Can you fact-check whether North Korea is a ‘regime’?
Rachel Lee/Staff
Although copy editors can edit out blatant lies and ugly slurs in the articles we’re given, here are some things we don’t fact-check: framing and omission.
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UC Berkeley lecturer accused of being CIA agent, campus faculty respond
Faculty members in UC Berkeley’s South and Southeast Asian studies department published a letter Friday to denounce allegations that campus lecturer Joseph Scalice is an agent with the CIA.
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Negotiating Didion
Kind of chaos
You can see why Joan Didion is so well known for her nonfiction. She takes a political event and transforms it, dresses it up, takes it out to lunch and then deconstructs it.
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‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ disappointingly misses target
“The Spy Who Dumped Me” has some fantastic laughs, each so well-written and delivered (by McKinnon) that it’s a shame the humor is often sidelined for a nonsensical action narrative.
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Former CIA agent discusses fear and religion at Berkeley Forum event
Author and former CIA agent Robert Baer led a discussion centered around the politics of faith and fear at a Berkeley Forum event Tuesday night.
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Former CIA director John Deutch speaks on campus Tuesday
More than 150 individuals filled Sutardja Dai Hall on Tuesday to hear from John Deutch, former director of Central Intelligence and MIT professor emeritus, who spoke about challenges facing the U.S. intelligence community.
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History professor at UC Berkeley, Princeton University dies at 100
Carl Schorske, a professor remembered fondly for his charismatic lectures, dedication to his students and his genius in the discipline of history, died last Sunday at the age of 100.
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Spying on our friends and our enemies
The Political Circus
How much is too much? And when our government has already overstepped its authority, what can we do to rein it back in? Earlier this week, allegations that the NSA was wiretapping not only domestic calls but also the calls of international leaders surfaced. More specifically, it was revealed that
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Lebanese Student Association withdraws from national network
After the president of the Lebanese Student Association at Berkeley resigned from his executive positions in both the club and national Lebanese Collegiate Network April 23, the association also separately decided to withdraw from the network. UC Berkeley senior Andrew Elkhoury said he left his position as elected vice president
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