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Obama and Trump talk in the oval office

How do we talk politics in these heated times?

October 26, 2018

A friendly chat between rivals: Robert Reich...

March 21, 2018
UC Berkeley sophomore Manu Meel (middle right) speaks during a forum on Free Speech at the BAMPFA. The other panelists included, from left: Ira Glasser, the former head of the ACLU; Charlene Stern, director of "Near Normal Man;" Ben Stern, an activist, educator and Holocaust survivor; moderator Edward Wasserman, dean of Berkeley's journalism school; Meel; Luis Tenorio, a sociology Ph.D candidate and director of Queer and Trans Advocacy Project at UC Berkeley; and Simone Dill, a senior film and media studies major and president of the Cal Black Student Union. (UC Berkeley photo by Jeremy Snowden)

Do Nazis have free speech rights? Campus...

January 29, 2018
Under the revised Major Events policy, event organizers who want to invite guests who could draw large crowds — like Senator Bernie Sanders, who visited UC Berkeley in June 2016 — will need to give campus six weeks notice instead of eight. (UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small)

New campus event policy simplified after student,...

January 18, 2018
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In this Berkeley seminar, knowledge begins...

December 13, 2017
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Podcast: Growing up without free speech like...

November 21, 2017
Mark Bray, an adjunct professor of history at Dartmouth College and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, speaks at UC Berkeley on Monday, Nov. 13. (UC Berkeley photo by Thomas Texeira)

Campus speaker: Who is Antifa, anyway?

November 14, 2017
Clay Halbert, a second year physics and philosophy major, makes remarks on behalf of the Cal Dems club during the annual "Great Debate" between the liberal and conservative students. (UC Berkeley photo by Jeremy Snowden)

In ‘Great Debate,’ students talk policy,...

November 9, 2017
Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, gives a talk about how the competition of ideas can reunite the country. (UC Berkeley photo by Hulda Nelson)

Conservative thinker to Berkeley: Open your...

November 2, 2017

Sociologist Neil Smelser, campus leader and...

October 12, 2017
Professor Robert Reich speaks to the crowd about free speech in an era of digital media. (UC Berkeley photo by Hulda Nelson)

Scholars debate: Does social media help or hurt free...

October 5, 2017
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Ask Me Anything — Berkeley Law dean answers...

October 4, 2017
Alexa Koenig, executive director of the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, U.N. high commissioner on human rights, and Brad Smith, president of Microsoft.

Technology’s role in protecting free speech

October 2, 2017
Students sit on the West Crescent lawn during "Free Speech Week." (UC Berkeley photo by Hulda Nelson)

As ‘Free Speech Week’ winds down, a turn...

September 27, 2017
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‘We reject blatant acts of hatred, hostility...

September 26, 2017
Viewpoints are shared before a campus visit by Milo Yiannopoulis. (UC Berkeley / Khaled Sayed.)

Yiannopolous visit marked by peaceful protests

September 24, 2017

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