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Gavin Newsom, "Lizard" King
Why the right-wing may learn to fear him
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The Illusion of San Francisco Liberalism
On Dianne Feinstein's death, and what came before
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The Institution of Memory
More thoughts on the end
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Pretending Problems Don't Exist Won't Make Them Disappear
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Where Democrats Lost
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Eric Adams and the Weapon of Identity
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What the YIMBYs Never Understand
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Why is the NYPD So Powerful?
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Handling Journalists Isn't Very Hard
A short guide to dealing with most of them
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Outlier Polls Don't Matter
But Joe Biden still has a big problem
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1939-2023
Bang the drum slowly, play the fife lowly
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The Failure of Government
Eric Adams and the metrics
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Jann Wenner and the Problem with Poptimism
The music discourse boils over
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Will These Women Run Against Eric Adams?
Christine Quinn and Jessica Ramos float their trial balloons
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The Death of ESPN?
What a cable war means
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Political Currents by Ross Barkan
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