Economics How to Make Our Cars Less Deadly As folks gear up for end-of-summer road trips, Levi Tillemann makes the case for a synthetic market for automotive safety. Levi Tillemann
Environment Six Terrible, Singularity University-Inspired Pitches for Disrupting California’s Drought An open application to the university’s Impact Challenge. Susie Cagle
Economics Why Top Talent Must Flee Silicon Valley In order for tech workers to cash out on home equity, Proposition 13 forces them to move to another state. Jim Russell
Environment Google Is Planning to Plan Your City The company has more practice than you might expect. Susie Cagle
Environment Silicon Valley’s Extremely Expensive Bunk Beds The secondary housing market in the Bay Area is blowing up, but collective living isn’t always “sharing.” Susie Cagle
Economics Are High Housing Costs Forcing Talent to Flee Silicon Valley? The pull of opportunity, not the push of expensive real estate, drives migration from California. Jim Russell
Social Justice Silicon Valley Is the Best and Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Art When tech workers are considered the true “creative class,” artists don’t appear to win. Susie Cagle
Environment Tech TV: Silicon Valley vs. ‘Silicon Valley’ Media depictions of tech are rubbing some viewers the wrong way—but the entertainment industry is not the real problem. Susie Cagle
Environment Seamless for Marijuana Isn’t Just a Stoner’s Dream Come True It’s not just customers who are benefiting from the Silicon Valley-style normalization of the marijuana market. Kyle Chayka