2016 Berkeley mayoral runner-up Laurie Capitelli: ‘I’m glad I’m not the mayor’
A year ago, eight people campaigned for the mayorship of Berkeley, held for 14 years by Tom Bates.
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Category Archives: Election 2016 Retrospective Issue
The burden of representation
At the hub of modern college activism, Cal student-athletes are afraid to speak out. Why?
629 days before Colin Kaepernick first took a knee during the national anthem on a late summer night last year, Mikayla Cowling pulled out her phone and opened up Twitter.
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On the environment, Californians fight back against Trump
He has led millions of Americans to doubt the basic concepts of truth, facts, evidence and science.
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My body, my business: The fate of birth control in the Trump era
The most devastating of these promises, Trump’s rollback of Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate, now allows employers to opt out of no-cost birth control coverage for religious or “moral” reasons.
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A nation divided
I don’t have any profound wisdom to offer, or a bumper sticker resolution about trying to “figure this shit out together, man.” But I would like to reflect — for me.
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Canadian privilege: Picking up after Trump and the United States
On the day that the U.S. presidential election results were announced, the Canadian immigration website crashed.
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