When the first forty-niners began to trickle into California in search of gold, the Central Valley was a fertile expanse of grasslands and marshes home…
Berkeley Political Review
The international political community, a victim of increasing globalization, has grown to be an intertwined, tangled web of complex alliances. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
Trigger Warning: Discussion of sexual assault and violence against women The United Nations departments of Sexual Violence in Conflict and UN Women put forth a…
On April 17, 2022, there was a historical Abrahamic religion ‘reunion’ as Christians celebrated Easter, Muslims celebrated Ramadan, and Jews celebrated Passover. These three religions all…
On a cold day in January of 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman from Virginia, rushed to the Johns Hopkins Medical center after experiencing heavy…
Energy drinks feel like the perfect quick fix. After drinking one can of Bang, I feel equipped with enough energy to go on a run,…
Big Tech is in a crazed frenzy like we have never seen before—and there is not much they can do about it. The Senate Judiciary…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of what Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has described as a potentially “apocalyptic”…
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…
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…