POINT: USC administration’s role is not political advocacy
The administration must leave politics to student organizations rather than take divisive stances.
COLUMN: Political correctness is a conservative invention
The people who use this phrase, mainly white men, assert over and over again that they are the ones at risk of being silenced by the sensitive and overwrought left.
COLUMN: USC should join Biden’s sexual assault initiative
Though Biden is exceptionally prepared to take on new initiatives addressing sexual assault, he will undoubtedly need the support of universities such as USC.
COLUMN: Liberal elitism — what is it, exactly?
Since Meryl Streep’s speech at the Golden Globes, the right has, in its inimitable fashion, scrambled to rationalize its own ideological branding mechanisms. Streep called conservatives out, plain and simple, for living in a different kind of bubble: the anti-intellectual one. The new security blanket of the far-righters is a safe space of their own, […]
COLUMN: Gender wage gap: the good, the bad, the ugly
New research about the gender wage gap shows that for millennial women, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news is that, according to the Resolution Foundation, the gender wage gap for millennial women new to the workforce has dropped from 16 percent for Baby Boomers women to 5 percent for millenials. The […]
COLUMN: Challenges should not extinguish hope
On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama delivered a bittersweet farewell address. After eight years as a poised, prepared and conscientious president, it is hard to think back to Obama as the young, springy senator who spoke of hope so very long ago. But perhaps, deep down, hope had been his mantra since his time as […]
Modern Republican party needs revamping
As someone who’s dedicated more than a little time to pontificating about how conservatives need to change up their economic and social messages to be competitive in the future, the 2016 Republican wave was a shock for me. It’s forcing me to reconsider a lot of what I thought before the election. Nowadays, the market […]
The two-party political system is here to stay
Every American presidential election we see the same widespread disillusionment with the two-party system. Somehow, we always seem to end up with two of the least palatable candidates imaginable (though that might just be because we look at them for too long). We have a choice between two modes of thought we don’t fully agree […]
In wake of the election, America has work to do
On the night of the election, the Canadian immigration website continually crashed. Google Trends shows a spike in searches for “Canadian immigration” starting at 11 p.m. According to The Telegraph, American internet searches for “emigrate” steadily increased throughout election night as well. Of course, moving to Canada memes and tweets weren’t invented Tuesday night. In […]
Clinton has best plan regarding student debt relief
Three thousand dollars in student debt is accrued every second in the United States, and the average total amount by the time students graduate is about $37,000. In the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign, and among other divisive issues like immigration reform or taxes, a pressing issue rests in the minds of many college […]