Social Sciences

From AI-powered social media content creation to college access platforms, cognitive science student entrepreneurs pitched their startups to potential investors at the Berkeley Accelerator & Startup Incubator in Cognitive Science (BASICS) Spring Pitch Day.

Students presented ventures developed through the BASICS course to a panel of investors and startup experts including Erik Leklem, regional operations director at the Institute for Security Governance; Oguzhan Aygoren, director of the Institute for Business Innovation at the UC Berkeley...

Billionaire wealth has reached historic highs — and so has their power. UC Berkeley and Paris School of Economics Professor Gabriel Zucman, a world-renowned expert on wealth inequality and global tax evasion, warns that this growing concentration of extreme wealth is undermining democracy and allowing the ultra-rich to wield outsized influence over politics and society.

In his new book, “We Need to Tax Billionaires...

Siblings Sean and Bridget Dorr took very different paths to UC Berkeley. Last month, those paths converged when they graduated together with degrees in history.

Before arriving at Cal, Bridget transferred from community college after playing collegiate volleyball, while Sean returned to school after working in information technology and bartending.

Although they never shared a class, the siblings spent their time at Berkeley comparing professors, discussing coursework and encouraging one another through the...

Political Science Professor Eric Schickler was featured in article in The New York Times titled, "How Redistricting Is Making the Midterms Less Competitive."

All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for election in November, but fewer than a tenth of those races are likely to be competitive. And that number has been dwindling.

One culprit? The nationwide redistricting battles, in which Republicans and Democrats across the country have resorted to creative cartography to draw as many safe seats as possible as they fight for control of Congress.

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