Silicon Valley

Fort Point, a novelty wave located underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, is a flash point in the ongoing struggle surrounding gentrification in the Bay Area.

• By Jack Persons

Gregory Stevens explains what happened when the community he'd called an "elitist shit den of hate" found out about his online life.

• By Jack Denton

New research finds the stereotype that intellectual genius is a male trait can dampen females' interest in certain jobs or fields of study.

• By Tom Jacobs

Jacque Fresco spent decades building a life-sized model of his ideal city. The central idea? If we want the Western world to overcome war, avarice, and poverty, all we need to do is redesign the culture.

• By Barrett Swanson

Journalist Noam Cohen's new book argues that Silicon Valley is a social wrecking ball, but is that perspective enough to create change?

• By Peter C. Baker

Poor planning didn't just aggravate the area's housing problem: it helped create the Valley's growing empathy gap.

• By Daniel Harris

In the words of technology reporters.

• By Morgan Baskin & Jack Denton

Our focus on C-suite executives and venture capital-funded unicorns distracts from the underclass that keeps the San Francisco Bay Area running.

• By Peter C. Baker

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Gina Neff

Euphemisms offer important comfort in a recession. They also tend to exclude the people hit hardest.

• By Elizabeth Greenspan

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Bethany Moreton

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Margaret O’Mara

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Trebor Scholz

As folks gear up for end-of-summer road trips, Levi Tillemann makes the case for a synthetic market for automotive safety.

• By Levi Tillemann

An open application to the university’s Impact Challenge.

• By Susie Cagle

In order for tech workers to cash out on home equity, Proposition 13 forces them to move to another state.

• By Jim Russell

Or, like, every week on the Internet.

• By Kate Wheeling

The company has more practice than you might expect.

• By Susie Cagle

The secondary housing market in the Bay Area is blowing up, but collective living isn’t always “sharing.”

• By Susie Cagle

The pull of opportunity, not the push of expensive real estate, drives migration from California.

• By Jim Russell

When tech workers are considered the true “creative class,” artists don’t appear to win.

• By Susie Cagle

Media depictions of tech are rubbing some viewers the wrong way—but the entertainment industry is not the real problem.

• By Susie Cagle

It’s not just customers who are benefiting from the Silicon Valley-style normalization of the marijuana market.

• By Kyle Chayka

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

• By Pacific Standard Staff