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Cal for All: Advancing Sustainable and Equitable Futures

Creating lasting change requires collaboration across industries, communities, and generations. Dr. Yvette Gullatt ’88, M.A. ’94, Ph.D. ’05  will discuss ways innovation, sustainability, and equity can drive a better future.

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Pearls of Dalmatia: Dubrovnik & the Island of Hvar 2024 [on request; singles: waitlist only]

September 28 - October 12, 2024
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A Season of Discontent

The Free Speech Movement, as reported in real time by California Monthly
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Wildfire in Redwood Valley, CA, on July 16, 2017. Photo by Bob Dass. CC BY 2.0.

Here’s Why You Can’t Get Home Insurance in California

As wildfires abound in California, the state faces a mounting insurance crisis. Dave Jones explains why the current system is failing homeowners.
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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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Exit Interview with the Chancellor

By Pat Joseph

After seven years at the helm, Carol Christ hangs up her iconic blue blazer. Before she headed out the door, California sat down with her for a final interview.

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Solving for Doomsday

By Hayden Royster

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 Bedrock of Good Journalism

By Francisco Martínezcuello

2024 Alum of the Year Bill Whitaker brings integrity to his storytelling.
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What to Read, Watch, and Listen to This Summer

By California magazine editors

Here are our favorite books, shows, and podcasts by people from Berkeley to enjoy this summer.

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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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More Berkeley on the Jukebox

Volume II in our growing playlist of Cal-connected music.

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To Infinity (Err, Umm, the Moon) and Beyond

NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg Ph.D. ’13 on life in space and why returning humans to the Moon matters.

Free Speech Rhetoric and Reality: Why Savio, Kerr and Reagan Were All “Radicals”

Decades after the Free Speech Movement, we look back at the three figures central to the conflict.
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Fuzzy Logic, Boxed Salad, and No-Fault Divorce

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The Strange Case of Ex-Radical David Horowitz

Most people don’t change their political stripes. David Horowitz isn’t most people. It was the summer of 1970, and the war in Vietnam was never going to end. B-52s were carpet-bombing Cambodia, gouging craters into its eastern hills; across the border, angry G.I.s were fragging their officers. Back home, radicals were bombing police stations and […]

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Most people make mix tapes. Warren Hellman threw a music festival and invited his friends. Warren Hellman was driving home to San Francisco from Stinson Beach a while back when he saw a woman hitchhiking. He pulled over. “I said, ‘Are you an axe murderer or anything?’ She said, ‘No, I’m OK, are you?’ So she […]

Politically Homeless: Q&A With Columnist Max Boot

CALIFORNIA Magazine: In the prologue of your new book, The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right, you say you are now “perceiving ugly truths about America and about conservatism that other people had long seen but I turned a blind eye to.” What are some of those ugly truths? Max Boot: As an […]
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