The Edge Episode 31: Bad Bunny with Petra Rivera-Rideau
How did a SoundCloud rapper singing entirely in Spanish become the most streamed artist in the world?
Berkeley Statistician Doesn’t Like Our Odds with AI
By Lizzy Rager, M.J. ’27Leading a faculty group on AI risks, Will Fithian warns labs are playing "Russian roulette" with humanity.
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Q&A: Noura Erakat’s Long Fight
The author and human rights attorney on Berkeley activism and what keeps her advocating for Palestinians.
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From the Archives
Stiles Hall, Always in Style
From the beginning, Stiles Hall has been a safe haven for students. For Arlinda Ruiz the road to higher education was not an easy one. A 45-year-old domestic violence survivor, she worried there wouldn’t be a place for her in the world of academia. “I’m this short Mexican girl, dark, Indigenous, blasted up with tattoos,” […]
Wild, Wild Life
Is California’s elusive puma moving into the urban jungle? Around 2 a.m. on Tuesday, August 31, Berkeley police were alerted to a surprise visitor, a young mountain lion roaming the streets behind the famous Chez Panisse restaurant. An agile jumper (pumas can leap as high as 18 feet and as far as 40 feet), the cat […]
Q&A: Daniel Ziblatt on Trump and How Democracies Die
Daniel Ziblatt has spent a career studying why democracies develop and how they die. Along with his co-author and fellow UC Berkeley alumnus, Steven Levitsky, he has done so from a perch at Harvard, and his focus has always been different places and times: Ziblatt is an expert on democracy in modern Europe, including the age […]
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