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Does Abundance dream of electric GSIs?

Big Tech’s favorite movement finds a home at Berkeley

The abundance movement has ingratiated itself to power, especially in California.

‘We didn’t win the war’

How protest at Berkeley fell quiet

Berkeley’s protesters have been strangely silent this year. They say that they are in the midst of a reckoning with years of what both current organizers and veterans of the famed Free Speech Movement described as ineffective organizing.

Rage within the machine

How Berkeley’s Republicans dominate the conservative media sphere

Berkeley is Republicans’ white whale. Despite, or perhaps because of, the city’s reputation as a radically liberal stronghold, Republicans just can’t stay away.

At Berkeley, dropping out is the new graduating

Dropping out was barely in college students’ lexicon a decade ago, but now it’s a badge of ambition.

‘No such thing as a nuclear free zone’

The race to overturn Berkeley’s nuclear ban

It’s been 50 years since California voters enacted a landmark moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants, and nuclear research has advanced since — but has public opinion?

Who can beat Wiener?

Inside the congressional competition to claim Pelosi’s seat and stop the heir apparent

I got the chance to interview each candidate, discussing key issues — the future of the Democratic Party, Trump, Israel, higher education and more — to identify who will be the leader of the post-Pelosi order.

“A chilling effect”

California lawmakers' silent war on campus speech

If you’re a UC Berkeley student reading this, open CalCentral. You will notice that there is a new task waiting for you called “Civil Rights and Open Expression.”

Inside the beehive

The political inefficacy of CALPIRG

When CALPIRG’s hiring team approached me in the spring of my freshman year, I was as bright-eyed and enthusiastic about the work as anyone.

Inside UC Berkeley’s Christian ‘cults’

For all its Nobel Prizes, research opportunities and history of activism, UC Berkeley wrestles with the realities of its size.

Agents of abundance and the apocalypse

Over the past couple of years, artificial intelligence, or AI, advocates have dreamt of an abundant future. Recently, a counter narrative has been gaining momentum.

Progressive aesthetics, nostalgic realities

Why your rent is $2000

A clear disconnect has emerged between Berkeley’s progressive aesthetics and the reality of living in the city without access to enormous wealth.

Sex, Huey Newton and the National Guard

My time with the Berkeley Barb

It was through a reunion and conversations with former Berkeley Barb members that I began to understand how the city came to be constructed and captured, in part by the Barb, as a “cartoonishly leftist” place.

Who holds the cards?

In conversation with Rich Lyons and Abigail Verino on the state of UC Berkeley

Over the past year, higher education in the United States has come under attack.