Is military withdrawal from Afghanistan the right choice?
Removing more than half of America’s troops from Afghanistan will allow the government to focus on other matters. Tuesday night, in his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of 34,000 American troops from Afghanistan. Though the decision comes with concerns, drawing down the number of American troops in Afghanistan is [...]
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During Tuesday’s presidential debate, audience member Barry Green raised a unique question: As we approach the election, what are the biggest misconceptions associated with each candidate? Neither candidate broke any new ground — they used Green’s question as an opportunity to reiterate some of their central campaign points — but the question remains relevant, particularly [...]
Read the rest of this article »Former defense secretary urges bipartisanship
Robert Gates, the 22nd U.S. secretary of defense, analyzes the nation’s role in foreign relations.
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While America’s involvement in the Middle East has never been ideal, Obama’s policies uphold a belief that, eventually, conflict can be minimized and some version of peace can be achieved.
Read the rest of this article »Anti-intellectualism damaging in politics
Ideology aside, I can see why many Americans find Rick Santorum relatable. He presents himself as the underdog. He wears a sweater vest. He called himself the candidate you’d bring home to mom. But a close look at his statements should frighten anyone who values education. On Jan. 10, Santorum called President Barack Obama an [...]
Read the rest of this article »Clean Energy Not A Means for Job Creation Today
If you’ve watched but one State of the Union address, you know the formula for every yearly installment of the speech given within recent significant political history.  Large issues the President perceives as most pressing – recently, issues like defense and the economy – come first. Issues the President deems less “doable” or significant come [...]
Read the rest of this article »Obama’s decision to enforce standardized testing only exacerbates Bush’s wrongs.
Read the rest of this article »A new type of undergraduate experience will be added to the university as music icons ...
Video from the scene, courtesy of USC Black Student Assembly. Students, alumni, faculty and community members ...
[gallery link="file" ids="67092,67091,67090,67089,67088,67087,67086,67085,67084"] Photos by Razan Al Marzouqi More than 100 students gathered in front of Tommy ...
With a runoff election almost two weeks away, Councilman Eric Garcetti and City Controller Wendy ...
Architect and USC alumnus Anthony Marnell, '72, donated $1 million to the School of Architecture ...
UPDATE: Photos from the scene, courtesy of USC student Christopher James. Multiple USC students were detained ...
On April 3, Assistant Professor of International Relations Mai’a Keapuolani Davis Cross, who had traveled cross-country from her tenure track position at Colgate University to ...
The Galen Center entered into a deal last week with Nederlander Concerts, a Los Angeles-based company that organizes concerts with venues, to increase the numbers ...
A group of USC students, community members and local artists in Leimert Park are bringing the pay phone back into service — and hoping to ...
A report sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation reveals that the nation’s higher education system is facing a dropout crisis. Produced in part ...
The prison must be closed as it stands for hypocrisy and infringes upon international human rights.  One hundred of the total 166 inmates at the Guantánamo ...
Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the creation of World Wide Web. The organization responsible for building the Internet, CERN, also created the Large Hadron ...
As the USC baseball team enters the final month of its baseball season 11 games under .500, it can at least feel good that it ...
For the No. 4 USC women’s sand volleyball team, its entire season has led up to this tournament. The team will finally be put to the ...
When it comes to dominating the competition in the pool, nobody does it better than the Vavic family. Following a season in which head coach ...
Though Generation Um…includes a star studded cast—Keanu Reeves, Bojana Novakovic, and Adelaide Clemens—this film surprisingly has more of an indie vibe.  Set in New York ...
Though finals loom as obstacles between now and summer, Ground Zero Performance Café has the perfect solution for both cooling down and serving your study ...
Before Disney’s Peter, Wendy, John and Michael flew over “poor Nana” toward Big Ben and continued to the second star to the right and straight ...
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The Schwarzenegger Institute held an immigration reform forum titled "Washington comes to USC", with U.S Senators John McCain, Michael Bennet and former President of Mexico ...
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