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California Bans Legacy Admissions
Starting next fall, public and private universities in California will no longer be allowed to consider an applicant’s relationship to alumni or dono…
1 year, 6 months ago
Supreme Court’s New Term Will Decide on Trans Rights, Guns
As the new Supreme Court term begins, the decisions and conduct of its last term have put a cloud over the judicial institution. Opinions extending t…
1 year, 6 months ago
Lawsuits Against National Labor Relations Board Could Cloud Future of Organized Labor
The National Labor Relations Board is facing legal challenges from SpaceX, Amazon, Starbucks and other companies that argue that the nearly 90-year o…
1 year, 6 months ago
SF Zoo is “Unsafe for Visitors and Animals” According to City Report
At the San Francisco Zoo, the kangaroo pen lacks running water, the gorilla habitat area floods during heavy rainfall and the jaguars are depressed a…
1 year, 6 months ago
Second Deadly Hurricane in Two Weeks Devastates Florida
At least 12 people are dead in Florida after Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday night. The death toll is expected to rise as local officials as…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Natural World is Queerer Than You Think
When a female clownfish dies, a male clownfish can switch sexes and reproduce with other females. Some morpho butterflies have one male wing, and one…
1 year, 7 months ago
Fifty Years of Saturday Night Live
When Saturday Night Live asked Dana Carvey to play Joe Biden for this season, few anticipated that the president would drop out of the race over conc…
1 year, 7 months ago
Daniel Lurie Tried to End Poverty in the City. Now He Wants to Be Mayor.
Daniel Lurie founded and was the CEO of the antipoverty nonprofit, Tipping Point. He’s also heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and has put more than si…
1 year, 7 months ago
Max Boot Unravels Ronald Reagan’s ‘Myriad Contradictions’ in New Biography
Much has been written about Ronald Reagan, but historian Max Boot’s new biography, which draws on new archival sources and interviews with nearly a h…
1 year, 7 months ago
Why Ahsha Safaí Thinks an Urban Planner, Like Himself, Should be SF Mayor
When Ahsha Safaí applied to MIT for his masters degree in urban planning, he wrote that one day he hoped to be a city mayor. Since getting his degree…
1 year, 7 months ago