✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Can Anyone Fix California? | Vanity Fair

vanityfair.com · 9,956 words · saved by 1 readers

Climate. Housing. Crime. Depending on who you ask, the Golden State is a bellwether for progress, or a liberal hellscape. A journey through a land in crisis.

Save this story Save this story She arrives, queenlike, in a designer Italian overcoat, high collar, and sunglasses, lipstick smile at once warm and fixed. An aide guides her by the elbow, security detail in tow, to the dining room of Pier 23, an old-school San Francisco tavern in the Embarcadero with a stuffed marlin on the wall and a multistory cruise ship idling outside. Two workmen in dayglow safety coats crane their necks from the bar to see Nancy Pelosi , Madam Speaker, doyenne of San Francisco, bête noire of the right. Pelosi removes her shades and requests a bowl of vanilla ice cream w

Explore this link on the map →

saved by

related reading