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Here’s What It Could Look Like to Defund the Police

As protests have swept the nation in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the call to defund and abolish the police has also swept social media and marched its way into the national dialogue.

Posted on June 16, 2020 - 11:39am

Should “Harmful Speech” Be Punished in the U.S.?

UC Berkeley played host to myriad free speech controversies this year—including violent Antifa protests of conservative pundit Milo Yiannopoulos and a proposed faculty boycott of classes during Free Speech Week—much of it predicated on the assumption that speech is harmful.

Posted on November 6, 2017 - 2:20pm

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