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Reader Response

We asked for your takes on college football’s new economy. You sent emails, lots of them.

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Mixed Media

By Editorial Staff

New works by Berkeley authors and artists

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Q&A: Noura Erakat’s Long Fight

By Hussain Khan, M.J. ’25

The author and human rights attorney on Berkeley activism and what keeps her advocating for Palestinians.

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Berkeley Statistician Doesn’t Like Our Odds with AI

By Lizzy Rager, M.J. ’27

Leading a faculty group on AI risks, Will Fithian warns labs are playing "Russian roulette" with humanity.

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The Calgorithm: The Book?

By Jason Turbow

The Calgorithm’s pin on the 2024 season is a 297-page book.

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2025 Fall/Winter Cover Key

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2025 Fall/Winter Cover Key

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Read, Watch, Listen

By Editorial Staff

This month’s picks of Berkeley-connected books, films, and podcasts

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_{“Red Carpet” at Zellerbach Hall.
Photo by Chris Hardy.}

How Cal Performances Rolled Out the “Red Carpet”

By Leah Worthington

The Paris Opera Ballet’s latest production made just two stops in the US, opening at Berkeley.

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Managing Wildfire for All It’s Worth

By Coby McDonald

Q&A with Lenya Quinn-Davidson

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Q&A: Colin Allred Isn’t Worried About Ideology

By Grace Benninghoff

The Berkeley Law grad talks about his second run for the Senate.

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Q&A: Professor David Hausman on Tracking Mass Deportations

By Margie Cullen

Trump promised to deport the “worst of the worst.” Here’s what the data actually shows.

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Your Reading List for This Month

Editors’ picks of recent works by Berkeley authors

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The Poetry of Impurity

By Geoff Koch

A conversation with John Shoptaw and Jenny Odell

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_{McLeod films an exposed pile of radioactive uranium tailings in Tuba City, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. (Photo by Randy Hayes)}

Lessons in Humility and Persistence

By Andrea Lampros

Filmmaker Toby McLeod has spent four decades amplifying Indigenous voices—while wrestling with how to tell stories not his own.

Recent Works by Berkeley Authors and Artists

By Editorial Staff

Editors’ picks for books, documentaries, and exhibits to check this month

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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a … Conlang?

By Alexander Rony

David J. Peterson created languages for Superman, Dune, and Game of Thrones. It all started with courses at Berkeley.

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Please Don’t Call Me a Liberal

By Leah Worthington

Q&A with historian Kevin Schultz, author of Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals)

Kim Ricardo

Kim D. Ricardo ‘99, was awarded Inaugural Lucy Sprague Professorship In Public Interest last month. Ricardo’s personal and professional commitment to deepening society’s collective understanding of how group-based differences such as race, gender, and class impact the unequal distribution of resources, paralleled with her mission to advance social justice causes and uplift the voices of […]