Paul Graham is pushing back on AOC's claim that billionaires can't earn their wealth, arguing his two decades evaluating founders at Y Combinator proves the opposite. Meanwhile, Sacramento is moving to gut Prop 209's K-12 protections through ACA-7—letting race determine gifted program admissions—despite California voters rejecting affirmative action twice. Both fights are part of a broader struggle over whether merit or identity should determine who gets ahead in California's schools and economy.
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.