James Vanderbilt’s rewarding manual on how to deal with dictators and war criminals.

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The Power of Lunch: Pioneering Berkeley chef Alice Waters makes the case for a climate-conscious cafeteria revolution.

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Jesse Stovall was a married, 35-year-old father of two who appeared to be obsessed with a 16-year-old girl. She was the star of Bear Swimming, the Berkeley-based swim team that he coached. Stovall’s ...

Blood & Money Part One: The Violence Olasunkanmi Onipede should know a little something about torture. An immigrant from Nigeria, he left behind a country that by 1994 had fallen under the iron hand ...

Environmentalists are outraged that CalOSHA cut fines to the oil giant in an incident in which four workers were killed ...

One giant fraud spawns ten thousand smaller frauds — that was one of the major lessons of the foreclosure crisis. A relatively small number of mortgage lenders issued millions of toxic home loans in ...

As he tells the story, David Brock’s life changed profoundly one day during his sophomore year at the University of California at Berkeley. On that day, he began a journey that would eventually lead ...

The City of Oakland lost a big whistleblower lawsuit yesterday in federal district court. The case, brought by Daryelle Lawana Preston, Oakland’s former director of employee relations, included ...

At the back end of a two-acre nursery lot in Oakland’s Sobrante Park neighborhood, where 105th Avenue dead-ends into Highway 880 and Lisjan Creek (otherwise known as San Lorenzo Creek) twists north on ...

Pamela Daniels lost her left leg to a Van Hool bus. In September 2005, she boarded one of AC Transit’s expensive new Belgian-made buses in downtown Oakland. But as the 51-year-old library assistant ...