When Policy Undermines Public Health: The Human Cost of Funding Cuts

[Originally published in Synapse on February 11, 1999.] Ever since New Year’s Day, it seems the world has been swathed...

[Originally published in Synapse on Nov. 12, 2009.] Before coming to UCSF, I was a soldier in Operation Iraqi Freedom...

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When Southwest Airlines canceled system-wide flights during the 2022 winter holidays, stranded passengers sleeping in airport hallways made headlines. The...

We are in the third year of the three-day Russian “military exercise” into Ukraine, and with the incoming American political...

In his essay “ Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau writes: “Can there not be a...

According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change service, 2024 is set to be yet another hottest year ever recorded...

[Originally published in Synapse on September 22, 1988.] Our colleges and universities have come under highly critical consideration of late...