In an effort to increase transparency and reinforce its commitment to consumers, high-end grocery store Whole Foods announced Friday that it would be mandating labels for genetically modified organisms, GMOs, in food products by 2018. The decision was seen by some as an effort to reintroduce Whole Foods as one of the quality produce distributors [...]

Sometime last week, I was walking across campus and talking with a friend about Los Angeles. The talk was engaging, but at one point he mentioned that he does not believe Los Angeles to be a particularly segregated city. His case is rooted in the fact that the city’s diversity is remarkable in terms of [...]

With the array of metal detectors and lines of uniformed security guards a fixture of today’s travel experiences, there’s no doubt that airport security has been radically transformed by the 9/11 attacks — air travel has not been, nor will it ever be, quite the same again. But rules change as years pass. This week, [...]

The American Atheists’ “Go Godless” billboards are simply smear campaigns with no purpose.  The First Amendment guarantees us the right to express our opinions, however controversial, to the general public: It allows us to protest unjust policies and corrupt practices. But at what point do we draw the line in determining when free speech is [...]

This past week, the Obama administration made an unprecedented move in its filing of an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in which it encouraged the court to strike down Proposition 8. The 2008 passage of California’s now-infamous ballot initiative ensured that same-sex marriage would remain illegal under the provisions of California’s state [...]

Department store conglomerate JC Penney made headlines this week but not for a reason that any company would want: The department store chain reported quarterly results that were so shockingly bad, they might have been the worst numbers in retail history. The reason for the company’s rapid decline is its recent implementation of the revolutionary [...]

One might think that by year 2013, the question of whether or not people of color can vote in public elections would long have been relegated to the history books. Unfortunately, it is not a matter of the past alone. It appears that the Supreme Court is poised to strike down section five of the [...]

Harassment, humiliation, teasing, aggression. Cyberbullying, at a glance, seems identical to the traditional school-yard fights and classroom antics that have always existed. In the years since the advent of social media, however, cyberbullying has posed challenges that can be more difficult, in a way, than physical belittling. Though cyberbullying and its dangers have stepped from [...]

The Transportation Security Agency must reform its security policy in order to improve the experience.  The lack of prudent screening policies in place at airports is perhaps one of the biggest flaws with modern American airline travel. Apart from security procedures being obtrusive and intimidating, multiple tests have  found them to be ineffective and incapable [...]

After months of doomsday predictions regarding the imminent enactment of across-the-board spending cuts, the sequester is finally set to go into effect this Friday. The emergency cuts, which were part of a deal struck between Congress and President Barack Obama in 2011 to extend the United States’ borrowing authority and cut the budget deficit, will [...]