This is the mind’s game behind polarization in humans: our opinions are often less about truth and more about identity.

President Barack Obama moved last week to reverse a U.S. policy restricting international abortion-related services. A policy known as the “Mexico City Policy” or the “Global Gag Rule” banned USAID ...

Synapse at the time was shaped by the remarkable Tim Neagle, the most talented writer and journalist I’ve ever met. After a decade as a National News editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, he joined ...

People died on the streets from heatstroke, and in the emergency room of Oroville Hospital and in the waiting rooms of the ...

We had a core of members of the Editorial Board who were committed to Equity and Justice. For some, the paper was referred to ...

William O’Sullivan, who goes by Bill, is a long-time patron of the UCSF Gym and an institution within this campus’ mighty ...

This British film about a young black optometrist who seeks out her birth mother after the death of her adopted mother stands ...

Seventy years on, the paper’s through-line is not a single political position, but a commitment to voice: to documenting how ...

I have not watched the George Floyd video. In fact, I have not watched the Ahmaud Aubrey, Eric Garner, or any of the other recordings of police brutality. I do not need to watch the video to know what ...

This is part 3 of the limited series on the celebrated haute couture designer, Christian Dior. Christian Dior presented his first haute couture collection, named “Corolle,” in February 1947 at 30 ...

After years of internal debate, I finally got my first tattoo. He’s a small lizard, with a topological map design inside, scaling the outer edge of my left ankle. His fine lines and tasteful detail ...