I was speaking on the phone with a friend when he said something profound: “What’s a better expression of American freedom than rejecting your assigned gender at birth and just being whatever you want to be?”  He told me he said that to his conservative cousins in Michigan when they

The Republican Party has a long history of demonizing drug use and drug users as a political strategy to keep prisons full, and to give the public an enemy other than their actual enemy: the ultra rich.  However, the Trump Administration is taking a different approach. While the Republicans of

Silicon Valley loves solving “problems.” Whether it’s self-driving cars or lab-grown meat, there’s always a startup or a billionaire trying to optimize something. Lately, a handful of tech elites have turned their attention to what they see as the next crisis: not enough babies. This movement, called pro-natalism, is picking

Daniel Lurie has quietly done away with a cornerstone promise of his entire mayoral campaign. It’s partly what cinched the deal for voters desperate for some form of intervention in the city’s homelessness crisis. Lurie pledged 1,500 new shelter beds—within his first six months in office at that. Now Lurie’s

In 1983, nuclear explosions devastated my hometown, Kansas City, Missouri, in the made-for-TV film The Day After. The movie frightened me when I first watched it circa 2000. Not so dated that the mind couldn’t compensate, inky mushroom clouds spliced with real nuclear test footage still proved frightening. But the

San Francisco has long taken a socially open-minded attitude toward homosexuality. Its earliest settlers were mostly men who migrated west to make their fortune prospecting for gold, resulting in a disproportionately high ratio of men to women. Over the decades however, tensions arose between the gay community and the City’s

SFUSD’s LGBTQ+ Student Services program is the oldest program of its kind in the world. It has been innovating and setting the standard for whole student support for more than 35 years! Responsibility for the many district-wide initiatives required to support San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ students comes down to one individual.

Former Conservative British Prime Minister advisor Steve Hilton is running for governor of California. Per the Associated Press, Hilton formally launched his campaign on April 23 in Huntington Beach, California. He announced his run at an event in Republican stronghold Orange County. Hilton also served as host of Fox News