Sydney was a sophomore at the University of San Francisco when she took magic mushrooms for the first time. Unlike most new users of the…
Berkeley Political Review
Welp. That was over quickly. Within an hour of the polls closing at 8 PM PT on September 14, the recall race was already called…
“Standardized testing is a form of eugenics,” declared a classmate in my legal studies class. We had been discussing the legacies of eugenics in the…
We often don’t think about why our car gets a certain amount of miles per gallon, or who tells the weatherman what to say on…
The End of O’Toole Everything happened in a flash. First, a ragtag ensemble of truckers, in the early days of 2022, arrived in Ottawa, Canada’s…
A New Crisis The United States is one of the most medicated countries in the world with over half of the nation taking at least…
In 2021, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele described himself as “the coolest dictator in the world” on Twitter. If Bukele limited his eccentricity to Twitter,…
…my allegiance is to the Republic, to democracy! – Obi Wan Kenobi Springtime in Berkeley effuses the air with a sense of unadulterated hope: the…
As the world was rocked by the tremors of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, people across the globe were awed by reports of thousands of ordinary…
——— History of Things ——— Any decent murder mystery should begin with a dead body in the woods. That’s how this one starts. In 1994, park scouts…
One night in late November, as Thanksgiving and the start of the holiday season were right around the corner, I logged onto Twitter to catch…
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam: once a major battleground of the Cold War, it is now better known as a vacation destination for Westerners with…
Toni Morrison’s first published novel The Bluest Eye tells the story of Pecola, a young Black girl living in the wake of the Great Depression…
BPR staff writer Michelle Wang dives into the building tensions in Bosnia built on a complex history of ethnic discrimination in this BPR documentary, featuring…
One year after Myanmar’s Coup, bullet casings line blood-stained pavements, and the sounds of gunfire, explosions and dampened cries of protest fill the air. In…
On the first of February, 79 top energy experts signed an open letter to Governor Gavin Newsom, urging him to halt the decommission of the…
Even at a young age, he had this sense of “American optimism.” He’d see something he didn’t like, take note of it and do everything…
“We’ve had three social media accounts being censored consecutively, but we do not want to give up yet,” an anonymous Chinese LGBTQ+ organization student leader…