Berkeley Political Review
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Inside San Quentin: The Transformative Power of Education and Rehabilitation
Sydney Grundland Lanuza | California | October 4, 2025
Inside San Quentin and other California prisons, education and rehabilitation are transforming lives and challenging stigmas. Michael, an inmate in San Quentin, shares his story about how rehabilitation is benefiting people inside and outside the system.
A Faraway Rebel Group Upped Their Game Enough to Hurt the Average American
Despite the world being more connected than ever, much international conflict feels disconnected from people’s day-to-day lives when it has
The Rise of Developing Nations from the Chinese Net Decline
As cranes dotted skylines across Nairobi, Colombo, and Karachi in 2013, China’s vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) had sprung
The End of Ideology, the Rise of Identity
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama suggested that history had reached its end, not because events would cease, but because humanity had
The Dystopian Spiral of Third-Country Deportations
Shuttled out of countries under mysterious circumstances, dropped off in foreign states, and left with little legal recompense, the story
Remembering the City of Darkness
Near downtown Hong Kong, about a kilometer away from where Prince Edward Road East crosses the Kai Tak River, lies
Turning Point USA, November 10th, 2025
On Monday November 10, Turning Point USA had its final stop of a 2025 tour on campus at UC Berkeley.
David Oppenheimer on the Importance of Diversity & the War on DEI
With the recent suppression of DEI initiatives by the Trump administration and a war on diversity, Berkeley Law professor David
Seizing the Means of Electrification in California
The typical scheme for electric utilities places customers in one of two bins: investor-owned or city-owned. There is a perennial
The New “Clear and Present Danger” to the United States is Trumpist Aggression
On Sep. 1, 2025, a U.S. Navy combat aircraft illegally sunk a ship in international waters off the coast of
Is Political Violence Ever Okay?
Slavery in the United States was a violent regime built on the systemic dehumanization of enslaved Black people. White slaveholders
Netanyahu Faces the World, and the World Walks Out
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Sep. 26, 2025, symbolism
Geopolitical Tug-of-War: Moldova Decides Between an EU or Russian Future
Between Romania and Ukraine, a tiny country in Eastern Europe is choosing its path for the future in historic parliamentary