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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this 2003 conversation, founder Don Swatman recounts how the paper began as a modest, typewritten project in the Dental ...

Note: This article appears in Synapse’s 70th anniversary print edition, produced to mark seven decades of student journalism at UCSF and available in print at locations across campus. In my junior ...