We Didn't Leave the Party. It Left Us.
My family fled communist China, then found a home in the Democratic Party. I still believe what they taught me — safety, schools, a fair shot. But the party is growing increasingly unrecognizable.
My family fled communist China, then found a home in the Democratic Party. I still believe what they taught me — safety, schools, a fair shot. But the party is growing increasingly unrecognizable.
The second-largest school district in America has until mid-August to convince county overseers it can avoid the fate of Oakland, Vallejo, and Inglewood—after signing $1.13 billion in union contracts the county had already warned, in writing, it couldn't afford.
A Bayview nonprofit at the center of two separate City Hall scandals is trying to send its third consecutive leader to the Board of Supervisors.
A San Francisco judge just suspended the sentence of the man who killed an 84-year-old Asian grandfather in cold blood. This is the state of "justice" in the city.
The nation's data center battles are the front line of a quiet, Beijing-linked influence campaign.
Three fictions San Francisco sold as justice, and the community that keeps paying for them.
SFUSD censored student journalists, drove out 4,000 families with a segregation-worsening lottery, staged an unlawful...
Garry Tan launched Garry's List in February 2026 as a curated membership community to export SF's recall-era organizi...
A network of SF housing nonprofits — TODCO, CCDC — and their political allies have killed hundreds of units, hidden f...
Oakland Ceasefire cut gun violence in half by targeting the 0.5% driving it, Flock cameras slashed carjackings 66%, a...
A union-backed one-time 5% wealth tax on ~200 California billionaires qualified for the November 2026 ballot promisin...
My family fled communist China, then found a home in the Democratic Party. I still believe what they taught me — safety, schools, a fair shot. But the party is growing increasingly unrecognizable.
The second-largest school district in America has until mid-August to convince county overseers it can avoid the fate of Oakland, Vallejo, and Inglewood—after signing $1.13 billion in union contracts the county had already warned, in writing, it couldn't afford.
A Bayview nonprofit at the center of two separate City Hall scandals is trying to send its third consecutive leader to the Board of Supervisors.
A San Francisco judge just suspended the sentence of the man who killed an 84-year-old Asian grandfather in cold blood. This is the state of "justice" in the city.
The nation's data center battles are the front line of a quiet, Beijing-linked influence campaign.
SFUSD censored student journalists, drove out 4,000 families with a segregation-worsening lottery, staged an unlawful...
Garry Tan launched Garry's List in February 2026 as a curated membership community to export SF's recall-era organizi...
A network of SF housing nonprofits — TODCO, CCDC — and their political allies have killed hundreds of units, hidden f...
Oakland Ceasefire cut gun violence in half by targeting the 0.5% driving it, Flock cameras slashed carjackings 66%, a...
A union-backed one-time 5% wealth tax on ~200 California billionaires qualified for the November 2026 ballot promisin...
San Francisco has repeatedly sold Asian Americans the same false choice: safety for justice, excellence for equity, and now prosperity for compassion. None of these trade-offs were ever necessary, yet Asian Americans, with the least inherited wealth and political power to absorb the cost, keep being asked to foot the bill.