Cash for crazymaking: a tour through recent MacArthur Foundation grantees
John D. MacArthur was a conservative. But his fortune is being spent on left-wing grantees such as NGOs that oppose energy and prosecutors who won’t jail lawbreakers.
Chesa Boudin
Fifty years after the final Weatherman bombing
The Weather Underground supposedly ended its terrorism after September 1975, but the legacy remains in today’s politics.
A Conversation with Mission Local’s Joe Rivano Barros (Part 1 of 2)
The senior editor talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the nonprofit news site, the visions and aims of the MacArthur and Crankstart Foundations’ criminal- and restorative-justice grantmaking in San Francisco,…
A Conversation with Mission Local’s Joe Rivano Barros (Part 2 of 2)
The senior editor talks to Michael E. Hartmann about staff turnover and accusations of mismanagement in the San Francisco DA’s office, including in grants administration, and more broadly, the underappreciated…
Rise of the Soros “Prosecutors”
A recent report by the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund found that George Soros’s financial support for the disastrous movement has been far larger than was previously thought. As many…
“Pathological Altruism” May Kill a City Near You
San Francisco had a public health crisis last year. But it wasn't COVID. It was a 150 percent increase in the number of drug overdoses (697), more than double the…