It’s a running joke across many college campuses that economics is the “dismal science”. For those who are not economists, it can be hard to connect abstract terms like “absorptive capacity” and “nonp…
Political Innovation: Taking a Page from the Business Playbook
We live in a world marred by uncertainty. Each day it seems that more and more crises are coming to the fore: incoming climate disaster, rampant xenophobia, growing economic discontent. Yet the approa…
Race Based Affirmative Action Has Run Its Course
One of the aspects of American governmental institutions that doesn’t get enough attention is the lack of an intersectional approach to juridical issues that arise out of society. We have never been k…
Preserve Hong Kong’s autonomy for economic prosperity
Hong Kong’s peculiar yet privileged position as China’s only liberal spot is coming to an end much faster than anyone has anticipated. Although the Heritage Foundation has ranked Hong Kong as the worl…
Beating Trump: Five Things Democrats Need To Do Before 2020
Beating Trump in 2020 will not be easy. If there is anything that the Democrats should’ve learned from 2016, this is probably it. The truth is Donald Trump is a much better politician than many of us …
Why Being ‘Woke’ Is Not Enough
As we inhabit the most polarized political environment our nation has faced since the Civil War, we must work towards unity by questioning everything — our institutions, values, one another, our syste…
Femicide in Mexico: What Happens when the State Looks the Other Way
Laura Velazquez had to identify her sister Diana’s body by her braids because her face and torso were left unrecognizable. Diana left her house in Chimalhuacan, Mexico, on July 2, 2017, where she was …
Overprotective Parents and a New Generation of American Children
The beginning of the year 2014 was marked by a peculiar event. In an appellate court decision, a mother was found guilty of abuse and neglect for leaving her toddler in the car while she went into a s…
Malaysia: Lessons on Institutional Roadblocks to Climate Change Adaptation
It is one of the world’s most tragic ironies that the most detrimental impacts of climate change will accrue to the countries that have had only a minor role in bringing them about. The Southeast Asia…
What Gene-editing in China Reveals About Progress and Risk
On November 25, 2018, a Chinese researcher by the name of He Jiankui released a video of himself detailing the process through which he edited the genes of a set of twin girls. Against the backdrop of…
The Positives of Political Polarization
It’s no secret that Americans are extremely anxious about the current state of our political system. Our reasons for this are varied, but perhaps the most frequently discussed is the recent increase i…
Anarchy in the UK: What is going wrong in the Labour party?
Theresa May has been forced into a last minute gamble to save her Brexit deal—talking to the opposition. The Prime Minister is meeting with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to try and find a deal that coul…
Kashmir Amidst Neighbouring Political Gains
The following article was written for Berkeley Political Review as part of a collaboration with Davis Political Review. Legend says that on the great Mughal Emperor Jahangir’s deathbed, he was asked w…
Jeremy Corbyn: An Unsatisfactory Alternative
The following article was written for Berkeley Political Review as part of a collaboration with McGill International Review. Today, British politics are engulfed in one sole issue: Brexit. As Theresa …
Tenants over Tents: Why Skid Row is Stuck in the Undertow
The largest concentration of unsheltered people in the country is located on “Skid Row,” a 54-block stretch of eastern downtown Los Angeles. 2,000 people spend each night there. However, Skid Row is s…
Student Housing: The Rise and Potential of Mini-Dorms
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Mini-Dorms. No, it’s not some DIY sculpture of a room. It’s a developing housing issue facing students in college towns all around the nation. If you aren’t lucky en…
Is Jean Claude Juncker Important Yet?
In 2010, Herman von Rompuy, President of the European Council, sat on the floor of the European Parliament as Nigel Farage accused him of being “the assassin of European democracy, and of the European…
Frank Ocean Decal Makes Waves Nationally , But Not For Berkeley’s Black Students
UC Berkeley is tough for everyone. From challenging academics to pricey housing and groceries, the stressors here are enough to wear any person out. Professors give students all the coursework they ca…