The Community College of San Francisco is closing its downtown campus while the Mayor’s Office touts elite university expansion into the neighborhood to boost property values.
Is it hype or is it Kool-Aid? “Ghost in the Machine” succeeds where “The AI Doc” fails.
As 2025 draws to a close, we're feeling a little reflective, a little nostalgic even.
As 2025 draws to a close, we're feeling a little reflective, a little nostalgic even. We looked back at the last six months of Current and gathered some of our favorite stories of our very first year. Enjoy, and happy almost new year!
By Victor Zhenyi Wang
The group behind all those flyers wants you to think about AI doom, tech power, and human extinction.
By David de Leeuw
Young workers, sick of their bosses' bullshit, are hitting the picket lines. But their motivations aren’t only economic.
By Wendy Liu
We explain what those weird tech billboards are really saying.
By Rebecca Gross
For more than 40 years, the Veterans Hall has modeled what a shared public space can look like for those cast off by society. Can it withstand increased privatization?
By Zoe Stahl
In the Bay, data and vibes compete to define our lives. But what if they’re not as different as they seem?
By Cecelia Shaw
Tenants at 2341 Valley street, a 41-unit building in uptown Oakland, are fighting against squalid conditions, an absent landlord and city bureaucracy. But they’re not giving up.
By Lucio Maldonado
The LA protests weren’t just about Trump, ICE or the National Guard. They were the result of decades of dispossession of working-class Angelenos.
By Jimmy Wu
Libs and the far-right ‘link and build’ in the Bay Area’s tech publication scene.
By Joni Prince
Student camps in solidarity with Palestine sprouted up at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State and Humboldt last year. We made a ledger of their success and failures.
By Gabriel Lopez
DJs in the Bay want us to know they are workers, too.
P.S. Did you have a favorite Current story from 2025 that wasn't on this list? Email us at editors@bayareacurrent.com and tell us about it.
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