’s remarkable how much the mainstream of the Democratic Party has shifted since Bernie Sanders shook up the party three years ago. This year,...

News + Politics

The Patty Hearst kidnapping and the rise of community-based organizations in SF

Calvin Welch - April 25, 2019

UPDATED, see the end. The 1974 kidnapping of Patricia “Patty” Hearst, granddaughter of the founder of the Hearst media empire, was a dramatic chapter in...

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