Tampons are Not a Luxury. Period.
If candy and Viagra are considered basic necessities in the California Revenue and Taxation Code, pads and tampons should be too. In early May, California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a plan to exempt menstrual hygiene products and diapers from sales tax for five years. Many...
Mexican Culture is Not a Costume
If you bring sombreros, ponchos, fake mustaches and tequila to your Cinco de Mayo celebration, you’re doing it wrong. In the U.S., frat boys and politics majors alike use Cinco de Mayo as an excuse to party without recognizing the day’s historical and cultural significance. ...
What the Frack
Along with wildfires and earthquakes, California faces another environmental threat — the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) obsession with fracking. The BLM released a report on April 25 labeling one million acres — three times the size of the city of Los Angeles —...
We Get It, You Went to Paris
When an arsonist burned three Black churches between March 26 and April 4 in the St. Landry Parish in Louisiana, most prominent news feeds were silent. But the world wasted no time mourning the loss of a historic French cathedral. The Notre Dame Cathedral in...
Open Access for All
Researchers spend months, often years, developing their work before sharing their findings with the world. Once they go through a publication company they often lose the rights to their research. Readers must pay to read their work and the researchers still don’t make a profit....
Let Puerto Rico Decide
About 97 percent of voters in Puerto Rico voted in favor of statehood in a nonbinding referendum in 2017. The U.S. federal government disregarded the vote, neglecting Puerto Ricans’ call for representation. This undermines any remaining claim of democracy our country can make. Christopher Columbus...
Religious Health Care has No Place at UC
Doctors pledge to do no harm, but at Dignity Health piety outweighs medical responsibility. On several campuses, the UC partners with the Catholic health care company. Dignity Health’s care is bound to the teachings of the church and the directives of the United States Conference...
A Bachelor’s Degree in White Privilege
The college admissions scandal of 2019 revealed which of the following: A) White privilege in college admissions B) Racial inequalities in prosecution for white collar crimes C) It is ridiculous to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to get accepted to an elite institution when...
Why is Nobody Talking About the Internment of Uyghur Muslims?
China is enforcing apartheid, and not enough people are talking about it. The Uyghur people are being put into concentration camps for being Muslim, but China is calling it “re-education.”
First Amendment, Last Priority
Ever get that eerie feeling that somebody is watching you? So did a number of activists, lawyers and journalists whose work has focused on Central American asylum seekers. It wasn’t until this month they found out the government had been compiling a concerning number of...