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The Real Price of Labor

Divya Vijay November 23, 2015

Human lives are rapidly becoming some of the most valuable commodities on the planet. The human trafficking business is reported to be a $32 billion-per-year

Jean Fuller and the Battle for Political Equality

Lauren Hadley November 5, 2015

Women are beginning to prove that California politics are not simply a man’s job. August 27, 2015 marked a historic day for California’s legislative

The Exceptions and the Norm

Old Writer November 3, 2015

While women represent half of California’s population, they make up only one-fourth of the California State Legislature. Source: Dishary Hossain California Attorney General

California Equal Pay Bill: Groundbreaking, or Hollow Hope?

Dosbal Aibyek October 29, 2015

Women in California have achieved a momentous victory in the workplace. This summer, the state senate passed Senate Bill 358, a landmark equal pay bill

Harris’ Senate Race is Now a Woman’s Race

Divya Vijay October 27, 2015

Could Gavin Newsom be afraid of Kamala Harris? Just before California Attorney General Harris formally announced her bid to run for the United States Senate

Courting Controversy

Sophie Khan October 11, 2015

The California State Legislature took its interim study recess on September 11 and will reconvene on January 4. The first year of this session was

The Image and the Fury

Leah Daoud May 21, 2015

In 2011, the Pew Research Center reported that 64% of the silent generation believed that the U.S. is the greatest country in the world, while

California’s Drought: A Trickling Time Bomb

Julia Konstantinovsky April 22, 2015

In early March senior NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory water scientist Jay Famiglietti reported that the state of California has approximately a single year’s supply of

Internal Politics Color Gerrymandering Fight in Berkeley

Old Writer April 22, 2015

After a yearlong, virulent, and expensive fight, Measure S passed in Berkeley, California–establishing a student-age supermajority city council district. Measure S was a taboo political

Murder in Lockup

Leah Daoud April 5, 2015

In recent years, it has become abundantly clear that security does not always come hand-in-hand with safety. Although they house the most closely guarded of

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