Dustin Gardiner

DRIVING THE DAY: FIRST IN POLITICO — After two major robotaxi malfunctions fueled havoc on city streets in less than a year, San Francisco is taking its Waymo worries to Washington.

DRIVING THE DAY: NEWSOM AIDE ON AFFAIR — A former aide to Gavin Newsom is challenging the governor's characterization of their 20-year-old

MEMOIR RESPONSE — When Ruby Rippey read Gavin Newsom 's telling of their 20-year-old affair in his recent memoir, she said she felt “a familiar feeling … the one of being written about by someone who assumes I won't answer.”

POWER PLAY — Democrats are working to nationalize a key congressional race in Southern California, ripping Republican Jim Desmond as “MAGA Jim” for

INTRAPARTY CHASM — The California Democratic Party's fight over taxing the rich is coming to a head in San Diego this weekend.

A billionaire-tax boon and Kamala’s pre-midterm summer

How SEIU-UHW scored big

BILLIONAIRE BLOWBACK — Ro Khanna spent months on an island, the only member of California's congressional delegation supporting a proposed state wealth tax.

City and county officials in the affluent region are banding together to propose moratoriums to limit the construction of deportation facilities.

GAME ON — Aisha Wahab has, for months, seemed like the inevitable contender to fill the vacant East Bay Area congressional seat formerly held by