Barbara Boxer

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., discussed threats to American democracy and the role of women’s leadership at former senator Barbara Boxer’s annual campus lecture Monday. 

The Bay Area Women in Politics Oral History Project celebrated its launch Wednesday with a livestreamed panel discussing the past and future of local women in politics.

Earlier this summer, I sat down for a telephone interview with Sen. Boxer. We discussed her career, the lawmaking process and how Congress has changed.

The summit, which was launched by Politico in 2013, features influential women who work toward female empowerment and is “devoted to expanding leadership opportunities for all women,” according to Politico’s website.

With the proliferation of protests on college campuses, the University of California, birthplace of the free speech movement, announced plans Thursday to launch a national center to study First Amendment issues in Washington D.C.

Are Feinstein and Pelosi well-equipped to handle this new age of the unknown? Or is it time for a new generation of political leaders to step in?

A recent poll by the campus Institute of Governmental Studies has found that support for a potential re-election bid by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, dropped six percentage points among California voters when they were informed about her age.

Current state Attorney General Kamala Harris and U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez — both members of the Democratic party — are running to fill the vacancy left by U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, who has served as one of California’s senators since 1993.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California) announced the donation of two decades of her congressional papers to UC Berkeley — including the largest digital collection Bancroft Library has ever received — on Thursday morning.

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign made its way to an Oakland elementary school gymnasium Friday, where Clinton spoke at a rally about topics ranging from the gender pay gap to college tuition.