On the night before Donald Trump's inauguration, Jen Pahlka and Tim O'Reilly headlined our seventh What's Now: San Francisco event. At a time when many Bay Area residents are worried about the undoing of President Obama's legacy, Jen and Tim emphasized the importance of public service divorced from politics.
If the election of Donald Trump to the highest office in the land doesn't serve as "shock therapy", in the words of one our participants, for the progressive movement and the Democratic Party, what will? A little more than a month after the election, Democrats still coming to grips with...
One week after the 2016 presidential election, Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom discussed the empathy and inclusion that's missing from the tech equation, and the ways in which California will continue to forge ahead in its progressive agenda.
American cities have plenty of jobs and nowhere near enough housing. Do city officials stand a chance of keeping Millennials residents around?
Mayor Nutter believes that city officials should first and foremost remain open to the possibility of disruptive companies that can provide new or better services to their constituents. While he admits there is no one-size-fits-all method to regulating and taxing the sharing economy, Mayor Nutter believes that it will continue...
Entrepreneur and investor Nick Hanauer, one of the most vocal proponents of raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, wants his fellow one percenters to understand the importance of addressing income inequality. No one has a bigger stake in a thriving middle class than the wealthy, Hanauer said.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said in his first inaugural address. While this may not be strictly true, especially for a nation in the midst of the Great Depression and less than a decade away from entering World War II, the...
The relationship between the U.S. and China is fraught with tension, yet it has never been more important for the two countries to work together to solve climate change. The U.S. and China account for around 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Fortunately, despite difficulties in other aspects of...
Is the foreign correspondent in crisis? While it's true that the advent of the Internet and the subsequent disruption of journalism's business model led to the slashing or downsizing of many foreign bureaus, the media experts and journalists who participated in our recent video conversation trained a critical—rather than nostalgic—eye...
In this presidential campaign cycle in particular, we've become overly accustomed to polarization. Issues are often painted as black and white, devoid of nuance or complexity. Given this landscape, it perhaps should come as no surprise that the recent FBI/Apple showdown was frequently portrayed (even by us) as a battle...