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Berkeley Law's Ian Haney López on defeating racial fearmongering
Author Andrew Marantz on the hijacking of the American conversation
Biologist E.O. Wilson on how to save the natural world
Journalist Maggie Haberman on reporting on the Trump White House
Barbara Simons on election hacking and how to avoid it in 2020
Nobel laureate Randy Schekman on new Parkison's research
Justice Elena Kagan on taking risks, finding common ground
Admissions director Femi Ogundele on what makes a Berkeley student
john powell on rejecting white supremacy, embracing belonging
We need a digital infrastructure that serves humanity, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci
Take an intoxicating plants tour at UC Botanical Garden
How an 'awe walk' helped one musician reconnect with her home
Economist Samuel Bowles on why good incentives are no substitute for good citizens
Music historian David James on cinema's dance with popular music
Joel Moskowitz on the health risks of cell phone radiation
What can be done to protect pollinators
#SandraBlandMystery: Aaminah Norris on the transmedia story of police brutality
Virgie Tovar on ending fat phobia
Berkeley artist Mildred Howard on the impact of gentrification in the Bay Area
'New York Times' editor on the future of fact-based journalism
Feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon on the butterfly politics of #MeToo
Tanner Lectures, day 3: Commentators respond to Ripstein, discuss morality of war
john powell on targeted universalism
Tanner Lectures, day 2: Arthur Ripstein on why it's wrong to target civilians during war
Tanner Lectures, day 1: Arthur Ripstein on rules for wrongdoers
Kira Stoll and David Wooley on how California and UC are reducing carbon emissions
Dr. Joe Tafur on the role of spiritual and emotional healing in modern healthcare
Professor David Raulet on the revolution of cancer immunology
Cal Performances announces its 2019-20 season
Professor Rucker Johnson on why school integration works
Rev. William J. Barber II: 'Forward together, not one step back'
Jennifer Doudna on the future of gene editing
Calculating your carbon footprint and the Cool Campus Challenge
Product engineer Amy Heineike on how humans and machines interact with AI
Programmer and author Ellen Ullman on her life in code
Neurobiologist David Presti on the ritual use of psychoactive plants
Poet Tarfia Faizullah reads from 'Registers of Illuminated Villages'
Author Ashton Applewhite on counteracting ageism
Jimmy López on composing 'Dreamers' oratorio inspired by Berkeley undocumented students
Michael Pollan with Dacher Keltner on the new science of psychedelics
Talk Policy to Me: The California housing crisis
Professor Michael Omi on racial classification in the census
Year of the woman: Panel on the recent rise of women in politics
Dancer Akram Khan on performing the unimaginable, theater of war
Berkeley Law Professor Catherine Fisk on reimagining labor law
East Bay poet Ari Banias reads new work at Lunch Poems
Richard Rothstein on how our government segregated America
Panel discussion: The Changing California Electorate
Professor Tina Sacks on maintaining social welfare programs in the Trump era
Design anthropologist Dori Tunstall on decolonizing design
Ph.D. candidate Rosalie Lawrence on how our cells make decisions
New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor on breaking the story that ignited #MeToo
Berkeley Law Professor Daniel Farber on presidential power and individual rights
Astronomer Bob Kirshner on the accelerating universe to accelerating science
Clinicians discuss where health and human rights meet
Michael Pollan on science, psychedelics and the human mind
Jennifer Doudna on gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolution
Anthropologist Eugenie Scott on evolution and creationism as science and myth
Robert Reich on why the common good disappeared and how we get it back
Artistic Director Robert Battle on the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Commentator Van Jones on seeking environmental justice during climate change