Superbug resistance engineered by society


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Crusaders for public health have long touted, “everything in moderation.” We’re told to limit our fats, sugars and amount of time we spend inert on the couch watching Netflix. But in our push for improved fitness and reduced mortality, we’ve overlooked an essential cause for self-restraint, and the consequences could be lethal. The excessive use […]

Weapons alone won’t stop ISIS


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By themselves, guns and bombs will not defeat an ideology of terror, death and destruction. Education and understanding will. The ideology I speak of recently shocked the world in a 22-minute video. The video shows the brutal execution of a Jordanian fighter pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh. When al-Kaseasbeh’s fighter plane crashed in Syria in late […]

Stanford shows responsible case-handling


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Campus sexual assault is obviously a national epidemic. Despite recent measures to investigate sexual assault cases at many universities, including USC, and California’s fairly recent passage of “Yes Means Yes” legislation, there appeared to be no definitive answers to the problem. Fortunately, the handling of Stanford University’s recent sexual assault case reveals a possible solution. […]

Japan in need of United States aid to combat terrorist threat


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Last April, when tensions were high between Japan and China because of disputed island territory, President Barack Obama took a trip to Japan to affirm that the United States will defend Japanese security interests. Now, Japan finds itself threatened again by one of the globe’s most notorious terrorist organizations, the Islamic State of Iraq and […]

Past events prove ISIS intervention should not happen


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In a new reign of terror, the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) released a video Saturday of the beheading of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. Though the video’s legitimacy has not been not confirmed, this marked the second purported Japanese hostage killing, the first being businessman Haruna Yukawa. These alleged killings by ISIS […]

COUNTERPOINT: Controversy calls Brady’s legacy, morality into question


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When Saturday Night Live released a skit mocking the press conferences that followed the New England Patriots’ “Deflategate,” it was not far off from the reality. The skit was made more to mock the media coverage, as many news outlets have been treating the scandal as a much more earth-shattering event than many believe it […]