Nine years ago, San Franciscans went to bed with dread and giddy anticipation. Either the Y2K bug would spawn a man-against-machine dystopia, or... More >>

During World War II, U.S. soldiers were temporarily stationed on Vanuatu, an archipelago 1,000 miles north of Australia. The natives were amazed... More >>

These are trying economic times — unless you're Michael Tilson Thomas, the baton-waving tycoon at the head of the San Francisco Symphony... More >>

After he was spotted crying at Barack Obama's victory speech, Jesse Jackson noted the historical portent of the president-elect's status as the... More >>

When San Francisco is forced during the coming months to triple bus fares, let parks turn to weeds, fire librarians en masse, and allow criminals... More >>

During the past few weeks, obscure economics professors have appeared on television screens and in the text of countless newspaper articles to... More >>

In the final moments of a historic campaign, an old political hand pulls an outlandish stunt that will either damage him, or help make him one of... More >>

Dunstanto Lopez stands at the center of the foreclosure storm that's boarding up neighborhoods around America. The value of his home in Hayward... More >>

Amid the hubbub of the 22,000 academics, bureaucrats, and policy wonks attending last month's International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, one... More >>

How many people in San Francisco are involved in multimillion-dollar illegal tax shelters? Would you believe: more than 200,000? That's how many... More >>