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Reporting

If You Build It

Chipping away at the housing affordability crisis in the Bay Area. That’s my window. The thought fills Michael Norris with pride as he considers the...

Learning to Love the Robot

A journalist contends with the growing array of AI tools that are intended to augment—or replace—him. A computer program helped write the headline above. As a...

A Bike, Some Undies, and a Gun

A look back at a woman’s solo ride from Chicago to SF amid the bicycle craze of the 1890s. When Margaret Valentine LeLong decided in...