A UC Berkeley historian explores how commonly used modern-day business practices evolved from methods used in the operation of brutal slave plantations.

A book edited by UC Berkeley's Nancy Burke provides a comprehensive and critical look at the history, construction, and circulation of the Cuban healthcare system in a global context.

A team of UC Berkeley researchers warn that by 2100, climate change will cause rampant starvation and disease in the Sahel, a region in Africa, unless measures are taken to promote agricultural adaptation, family planning, and women’s empowerment.

Invisible Users, a book by UC Berkeley's Jenna Burrell, explores the youth culture of Internet cafés in Ghana, which upends expectations about the power and purpose of technology.

Migrant farmworkers are subject to social and economic inequalities that put them at greater risk of hardship and injury, according to a book by UC Berkeley’s Seth Holmes.

Governments have to do more to reduce income inequality, says UC Berkeley's Robert Reich.

Why did the city-state model give way to the nation-state—and what does Boston have to do it?

Through overcrowding, lockdowns, and medical neglect, the conditions in U.S. prisons have become unconstitutional, according to UC Berkeley legal scholar Jonathan Simon.

New research on why state-building interventions succeed in some nations and not others.

A groundbreaking long-term study by UC Berkeley researchers shows that playing with children has a profound impact on their future incomes.