Paul Graham is pushing back on AOC's claim that billionaires can't legitimately earn their wealth, drawing on two decades of data from evaluating thousands of founders at Y Combinator. Meanwhile, Sacramento is moving to gut Prop 209's K-12 protections through ACA-7, which would allow race-based preferences in gifted programs — a direct challenge to a voter mandate that was reaffirmed as recently as 2020. Together, these fights reflect a deepening battle over whether merit and individual achievement still have a place in California's public institutions.
A family that literally fights crime in their SF neighborhood can't get grandma a visitor visa to meet her newborn grandson.
When nearly all your campaign cash comes from outside your district, who are you really representing?
Archival footage reveals the 2020 board meeting where Regents admitted they were ignoring faculty data to appease one woman.
One in 12 UCSD freshmen can't do middle school math—and 25% of them had perfect 4.0 GPAs in high school.