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The Talk of Toilets in India

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The Mystery of CFC Emissions

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China’s Uighur Muslim Camps: The Face of Non-Western Islamophobia

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Did the Politicalization of the Supreme Court Start in California?

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Sharing is Caring: The Politics and Consequences of Trump’s Trade War

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2018’s October Surprise?: Hurricanes and What they Mean for the Midterm Elections

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“Snowflake” and the Decline in Civil Discourse

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Venezuela: A Textbook Case of How Socialism Breeds Dictatorship

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Creating A College Admissions Process Based On Disadvantage

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China v. the US: Tariff Threats and Redirection Techniques

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Did California Just Cash Out?

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Search Engine Politics: How Algorithms are Creating Political Controversy

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The Political Case Against Impeaching Trump

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Policy Shootout: Georgia Versus Delta Airlines

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Avoiding Traffic at All Costs: Is The Bullet Train Worth It?

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The Decrease of Psychiatrists in California: Another Battle for Mental Health

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To Spy or Not to Spy: Questions Raised by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

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Racial Inequalities Permeate the Legal Marijuana Market

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Afghan War: the Never Ending Struggle

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Fresno’s Future Fulton

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By Any Other Name: Kazakhstan’s Alphabet Migration

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The Power of Top-Two: How an Emerging Primary System is Changing the Game

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Turning the Golden State Green: California’s Reputation as an Environmental Savior

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The State of Pakistani Democracy

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Money Talks: The Cost of Free Speech on Campus

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Tale of Two States: Cameroon’s Crisis

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How to Steal a Nomination

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A crippled democracy? The 2017 Kenyan Presidential Election

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A Place Run by Criminals: An Insight into The American Prison

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Is Justice Bought?

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To Boldly Go Where No Military Branch Has Gone Before

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Myanmar’s Swiss Cheese Democracy

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Fake News is Real: The Rise of Computational Propaganda and Its Political Ramifications

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Gender Identity in Trump’s Military

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Pakistan’s “Godfather” Bites The Dust

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Statue Statutes: Will Renaming Bring Reconciliation?

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Electoral Breakthrough or Electoral Persistence? Forecasting AfD’s Future in the German Parliament

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The Beef Ban: A Symbol of Hindutva and a Threat to Indian Democracy

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Qui est Emmanuel Macron?

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A Matter of Pride and Prejudice: The Firing of FBI Director James Comey

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Separation of Church and State?: What the First Amendment Really Meant

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The Recession of the Pink Tide

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When the Fox Met the Golden Bear: Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Wasn’t Ready for Cal

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Montgomery, Alabama – Race Relations and Reforms

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100 Years of Mugabe?

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Unethical Yet Unsurprising: The GOP’s Latest Blow to Planned Parenthood

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Frozen in Place: Canada’s Arctic Policy

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Indonesia in the Democratic Recession

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The Coming Battle

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Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité threatened in 2017 French Election

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Aftermath: The Milo protests and where Berkeley went wrong

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Milo’s (Biblically?) Predestined Fall from Grace

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Tried and True? Obamacare and the Nationalization of American Policy

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Bolivarianism: A Fanfare for the Common Man?

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A Disunified Party in Power: Republicans off to a shaky start with ACA Repeal

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South Africa: Demographics and the One-Party State

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Modi’s 500 Rupee Solution for Ending Corruption

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Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act: The Bad and the Ugly

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What Happens to the Workers?: The Economic Implications of the Technological Revolution

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The Ill-Named Item Number

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On Brexit: Did Britain defy expectations or fulfill them by choosing to leave the E.U.?

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Patching Up The Problem? A Look Into California’s Healthcare Tax Plan

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India, South Asia, and Hindutva: What’s Going On With California Textbooks?

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Renewing and Rewriting Our Vows to the Constitution

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Will the Rainbow Flag Fly Over China?

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Such Great Heights: The Ascent of Hillary Clinton

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The Indian Farce of Free Speech: JNU Students Arrested Over Alleged Anti-India Comments

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A Horrifying Reality: A Favorite Nobel Laureate presiding over Internment Camps

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A Year Later, Back to Vaxing: California’s New Vaccination Laws

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A Blunt Look at the Marijuana Industry

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#OscarsSoWhite: The Call for Racial Diversity in Hollywood

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Where Are They Now?

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The Election Effect

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To the Land of the Kiwis—Problems Arising from the Chinese and Indian Tidal Wave of Immigration to New Zealand

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Sex Ed: Just Words? The Details and Implications of the California Healthy Youth Act

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The Precarious Position of Planned Parenthood

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Underground Construction: What the Underground Construction Industry Means for California

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Trade, Oppression and Uncle Sam

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“Leapfrogging”: Can developing countries truly skip over fossil fuel reliance in favor of renewable energies?

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A Dying King, a Rising Military

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A Shadowy Web of Unknowns: Unearthing the Underground Economy in Nuclear Materials

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Canada’s Consolation Prize

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The Adverse Effects of the Western Fixation on India’s “Rape Problem”

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Cyberwar with China

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The Exceptions and the Norm

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The Crack in Voting Equality

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Picket Signs Over Gavels

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Lessons from the School of Trumpian Politics along the Venezuelan-Colombian Border

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Feminism’s Glass Ceiling

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A Beefed Up Industry

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Angelina Jolie and Being Transgender: Why Your Body Does Not Define You

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Internal Politics Color Gerrymandering Fight in Berkeley

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The Fall of John Kitzhaber

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Yemen on the Brink of Civil War

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The Controversy Around Hillary

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Russia Looks East

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Learning to Listen: Napolitano and UC Tuition Protests

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An Agri-Culture of Settlement

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A Possible Return of Partisan Gerrymandering

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Mr. Xi Jinping, Tear Down This (Fire)Wall

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The Empty Ballot

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Ebola Ethics

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The Murder of Avijit Roy

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Jon Stewart: The End of an Era

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Fighting Off the Bias

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Twilight for Late Night’s Old Stars

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ANWar: The Historic Fight for Alaska’s Wilderness Heats Up

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Viable Ambassadors or Bona Fide Embarrassments?

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Swinging Red for Rand Paul

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The Ferguson Verdict

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Breaking the Ice: The Politics of the Arctic Council

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Voting Rights and Voting Wrongs

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Immigration Reform: The Echo That Can’t Be Ignored

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The Re-Tea-Blican Party: Is This the Return of the Prodigal Party?

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Why a Loss for Hillary in 2016 Means a Win in 2020

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Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Farm Bill

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The United States Without Net Neutrality

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A “Venezuelan Spring”?

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Can European Data become a Reality?

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Tenure on Trial

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Making Markets Moral

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The Snub Heard ‘Round China

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Free Speech and the Right to Curse at a Police Officer

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The Young and the Homeless

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God Bless the Great State of Jefferson

Old Writer November 20, 2019

Julius Malema: Land Expropriation Without Compensation

Old Writer November 18, 2019

Medicare for All: Resolving the Affordability Crisis Obamacare Didn’t

Old Writer November 14, 2019

Behind the Scenes of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’

Old Writer September 15, 2019

The Malacca Dilemma: A hindrance to Chinese Ambitions in the 21st Century

Old Writer August 26, 2019

Beating Trump: Five Things Democrats Need To Do Before 2020

Old Writer April 19, 2019

Kashmir Amidst Neighbouring Political Gains

Old Writer April 10, 2019

Jeremy Corbyn: An Unsatisfactory Alternative

Old Writer April 10, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi: A Veiled Political Battle Between Saudi Arabia and Turkey

Old Writer February 12, 2019

The Talk of Toilets in India

Old Writer February 11, 2019

The Mystery of CFC Emissions

Old Writer February 5, 2019

China’s Uighur Muslim Camps: The Face of Non-Western Islamophobia

Old Writer February 2, 2019

Did the Politicalization of the Supreme Court Start in California?

Old Writer January 28, 2019

Sharing is Caring: The Politics and Consequences of Trump’s Trade War

Old Writer January 25, 2019

2018’s October Surprise?: Hurricanes and What they Mean for the Midterm Elections

Old Writer January 23, 2019

“Snowflake” and the Decline in Civil Discourse

Old Writer January 23, 2019

Venezuela: A Textbook Case of How Socialism Breeds Dictatorship

Old Writer January 14, 2019

A Spotlight on the Red Light District

Old Writer December 25, 2018

Creating A College Admissions Process Based On Disadvantage

Old Writer December 20, 2018

China v. the US: Tariff Threats and Redirection Techniques

Old Writer December 5, 2018

Did California Just Cash Out?

Old Writer December 1, 2018

Search Engine Politics: How Algorithms are Creating Political Controversy

Old Writer October 31, 2018

The Political Case Against Impeaching Trump

Old Writer October 29, 2018

Policy Shootout: Georgia Versus Delta Airlines

Old Writer May 31, 2018

The Political Side of Fútbol

Old Writer May 28, 2018

Avoiding Traffic at All Costs: Is The Bullet Train Worth It?

Old Writer May 24, 2018

Uncharted Waters

Old Writer May 19, 2018

The Decrease of Psychiatrists in California: Another Battle for Mental Health

Old Writer April 27, 2018

To Spy or Not to Spy: Questions Raised by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Old Writer April 23, 2018

Racial Inequalities Permeate the Legal Marijuana Market

Old Writer April 20, 2018

Afghan War: the Never Ending Struggle

Old Writer April 16, 2018

Fresno’s Future Fulton

Old Writer April 11, 2018

By Any Other Name: Kazakhstan’s Alphabet Migration

Old Writer April 4, 2018

The Power of Top-Two: How an Emerging Primary System is Changing the Game

Old Writer April 1, 2018

Turning the Golden State Green: California’s Reputation as an Environmental Savior

Old Writer March 7, 2018

The State of Pakistani Democracy

Old Writer March 7, 2018

Money Talks: The Cost of Free Speech on Campus

Old Writer March 3, 2018

Tale of Two States: Cameroon’s Crisis

Old Writer December 31, 2017

How to Steal a Nomination

Old Writer December 28, 2017

A crippled democracy? The 2017 Kenyan Presidential Election

Old Writer December 21, 2017

Misstepping in a Multi-Polarizing World: Trump Stumbles in Pivot to Asia

Old Writer December 7, 2017

A Place Run by Criminals: An Insight into The American Prison

Old Writer December 4, 2017

Is Justice Bought?

Old Writer December 2, 2017

To Boldly Go Where No Military Branch Has Gone Before

Old Writer November 18, 2017

Myanmar’s Swiss Cheese Democracy

Old Writer November 17, 2017

Fake News is Real: The Rise of Computational Propaganda and Its Political Ramifications

Old Writer November 6, 2017

Gender Identity in Trump’s Military

Old Writer November 3, 2017

Pakistan’s “Godfather” Bites The Dust

Old Writer November 2, 2017

Statue Statutes: Will Renaming Bring Reconciliation?

Old Writer October 24, 2017

Electoral Breakthrough or Electoral Persistence? Forecasting AfD’s Future in the German Parliament

Old Writer October 19, 2017

The Beef Ban: A Symbol of Hindutva and a Threat to Indian Democracy

Old Writer August 16, 2017

Qui est Emmanuel Macron?

Old Writer June 11, 2017

A Matter of Pride and Prejudice: The Firing of FBI Director James Comey

Old Writer May 27, 2017

Running on Empty

Old Writer May 16, 2017

Power Plays

Old Writer May 2, 2017

Separation of Church and State?: What the First Amendment Really Meant

Old Writer May 2, 2017

The Recession of the Pink Tide

Old Writer May 2, 2017

When the Fox Met the Golden Bear: Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Wasn’t Ready for Cal

Old Writer April 22, 2017

Montgomery, Alabama – Race Relations and Reforms

Old Writer April 20, 2017

100 Years of Mugabe?

Old Writer April 19, 2017

Unethical Yet Unsurprising: The GOP’s Latest Blow to Planned Parenthood

Old Writer March 31, 2017

Frozen in Place: Canada’s Arctic Policy

Old Writer March 29, 2017

Indonesia in the Democratic Recession

Old Writer March 28, 2017

The Coming Battle

Old Writer March 22, 2017

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité threatened in 2017 French Election

Old Writer March 20, 2017

Aftermath: The Milo protests and where Berkeley went wrong

Old Writer March 2, 2017

Milo’s (Biblically?) Predestined Fall from Grace

Old Writer March 1, 2017

Tried and True? Obamacare and the Nationalization of American Policy

Old Writer January 23, 2017

Bolivarianism: A Fanfare for the Common Man?

Old Writer January 16, 2017

A Disunified Party in Power: Republicans off to a shaky start with ACA Repeal

Old Writer January 13, 2017

South Africa: Demographics and the One-Party State

Old Writer November 16, 2016

Modi’s 500 Rupee Solution for Ending Corruption

Old Writer November 14, 2016

Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act: The Bad and the Ugly

Old Writer November 14, 2016

What Happens to the Workers?: The Economic Implications of the Technological Revolution

Old Writer November 6, 2016

The Ill-Named Item Number

Old Writer October 30, 2016

On Brexit: Did Britain defy expectations or fulfill them by choosing to leave the E.U.?

Old Writer July 4, 2016

Patching Up The Problem? A Look Into California’s Healthcare Tax Plan

Old Writer June 1, 2016

India, South Asia, and Hindutva: What’s Going On With California Textbooks?

Old Writer May 17, 2016

Renewing and Rewriting Our Vows to the Constitution

Old Writer May 8, 2016

Will the Rainbow Flag Fly Over China?

Old Writer May 5, 2016

Such Great Heights: The Ascent of Hillary Clinton

Old Writer May 3, 2016

The Indian Farce of Free Speech: JNU Students Arrested Over Alleged Anti-India Comments

Old Writer May 2, 2016

A Horrifying Reality: A Favorite Nobel Laureate presiding over Internment Camps

Old Writer April 24, 2016

A Year Later, Back to Vaxing: California’s New Vaccination Laws

Old Writer April 16, 2016

A Blunt Look at the Marijuana Industry

Old Writer April 9, 2016

#OscarsSoWhite: The Call for Racial Diversity in Hollywood

Old Writer April 7, 2016

Where Are They Now?

Old Writer January 17, 2016

The Election Effect

Old Writer January 10, 2016

To the Land of the Kiwis—Problems Arising from the Chinese and Indian Tidal Wave of Immigration to New Zealand

Old Writer January 5, 2016

Sex Ed: Just Words? The Details and Implications of the California Healthy Youth Act

Old Writer January 4, 2016

The Precarious Position of Planned Parenthood

Old Writer December 24, 2015

Underground Construction: What the Underground Construction Industry Means for California

Old Writer December 7, 2015

Trade, Oppression and Uncle Sam

Old Writer December 2, 2015

“Leapfrogging”: Can developing countries truly skip over fossil fuel reliance in favor of renewable energies?

Old Writer November 28, 2015

A Dying King, a Rising Military

Old Writer November 23, 2015

A Shadowy Web of Unknowns: Unearthing the Underground Economy in Nuclear Materials

Old Writer November 18, 2015

Canada’s Consolation Prize

Old Writer November 18, 2015

The Adverse Effects of the Western Fixation on India’s “Rape Problem”

Old Writer November 10, 2015

Cyberwar with China

Old Writer November 10, 2015

The Exceptions and the Norm

Old Writer November 3, 2015

The Crack in Voting Equality

Old Writer November 2, 2015

Picket Signs Over Gavels

Old Writer October 30, 2015

Lessons from the School of Trumpian Politics along the Venezuelan-Colombian Border

Old Writer October 23, 2015

Feminism’s Glass Ceiling

Old Writer May 15, 2015

A Beefed Up Industry

Old Writer April 24, 2015

Angelina Jolie and Being Transgender: Why Your Body Does Not Define You

Old Writer April 23, 2015

Internal Politics Color Gerrymandering Fight in Berkeley

Old Writer April 22, 2015

The Fall of John Kitzhaber

Old Writer April 19, 2015

Yemen on the Brink of Civil War

Old Writer April 19, 2015

The Controversy Around Hillary

Old Writer April 17, 2015

Russia Looks East

Old Writer April 15, 2015

Learning to Listen: Napolitano and UC Tuition Protests

Old Writer April 13, 2015

What’s Up Their Sleeves?

Old Writer April 9, 2015

An Agri-Culture of Settlement

Old Writer April 5, 2015

A Possible Return of Partisan Gerrymandering

Old Writer April 2, 2015

Mr. Xi Jinping, Tear Down This (Fire)Wall

Old Writer March 31, 2015

The Empty Ballot

Old Writer March 30, 2015

Ebola Ethics

Old Writer March 24, 2015

The Murder of Avijit Roy

Old Writer March 18, 2015

Jon Stewart: The End of an Era

Old Writer March 11, 2015

Fighting Off the Bias

Old Writer March 10, 2015

Twilight for Late Night’s Old Stars

Old Writer March 4, 2015

ANWar: The Historic Fight for Alaska’s Wilderness Heats Up

Old Writer March 3, 2015

Viable Ambassadors or Bona Fide Embarrassments?

Old Writer January 15, 2015

Swinging Red for Rand Paul

Old Writer December 8, 2014

The Ferguson Verdict

Old Writer November 25, 2014

Breaking the Ice: The Politics of the Arctic Council

Old Writer November 23, 2014

Voting Rights and Voting Wrongs

Old Writer November 20, 2014

Immigration Reform: The Echo That Can’t Be Ignored

Old Writer November 14, 2014

The Re-Tea-Blican Party: Is This the Return of the Prodigal Party?

Old Writer October 25, 2014

Why a Loss for Hillary in 2016 Means a Win in 2020

Old Writer October 21, 2014

Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Farm Bill

Old Writer October 17, 2014

The United States Without Net Neutrality

Old Writer April 24, 2014

A “Venezuelan Spring”?

Old Writer March 26, 2014

Can European Data become a Reality?

Old Writer March 19, 2014

Tenure on Trial

Old Writer February 26, 2014

Making Markets Moral

Old Writer December 23, 2013

The Snub Heard ‘Round China

Old Writer July 7, 2013

Free Speech and the Right to Curse at a Police Officer

Old Writer November 5, 2010

The Young and the Homeless

Old Writer May 8, 2010

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