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In May, BESI convened a panel of housing researchers and policy makers to discuss the obstacles to effective housing production in blue trifectas.

37% of Americans live in states governed by blue trifectas. What opportunities and challenges does this present for Democratic Party officials?

On May 20, BESI invited expert climate policymakers and researchers to weigh in on decarbonization challenges and opportunities in blue trifectas.

Disinformation and far-right digital media expert Becca Lewis recounts how right-wing politics came to Silicon Valley decades before DOGE.

BESI senior researcher Sam Trachtman discusses a new paper he co-authored for the journal Energy Policy.

Political scientist Michael Shepherd shows how partisan politics at elite and mass levels explain the growing rural-urban health divide in the US.

BESI and UC Berkeley Sociology earlier this month hosted a conference in celebration and tribute to the work of Neil Fligstein, who recently retired from his long-time position at UC Berkeley.

Social scientist Jathan Sadowski demystifies how the two systems of technology and capitalism work together.

BESI hosted a candid discussion on addressing California’s housing crisis with academics, practitioners, and nationally acclaimed journalists. Senior researcher Samuel Trachtman reflects on key takeaways.

In early April, business leaders, policy experts, and academics convened in Boston for the first-ever symposium hosted by the new Green Industrial Strategy (GISt) Project to discuss the future of the green industrial strategy "golden age" of the early 2020s.

On March 11, BESI welcomed Yoni Appelbaum and Jerusalem Demsas for a highly anticipated conversation on America’s housing crisis and the decline of mobility in this country.

On February 11, BESI invited legal and political scholars from across the UC Berkeley campus to help contextualize a rapidly infolding constitutional crisis.