Politics
Stuck in the Middle
By Glen MartinKevin Sawyer is a man of many parts. He's a certified commercial and residential electrician. A trained paralegal. A skilled guitarist and pianist. He's also an inmate at San Quentin State Prison serving an indeterminate life sentence for burglary and sexual assault.
On the Story: Emilie Raguso Covers Berkeley’s Crime Beat Like No One Else
By Margie CullenWhen news first broke that a human skeleton was found hidden under a building on Berkeley’s Clark Kerr campus, Emilie Raguso was horrified.
Her Honor: Judge Carries Lessons Handed Down From Heart Mountain
By Martin SnappOn January 11, 2017, Margaret Fujioka ‘79 took the oath of office in the Rotunda of Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland as the first Japanese American woman Superior Court judge in Alameda County. She was flanked by her proud mother, husband, and children, but her thoughts turned to two people who weren’t there: her late father, Yoshiro “Babe” Fujioka, and his hero, his big brother Teruo “Ted” Fujioka.
A New EPA Rule Targets Tailpipe Emissions
By Leah WorthingtonTen days before Earth Day, on April 12, the Biden administration announced plans to significantly curtail vehicular emissions through unprecedented regulations that, if finalized, would mark a turning point in the electrification of everything from passenger vehicles to big rig trucks.
Inflation Reduction Act Marks U.S.’s Biggest Investment in Fighting the Climate Crisis
By Leah WorthingtonLast August, as Californians faced a deepening drought, Pakistan battled devastating floods, and the FBI captivated the world with its dramatic raid of Mar-a-Lago, a landmark piece of legislation snuck its way into federal law.
The Legacy of Berkeley’s I-House
By Margie CullenMeet five notable alumni who made waves in their fields
Berkeley Alumni Led a Historic Effort to Safeguard Reproductive Freedom
By Margie CullenWhen a judge in Texas issued his ruling invalidating the FDA’s approval of abortion pill mifepristone on April 8th, Karen Keiser ’69, MSJ ’73 was outraged.
All In and Zoomed Out
By Geoff KochWhat started as a way for a group of venture capital besties to convene during the COVID lockdown has become a podcast sensation.
Scaling the Climate Crisis
By Margie CullenMolly Kawahata lives in Bozeman, Montana, so that she can climb frozen waterfalls in the frigid Rocky Mountain winters.
The Edge Episode 21: Abolish Race (in Medicine)!
For centuries, doctors have medically treated people differently according to their race because they believed that race is biological. But in the last few years, medical professionals and activists have argued that this is both wrongheaded and can be dangerous to people’s health. In this episode, we talk to Stephen Richmond, a primary care physician and assistant professor at Stanford about the movement to abolish race from medicine and how race and biology do and do not intersect.
The Push to Abolish Cars on Telegraph
By Margie CullenOn a Sunday in September, Telegraph Avenue looked a little different.
The Surprising Story of the Berkeley Attorneys Who Helped Desegregate the South
By Rob GunnisonAnthony Lee simply wanted to go to high school.
