USC should ban all Nestlé products


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On April 1, Gov. Jerry Brown announced California’s first-ever mandatory water restrictions and instructed cities and towns in the state to cut their water use by 25 percent. This announcement has come on the heels of historically low snowpacks and persisting severe drought conditions that are threatening the state’s already strained water supply. The current […]

Nepal’s devastation requires world aid


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On April 25, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the small, mountainous country of Nepal. The death toll so far has topped 5,000 and is expected to rise. A poor country with very little infrastructure, Nepal has a long road ahead to rebuild. Not even 10 years have passed since the end of its civil war, and […]

Glorifying athletes fosters patriarchy


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The past few years have seen numerous cases in which football players and other male athletes at the high school, college and professional levels have been charged in cases of rape and domestic violence. There are clear indications that organized sports need to reconfigure their approach to sexual assault, but the media has not really […]

“Clinton Cash” controversy brings reminder of past scandals


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On May 5, author Peter Schweizer will release his new book Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Business Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. Schweizer told ABC in an interview that his book exposes 12 incidents in which Hillary Clinton was giving governmental power to those who gave money […]

Allegations against Hillary Clinton will not affect campaign


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Two weeks after her announcement to run for president in 2016, Hillary Clinton has found herself embroiled in yet another controversy. This time, rather than examining the email habits of the former secretary of state, it concerns the Clinton Foundation and the allocation of received donations. According to a forthcoming book by Stanford professor Peter […]

Criticism of GMOs is a wasted effort


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Dr. Mehmet Oz has drawn recent criticism from others in the scientific community for his unwavering stance on the need to label genetically modified organisms. But he is not alone. Opposition to GMOs finds steadfast, bipartisan consensus in the United States, with a supermajority of Americans consistently expressing their skepticism towards the altered crops. Perhaps […]