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September 11, 2024
California Has Dramatically Improved Its Air Quality, but Racial Disparities Persist
The state’s aggressive emissions policies have reduced exposure to PM2.5 air pollution by 65% since 2000, but low-income communities of color still breathe the dirtiest air.
September 9, 2024
Fascism Shattered Europe a Century Ago — and Historians Hear Echoes Today in the U.S.
After the mass death and destruction of World War I, Italy and Germany turned from democracy to dictatorships. UC Berkeley scholars see troubling parallels in contemporary American democracy.
September 9, 2024
New Palestinian and Arab Studies Program Established at UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley's Division of Social Sciences has announced an endowed program and chair in Palestinian and Arab Studies to usher in a new era of research and scholarship in this critical field of study.