Berkeley Political Review

UC Berkeley's Only Non-Partisan Political Magazine

The Future is for Sale on Polymarket

The 2024 U.S. presidential election was one of the most disheartening nights of the last year. It was also the first time I heard about Polymarket. This was not a coincidence, of course. As a group of friends and I were crammed in a claustrophobic dorm room watching a map of states flipping

Holy War: Blood for God in Israel-Palestine

Holy War: Blood for God in Israel-Palestine

Examining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an exercise in déjà vu. The deaths of an old man, a young child, and

April 8, 2023
Rise in Terrorist Attacks Sparks Tensions on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border

Rise in Terrorist Attacks Sparks Tensions on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border

A recent bombing of a Peshawar mosque by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban or Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has prompted

March 18, 2023
Democracy Under Attack in the United Kingdom

Democracy Under Attack in the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, the right to protest is under direct assault by the Conservative government. However, some of their

March 17, 2023
IOC Bans 2024 Olympic Athletes Due to Nationality

IOC Bans 2024 Olympic Athletes Due to Nationality

"There is no such thing as neutrality when a war like this is going on, it is obvious that any

March 12, 2023
Brazil’s Role as a Global Laboratory of War Against Misinformation

Brazil’s Role as a Global Laboratory of War Against Misinformation

In 2018, a video of former President Barack Obama calling his successor Donald Trump a series of expletives gained traction

March 8, 2023
What to Make of the Rise in Catalytic Converter Theft in California

What to Make of the Rise in Catalytic Converter Theft in California

In September of last year, my car’s catalytic converter was stolen. As a college student with minimal experience with cars, I

March 7, 2023
Blue Generation: Gen Z and the Democratic Party

Blue Generation: Gen Z and the Democratic Party

By a two-to-one margin, young voters (between the ages of 18 and 29) backed the Democratic Party in the 2022

March 7, 2023
Papa Louie: A Reflection of Labor Exploitation

Papa Louie: A Reflection of Labor Exploitation

It’s 2014. You sit in front of a boxy beige computer. The air smells like EXPO markers as you listen

February 25, 2023
American Land Belongs in American Hands

American Land Belongs in American Hands

The very essence of the American Dream is under threat today—Wall Street private equity groups are buying up the land

February 22, 2023
Climate “Loss and Damage” Can Change and Restitute the Future

Climate “Loss and Damage” Can Change and Restitute the Future

This November, the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) brought the world together in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, for an intervention

India’s Progressive Step in LGBTQ+ Rights

India’s Progressive Step in LGBTQ+ Rights

Deepika Singh vs. Central Administrative Tribunal and others A recent Indian Supreme Court ruling has acknowledged the existence of nontraditional

February 11, 2023
Environmental Justice Through Clean Cooking

Environmental Justice Through Clean Cooking

Your kitchen fills up with smoke. Your immediate reactions are a) your meal is probably jeopardized and b) you should

Tackling Teichert: Protecting Local Farmland in Yolo County

Tackling Teichert: Protecting Local Farmland in Yolo County

In the ancestral homeland of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, nearly 80 miles northeast of San Francisco, lies the region

February 2, 2023
Get Ready for our Newest Style Icon: Capitalism

Get Ready for our Newest Style Icon: Capitalism

So you want to be “that girl”? Will that be cash or card? Though Paris Fashion Week concluded its last

December 25, 2022
The Quiet Menace of Court Packing

The Quiet Menace of Court Packing

The Supreme Court has a credibility problem: a 40% approval rating, to be precise. Such a number is par for

December 14, 2022
Gathering Flood: The UFW Marches Across the Central Valley

Gathering Flood: The UFW Marches Across the Central Valley

Like a gathering flood, the United Farm Workers-led caravan of protestors surged toward the state capitol. Along the capitol mall,

December 14, 2022
FIFA’s Long History of Corruption Amid Qatar Controversy

FIFA’s Long History of Corruption Amid Qatar Controversy

On November 20th, 2022, the Federation Internationale de Football Association World Cup began. This year, Qatar, a small country of

December 13, 2022
What is Driving the Rise of Anti-Immigration Sentiment in Europe?

What is Driving the Rise of Anti-Immigration Sentiment in Europe?

As the far-right Sweden Democrats party won 20 percent of the votes in Sweden’s general election this September, many predict

December 9, 2022
The Shadiness of Congressional Stock Trading

The Shadiness of Congressional Stock Trading

In late January 2020, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee met with CDC director Robert Redfield and White House pandemic

December 7, 2022
The Rise of Pseudo-Progressivism: What do the Federal Reserve and GameStop Have in Common?

The Rise of Pseudo-Progressivism: What do the Federal Reserve and GameStop Have in Common?

Over the past decade, inequality has been recognized as one of the most important political problems of the 21st Century.

December 5, 2022
Ten Years Post-Reform, How Are California’s Congressional Maps Still Unfair?

Ten Years Post-Reform, How Are California’s Congressional Maps Still Unfair?

What a success story for California! After decades of Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature rigging Congressional maps through

December 5, 2022