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Golden States
The Editors
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interview
When Was the Last Time We Built a New City?
Jan Sramek
California Forever wants to build a new city in Solano county. On paper, it would be an affordable, high-density urbanist wonderland — but can they actually pull it off?
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Debugging Tech Journalism
Timothy B. Lee
A huge proportion of tech journalism is characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research. Can we fix it?
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Manufacturing Bliss
Nadia Asparouhova
A growing community centered on the Bay Area is rediscovering the jhanas, a meditation technique that practitioners claim could upend how we think about the brain — and transform our lives in the process.
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Silicon Valley’s Gold Rush Roots
Peter Westwick
Silicon Valley, purveyor of disruptive technologies, likes to think of itself as sui generis. But there’s a clear line from tech’s knowledge economy to the Bay Area’s first economy: gold mining.
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interview
How to Make a Great Government Website
Dave Guarino
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forecast
The Fault in Our Forecasts
Susan Hough
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California vs. Big Soda
Scott Kaplan
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It’s 2024 and Drought is Optional
Casey Handmer
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The Highway to NIMBYism
Devon Zuegel
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When RAND Made Magic in Santa Monica
Pradyumna Prasad Jordan Schneider
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The EA-Progress Studies War is Here, and It’s a Constructive Dialogue!
Clara Collier Jason Crawford
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The “TESCREAL” Bungle
Ozy Brennan
06: California
This magazine contains the key to ultimate pleasure. Soda taxes. Think tanks. Much more than you wanted to know about public benefits administration. California ideologies. The narcissism of small differences. What does it take to build a city these days? Fault lines. Development hell. The road to Silicon Valley was paved in gold. Why shouldn’t we grow all the alfalfa we want?