The passage of the ASUC’s recent divestment bill has, since its inception, engaged this campus in heated and passionate debate. On the night of the…
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Note: this is a response to Benjamin Goldblatt’s article Taking Apart the ASUC’s Divestment Bill Piece by Piece Articles written in opposition to the Boycott, Divest,…
The Israel divestment bill now being considered by the Berkeley student government provides a false narrative about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It misrepresents the actions of…
Last night, holed up in the London Ecuadorian Embassy, Julian Assange attempted once more to set the world alight with the release over 1.7 million…
When it comes to regulating industry, public agencies usually perform careful cost-benefit analyses to formulate policy. For the most part, the federal government does a…
We all love the April Fool’s holiday, but how did it come to be? Different explanations abound. One explanation posits that New Year’s Day used…
This week, the US Supreme Court began hearing cases on the constitutionality of Proposition 8 and DOMA. At this time of heightened passions and political…
I wasn’t planning on writing another Devil’s Advocate so soon after the first one, but the combination of disgraced Harvard history professor Niall Ferguson‘s partisan lies…
When “slurpee summits” get more national media attention than the expiration of unemployment benefits for millions, it becomes clear that American broadcast journalism has lost…
Most pedestrians of Sproul Plaza have probably noticed that the University of California Police Department (UCPD) has been cracking down on bicyclists in recent weeks, handing out dozens…
Written by Marine Chalons As the busiest street in Berkeley, Telegraph Avenue is a window into two worlds. Everyday thousands of students march up the…