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Adam Lashinsky @adamlashinsky

@sfstandard and @washingtonpost columnist. Also: @esquire, @theinformation, @AirMailWeekly. Writing a biography of William Safire for @simonschuster

Joined February 2008
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Elon Musk took out his chainsaw. Government took out its checkbook. wapo.st/4uYdoXH

Opinion | The SpaceX IPO lays bare Elon Musk’s greatest contradiction

The man who gutted government built his fortune on it.

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Opinion: Daniel Lurie for governor? Election wins open the door to the discussion sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/… via @sfstandard

Opinion: Daniel Lurie for governor? Election wins open the door to the discussion

After going undefeated Tuesday, the mayor has an unequivocal mandate — and the makings of a new political machine.

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Opinion: Lashinsky: Why I’m throwing away my governor vote, and more last-minute election decisions sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/… via @sfstandard

Opinion: Lashinsky: Why I’m voting for Matt Mahan, Scott Wiener, and against Prop D

The Standard’s political columnist returns (briefly) from book-leave to share his personal voting guide.

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California’s GOP ghost has a pulse wapo.st/4tuB30q

Opinion | Republicans are finding cracks in a Democratic fortress

The race for California governor could turn surprisingly red.

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Hardly anyone checks this little box on their tax return. Why keep it? wapo.st/4t8yOR6

Opinion | Hardly anyone checks this little box on their tax return. Why keep it?

The presidential campaign fund is broken, gutted and pointless.

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Anthropic is fighting a battle the country needs wapo.st/4b4drbJ

Opinion | Anthropic takes on Hegseth and Trump

The president and his team have gone too far — again — in trying to bend a private business to their will.

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Democrats have an early front-runner wapo.st/3NW7q9e

Opinion | Democrats have an early front-runner

Gavin Newsom’s bet on joyful combat and coiffed charisma is paying dividends.

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The pragmatist and the socialist: How Lurie’s State of the City speech one-upped Mamdani sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/… via @sfstandard

Opinion: How Daniel Lurie’s State of the City speech one-upped Zohran Mamdani

Two mayors, two speeches, two modes of leadership: Assessing what Daniel Lurie got right — and what topics he avoided — in his big 2026 address.

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Jamie Dimon slips on a new cap for the Trump era wapo.st/4bmy1FX

Opinion | Jamie Dimon slips on a new cap for the Trump era

JPMorgan Chase’s Strategic and Resiliency Initiative is do-gooder capital to suit the latest trends.

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Lurie mostly thrived in Year 1. The next year could be dicier sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/… via @sfstandard

Opinion: Daniel Lurie mostly thrived in Year 1. The next year could be shakier

Few predicted his popularity or the speed with which he has altered the city’s narrative. But his accomplishments could be fleeting.

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Opinion: Will Mayor Daniel Lurie stay popular? Will voters kick out incumbents? Will OpenAI dive bomb? Adam Lashinsky peers into his crystal ball. 📝: @adamlashinsky sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/…

Opinion: Adam Lashinsky’s San Francisco predictions for 2026

Will Daniel Lurie stay popular? Will voters kick out incumbents? Will OpenAI dive bomb? Adam Lashinsky peers into his crystal ball.

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Lashinsky: My answers to 11 questions that will define the city in 2026 sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/… via @sfstandard

Opinion: Adam Lashinsky’s San Francisco predictions for 2026

Will Daniel Lurie stay popular? Will voters kick out incumbents? Will OpenAI dive bomb? Adam Lashinsky peers into his crystal ball.

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Daniel Lurie wants to take a scalpel to SF’s city charter. A hatchet would work better sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/… via @sfstandard

Opinion: Daniel Lurie needs to clean up San Francisco city charter

The sludge-filled city constitution needs a generational cleaning. We’ll see if the mayor’s willing to do the dirty work.

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Labor broke a tax agreement. Business is retaliating. It's a SNAFU moment in SF politics. sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/…

Opinion: A sordid spat is speeding to the ballot, and SF voters are caught in the crossfire

 Labor broke a tax agreement. Now business is retaliating. It’s a SNAFU moment in SF politics.

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"The concern is that demand for AI’s new products might never catch up with the capacity the industry is building," @adamlashinsky writes. wapo.st/44i3vsB

Opinion | ‘Circularity’ is a flashing warning for the AI boom

Wall Street’s buzzword for investors was known as “round-tripping” during the dot-com years.

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Voters wanted SF government to change. These powerful interests want the opposite sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/… via @sfstandard

Opinion: Voters wanted SF government to change. These powerful interests want the opposite

A task force working to reduce the city’s clown car of commissions is under attack by special interests. Long live the Commission Streamlining Task Force.

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‘Circularity’ is a flashing warning for the AI boom wapo.st/48qEY7k

Opinion | ‘Circularity’ is a flashing warning for the AI boom

Wall Street’s buzzword for investors was known as “round-tripping” during the dot-com years.

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Meet Natalie Gee, the progressive who will haunt Lurie’s Sunset choice sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/… via @sfstandard

Opinion: Meet Natalie Gee, the progressive who will haunt Lurie’s Sunset choice

In naming Alan Wong, Mayor Lurie passed on making Natalie Gee D4 supervisor, but Sunset voters may not when given the opportunity to vote in June and November. Gee is qualified, but is a pro-labor...

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SF’s left want to raise taxes they’d agreed to lower. It’s as bad an idea as it sounds sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/… via @sfstandard

Opinion: SF’s left want to raise taxes they’d agreed to lower. It’s as bad an idea as it sounds

Thanks to Supervisor Connie Chan and organized labor, the tired political turf wars are revving back up — and grand compromises are being trampled.

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Daniel Lurie learns a bitter lesson sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/… via @sfstandard

Opinion: Daniel Lurie learns a bitter lesson with Beya Alcaraz fiasco

The debacle over the mayor’s Sunset supervisor appointment was a humiliating self-own — one that began months before he ever heard the name Beya Alcaraz.

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