That too goes for community support networks. While the deal that ended the government shutdown guarantees SNAP funding ...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] ...

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It’s been one of those days. You lock yourself out of your car. You get into an argument with a loved one. Your professor decides to assign an additional packet of readings over Thanksgiving break to ...

Originally published in Synapse on December 4, 1996. I remember the morning after Proposition 187 passed. I was a third-year student in medicine. My team — residents, interns, and students — all sat ...

The California Medical Association (CMA) convenes physicians from across the state annually at its House of Delegatesmeeting, represented by county medical society sections (such as San Francisco - ...

Were fleeting ghosts or if we should stay, I feel the weight of first love fray. I fear the feelings are bound to pass, Yet still I am, was, and stayed They seduce and they smile, they brood and they ...

Originally published in Synapse on April 12, 1974. Dr. Louis Jolyon West, Director of the Neuropsychiatry Institute at UCLA and head of the university’s proposed Center for the Study of the Reduction ...

Originally published in Synapse on March 15, 1984. The women’s movement in this country must be broadened to address issues relevant to Black and working-class people, political activist Angela Davis ...

Hunger is a natural part of life, but have you ever stopped to consider why you’re feeling hungry? Understanding the difference between physiological and psychological hunger can help you make more ...

Each morning, I rise — Odysseus at sea, The horizon shifts, but the Sirens tempt me. On the bird’s eye — past the haze. No feast, no whisper, no fleeting song, Can pull me from where I belong. I burn ...