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Global Holiday Bites

I-House alumni share family recipes from Tunisia, Madagascar, Reunion Island, and beyond.
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“Palestine 101”

A new program at Berkeley—one of the first of its kind in the nation—examines Palestinian history and culture, beyond conflict.
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Here’s Why You Can’t Get Home Insurance in California

Dave Jones explains why the current system is failing homeowners.

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Please Allow Him to Introduce Himself

By Pat Joseph

Rich Lyons is Berkeley's 12th—and rockingest—chancellor.
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Math Education Needs Reform. It Got a War Instead.

By Nathalia Alcantara

Decoding the debates over high school data science
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The Wild Ride of College Sports

By Ron Kroichick

How a bevy of recent changes are shaking up the game
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By Leah Worthington

Transfers find deluxe digs at Anchor House.

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Stories from University Development and Alumni Relations highlighting the positive impact of donor support on our students, faculty, research, and facilities.

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Solving for Doomsday

Harold Camping ’42 thought he had calculated when the world would end. Ten years after his death, he still has plenty to teach us about the dangers and appeal of “doing your own research.”
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The Edge Episode 26: Psychedelics with Gül Dölen

Octopuses and humans have very little in common, but there’s one surprising thing we do seem to share: MDMA makes us both a lot cuddlier.

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A Survival Guide for Difficult Conversations

Goldman School’s Erika Weissinger on how we can talk—and listen—across our deepest divides.

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Berkeley Buffet

A new course enables students to sample the campus’s intellectual riches

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Losing Joan Didion

Writer Joan Didion, who graduated from Berkeley in 1956, died on December 23, 2021, at age 87. She will be remembered as one of the most distinctive voices not only of her generation but in all of American letters. 

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 […]

His Truth is Marching On

Rousas John Rushdoony and the rise of Christian conservatives
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