This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In the spring of 2019, Marc Benioff surveyed his kingdom and it looked good.

Tourists curious about San Francisco’s “urban decay” of abandoned shops, open-air drug use and homeless encampments can get a guided tour of the whole thing. A street-savvy guide fed up with the lack ...

The hottest trend in San Francisco — besides shopping at Brunello Cucinelli, of course — is talking about the city’s death spiral. CNN just did it. All the publications here, ours included, have made ...

A conversation with Jesse Barron, who wrote about a high-profile attack in San Francisco and about worries over the city’s future. By Soumya Karlamangla Perhaps you remember when two high-profile ...

San Francisco’s ‘doom loop’ route really does give people a front row seat to the city’s descent into homelessness, drug use and urban decay. Spurred by a local joker who has organized a tour of the ...

San Francisco is undeniably having a moment. Over the past year, headlines claiming the city is caught in a spiraling “doom loop” have become so prominent that a city commissioner decided to cash in ...