[Originally published in Synapse on January 29, 2009.] President Barack Obama moved last week to reverse a U.S. policy restricting...

[Originally published in Synapse on Jan. 16, 1997.] I suppose I should begin with a qualifying statement. I am not...

In this 2003 conversation, founder Don Swatman recounts how the paper began as a modest, typewritten project in the Dental...

1956-57 Synapse arrived not as a rebel publication but as an act of institutional optimism.

[Originally published in Synapse on Dec. 12, 1993.] To decorate a Christmas tree Is very hard, you know.

[Originally published in Synapse on December 2001.] It’s been one of those days. You lock yourself out of your car...

[Originally published in Synapse on December 4, 1996.] I remember the morning after Proposition 187 passed. Schools and health care...

[Originally published in Synapse on November 12, 1981.] The theme of this year’s American Public Health Association convention was “Energy...

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