Last week Facebook carried out what may have been the single largest content takedown in its history. Any content that looked vaguely like news, even if it very much was not, disappeared from the platform in Australia. The company was demonstrating its opposition to a law now passed by the Australian Parliament that could require technology companies to compensate news organizations for their content.

We must take a comprehensive and data-driven approach to reopening schools that includes addressing community spread.

It is time to put pressure on the county and state to make vaccines available for teachers and put real safety measures into place.

We need policies that transform the incentive structure for developing new antibiotics, and also encourage responsible stewardship.

Our youth bear the brunt of the racist, divisive rhetoric that has plagued the political arena for the last four years, and change is now upon us.

The controversial lawmaker embarrasses some Republicans, but she’s no outlier.

Public defenders are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to name the Silicon Valley lawmaker—a former defense attorney—to the AG post.

The Trump era spurred them to collective action. But the work has just begun.

Communally managed parklets would allow businesses to operate during the pandemic and keep public land in the hands of the public.

Unfortunately, the attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters, encouraged by the Inciter-in-Chief, will not be the last act of mischief.

On Nov. 1, 2018, at 11:10am, some 20,000 Google employees, along with employees of Waymo, Verily and other Alphabet companies, stopped working and walked off the job in cities around the world. A week earlier, the New York Times reported that the company had paid tens of millions of dollars to two executives who had been accused of sexual misconduct toward our co-workers, staying silent about the alleged abuse and letting them walk away with no consequences.

At last, a sustained labor movement geared toward tech seems to be gaining real traction here in the Silicon Valley.

Imagine our freeways and gateways lined with electronic signs. Think how easily the sense of place we’ve worked hard to create can be destroyed.

If we can’t even make room and time for bus stops on our streets, there is little hope we’ll ever get the fast-moving transit system that we need.

Weeks before New Year’s Day, the Wright brothers made the first successful flight. Few noticed. They were too busy looking to the usual important sources for momentous achievements.

The real question we should be asking is: “how can we afford not to adopt a single-payer system?”