Dear Dying Crackberry, I Haven’t Forgotten Your Pleasures. Remember when Blackberries were all the rage? When using the iconic trackball to check your email meant you were someone important? In the midst of Blackberry’s probable demise, Zócalo editorial director Andrés Martinez reminisces about the phone’s golden years and speculates about the causes of its downfall.

California’s Coast Doesn’t Have a Sustainability Monopoly. As dirt blows into Huron, California from the fields of the San Joaquin valley, only to be kicked up again by fully loaded semis barreling through on State Route 269, Zócalo associate editor Lisa Margonelli wonders how a town this brown can be green? She talks to resident Ray Leon, who intends to show that sustainability isn’t to be found in solar panels, big spending, or revolutionary ideas, but in the harnessing of strengths that this community already has. He says, “Ideas about sustainability usually come from the outside, but I had an idea about them coming from within.”

There Is No ‘We’ in Feminism. For this round of Squaring Off, we pose questions to Barnard University President Debora Spar, author of Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection, who 21 years ago contemplated the idea of “having it all” while pumping breast milk in a LaGuardia airport bathroom stall between flights. In a Q&A conducted by Liza Mundy, Spar discusses the neglect of the feminist movement’s original collective vision and the realities of achieving a work-life balance.

Here’s How Janet Napolitano Rescues the University of California. Last week, Janet Napolitano took over as president of the UC system. With no real experience in academia, why is she here—and how can she save the University of California?  UC Berkeley’s John Aubrey Douglass addresses these questions and lays to rest many of the most common misconceptions about the University of California.

Reporter Jennifer Medina. Before talking to Harold Meyerson, New York Times correspondent Jennifer Medina dished about her favorite under-the-radar L.A. restaurant, shared the best advice she’s ever gotten, and confessed to doing something called Yoga Booty Ballet.

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