Journalism

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The strange case of ex-radical david horowitz

Most people don't change their political stripes. David Horowitz isn't most people. (California magazine)

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CODED AND LOADED

How politicians talk about race and gender without really talking about race and gender. (California magazine)

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INTO the deep freeze

What kind of person chooses to get cryonically preserved? (California magazine)

This story won a CASE Bronze award.

The new face of south africa

Born free, today’s post-apartheid generation asks, what’s next? (Afar magazine)

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Economic leverage

When UC students fought to divest from apartheid South Africa. (California magazine)

Saharan Scenes

A turn through Mauritania, the land of the Moors. (California magazine)

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Intellectual Action Hero

The political fictions of Eugene Burdick. (California magazine)

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Ask Me About Psych Rock in Zambia

The many lives of Keith Kabwe—freedom fighter, holy man, rock star. (Symbolia magazine)

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Rose Pak is winning

For the first time in San Francisco history, the halls of power are dominated by Asian-American leaders, and many of them have one brilliant, tireless, and, according to her enemies, unscrupulous woman to thank. (San Francisco magazine)

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Public Health Wonk

As CEO of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Joe Hollendoner is leading an effort to eliminate all new HIV infections. (University of Illinois Chicago alumni magazine)

This story was a Folio Eddie Award finalist for 2018.

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Headbanging Makes Headway

An evening with High on Fire. (San Francisco magazine)

A Flood of Disappointment

A scheme to build dams in the Lesotho Highlands is watering South Africa’s thirsty cities while making beggars of the region’s already impoverished residents. (Mother Jones)

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Barry McGee

An afternoon with San Francisco artist Barry McGee. (Pallet magazine)

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Captain of the Skyline

As president of SF’s Board of Supervisors, Aaron Peskin has been vilified as a power-hungry preservationist, but he’s also helping to forge our new downtown. (San Francisco magazine)

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we’re a zambian band

“Zambia’s Mick Jagger” and the rise, fall, and rebirth of the country’s psychedelic rock scene. (The Appendix)

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HOUSING A MOVEMENT

Steve DeCaprio, an Oakland housing rights advocate, and the art of squatting. (Utne Reader)

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rules of the tribe

A cautionary tale from the 1980s, when punks and metalheads hated each other with a passion—and one of the biggest punk bands in the world went hair metal. (The Appendix)

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famous enough

The minor celebrity of Rod Benson, the most famous pro basketball player who never made it to the NBA. (California magazine)

This story won a CASE Bronze award.

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Doomsday

An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs—will we be next? (California magazine)

The Thug

Hanging out with a South African gangster. (Carte Blanche magazine)

True grit

A sandboarding expedition to the Oregon coast. (Men’s Book)

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Danger Ahead

Gavin Newsom’s stint as mayor of San Francisco shows that being truly green is still politically risky. (San Francisco magazine)

The Dome and the Dragon

How a ghettoized minority cracked the San Francisco establishment—and then became it. (San Francisco magazine)

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Browser Boss

Parisa Tabriz helps keep your computer safe against assaults by bedroom hackers, hostile nation states, and everything in between. (University of Illinois alumni magazine)

A Violent Ceasefire

Reportage from Gaza during the Second Intifada. (San Francisco Chronicle)

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The Black Panthers Do Algeria

When the revolutionary dream dies: Eldridge Cleaver’s North African exile. (Pallet magazine)

Lighting up Soweto

In Soweto and other South African townships, guerrilla electricians are fighting back against the new government’s privatization of basic necessities. (In These Times)

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who you calling chicken?

A very San Francisco mayoral debate. (San Francisco magazine)

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Here’s Hoping for the Politics of Hope

Ron Dellums’ opaque turn as Oakland’s mayor. (San Francisco magazine)

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his truth is marching on

R.J. Rushdoony and the rise of the Christian conservatives. (California magazine)

This story won a CASE Gold award.

Bummer Beach

Tech billionaire Vinod Khosla bought the land abutting a popular surfing cove. Then he boxed the surfers out. The craziest thing? He might get away with it. (San Francisco magazine)

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How did A Palestine tourism poster become a symbol of resistance?

(Slate)

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angels, protesters, and patriots

What a long-ago skirmish between antiwar protesters and the Hells Angels says about love of country. (California magazine)

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The War Department's WWII Advice Booklet for Soldiers Headed to Syria

(Slate magazine)

On the Block

A pilot program in Oakland combines community policing with social services and gets at-risk young men off the street. (The American Prospect)

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Strange Renderings

The secret geographies of Trevor Paglen. (California magazine)

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DNA’s Identity Crisis

A deep investigation into prosecutors’ misuse of DNA statistics. (San Francisco magazine)

“but he’s not a politician!”

Polite, accessible, non-confrontational, Mayor Ed Lee wasn’t supposed to be a polarizing political figure. Then the economy went berserk and the old San Francisco fault lines cracked wide open. (San Francisco magazine)

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Challenged

COVID-19 has altered the workplace as we knew it. Just ask Alan May, Hewlett Packard’s executive vice president of human resources. (University of Illinois alumni magazine)