With primary midterm elections fast approaching, Republicans are gearing up to challenge Californians’ voting rights at both the local and federal levels. Since February 9, Riverside County sheriff and Republican gubernatorial candidate Chad Bianco has seized ballots from the November 2025 special election in which Proposition 50 passed, initiated a recount, and opened a criminal […]
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Your Romantic Getaway Is Not As Far As You Think It Is
Love: the most complicated, confusing, boundless, impassioned concept of our time. Of any time, really. We make a fool of ourselves for love, chasing even the idea of it when we cannot possibly find a better alternative to our desires. For many of us, we prefer watching love from the sidelines, living vicariously through the […]
How the Pandemic Unmasked Science
When asked, most people likely can’t produce an objective definition that separates the discipline of science from other related academic fields. Falsification, proposed by Karl Popper in 1934, is a method of defining science that asserts science must be “falsifiable,” capable of being proven wrong with evidence from a new experiment. This also implies replicability […]
South Park: The Cultural Hero We Need, But Don’t Deserve
Free speech concerns are louder than ever, amidst the Trump administration’s continued efforts to silence MAGA-opposed voices. Last year, ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live! – or more importantly, FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s threats of government action against ABC – sparked widespread outrage for its political implications. While Kimmel remained as critical as ever […]
Can We Still Buy Tulsi Gabbard’s “No War With Iran” T-shirt?
Born too late to deploy to the Middle East, born too early to deploy to the Middle East, born just in time to deploy to the Middle East. The America that exists in 2026 cannot be separated from the nearly two and a half decades of constant conflict in which it has been embroiled in […]
The Long Shadow of the Nobel
All roads lead to Oslo. The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway did not differ significantly from those held in Oslo City Hall for years. There was the same humbly bowing awardee, the same beaming audience, and the same emphasis on global cooperation. But just underneath this placid exterior, the very foundations that the […]
From Veto to Vacuum
“Sometimes you need a dictator,” offhandedly remarked President Trump in Davos on Jan. 21, the third day of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. Out of his many controversial statements uttered at the forum—such as repeated references to Greenland as Iceland—perhaps this statement went undetected to many. Or perhaps it was interpreted as another one […]
Political Activism is the New Showbiz
An actor’s job is to act. It’s an art. Art has and will always be political. From every deliberate, red brushstroke in paintings, rendering in photography, and distinct diction used to make memorable phrases plastered on posters, art has served as a reliable method of expression and a form of silent activism in politics today. Independent artists […]
America’s Disposable Allies
When it comes to American foreign policy, realpolitik rules. Democratic allies, be warned: Washington’s friendship may be an existential liability.
“Fiat Lux” Darkens With Peyrin Kao’s Firing
On Thursday last week, campus leadership dismissed UC Berkeley lecturer Peyrin Kao — the latest casualty in the administration’s war on Berkeley’s free speech foundations. Kao’s censuring proves yet again that free speech at UC Berkeley is no more than administrative marketing. It’s a principle invoked when convenient and easily discarded when costly. This semester, […]