If you need more persuasion to get to the polling booth, Proposition 22, also known as the Knight Initiative, should...

Originally published on February 11, 2010. Is love possible between two people with opposing political views? New York City held...

Seated in plain sight he is invisible The passersby halt for a moment to note That something might be there...

******* is a 50-year-old *******-speaking WOMAN, Present in the EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT. Immigrant from El Salvador.

With one hand pressed over the gash above my left eye in an effort to provide some hemostasis, I hurriedly...

Editor's note: To honor February as Black History Month, Synapse offers "snapshots" of significant dates in African-American history.

“I don’t think his personal problems should be a reason to remove him from office. It doesn’t represent high crimes...

They tell us we have options innumerable An unseen multiple choice test, and even Better - we do the grading...

Originally published on January 20, 1977. Student and labor groups, anticipating the possible effect of the Bakke decision on minority...

“When does the Clinic open?” I hear amongst the bustle as I walk down the crowded aisles of beds at...

Hometown: Santa Rosa, CA Undergraduate Institution/Major: CSU Chico/Physics Third year graduate student in biophysics. What led you to choose your...

Originally published in Synapse on Dec. 1, 1977. Advocates of decriminalizing heroin received a powerful shot in the arm from...

At the Nov. 20 UC Regents meeting, Chancellor Haile Debas proposed the formation of a partnership between UCSF and a...

Originally published in Synapse on Nov. 21, 1996. Before 1973, the year Roe vs. Wade guaranteed women the right to...

Editor's note: Ninad Bhat's "Patience" took second place in the Synapse Storytelling Contest creative writing, poetry category. The room is...