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Many Americans are skeptical. Consumer confidence has fallen ( https://apnews.com/article/ consumer-confidence-inflation-fda8125b8b8f4929b1528046d84275 8f), and Trump ...

On my kitchen wall there’s a poster with a slogan from World War II Britain: “Keep Calm and Carry On.” In the wake of the recent presidential debate (also known as The Debacle), pundit wannabes could ...

Berkeley City Hall’s efforts to enable the University of California's expansion in Berkeley have taken a new turn. Having already facilitated the school’s colonization of residential areas in ...

Now that I have been so slow to finish off this Activist’s Diary and fallen into covering two weeks of meetings, it feels like the world has shifted again. Trump’s visit with Viktor Orban at ...

Buckle up After multiple stops and starts, I hope to finally get this off my desk. It has taken nearly three weeks from my first day of COVID episode two (the first was Delta in 2021) to feel normal ...

Two disturbing responses to last night's City Council meeting. The first, Sophie Hahn's shocking statement at Kate Harrison's resignation. Ms Harrison carefully delineated her principled stand in her ...

Update: Councilmember Harrison has informed the Planet that she is continuing her campaign for Mayor of Berkeley. The election for that office is in November. I have decided to resign from the ...

The plight of hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians, now in Rafah, waiting for hours in line for minimal food, paints a distressing picture. The severe backlog of aid trucks at the Rafah ...

I understand that you also are an attorney. I practiced law in Washington state for 25 years. As a Cal alum (Class of 1982), I am grateful for my academic and social education at UC Berkeley. I was an ...

Russian-born pianist Daniil Trifonov exhibits what can only be called wizardry, for no matter what music he plays, Trifonov turns it to gold. I have heard Trifonov play Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Bach, ...

In 1932 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis coined the metaphor describing state and local governments as ‘laboratories of democracy.’ Cities like Berkeley can be more responsive to the public ...