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The Board of Peace is not about peace at all   By SABRINA FIGUEROA — sfigueroaavila@ucdavis.edu   After three years of Israel committing genocide against Palestinians, a United States-backed ceasefire was proposed in October 2025. However, the ceasefire is fragile, and remains a serious threat to the future of Palestinians. Israeli airstrikes have killed 600 […]

We speed down the highway and shovel food like its our last meal, racing to the next thing without truly getting through the last   By AMBER DUHS — alduhs@ucdavis.edu   We all seem to be in a constant race. No matter what we’re doing, we’re in it for the thrill of making the cut […]

Clavicular and the mainstreaming of 4chan speech   By MILES BARRY —mabarry@ucdavis.edu   Clavicular is the online moniker of Braden Peters — a 20-year-old from New Jersey who live-streams for eight hours a day. Clavicular had a relatively normal childhood. Then, at age 14, he discovered Looksmax.org, an online men’s group dedicated to “looksmaxxing,” or […]

Our ignorance permits government mistakes and heinous fees By NEVAEH KARRAKER — nakarraker@ucdavis.edu By now, the controversies surrounding United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are plastered on every news outlet’s front page. Every day a new story transpires and another protest assembles, but information about state affairs gets lost in the chaos.  Voting on […]

And they’re gross because they’re poorly designed By MILES BARRY —mabarry@ucdavis.edu On the whole, public restrooms are unpleasant spaces. Between thin, gray-blue walls, strangers perform the private and intimate acts of daily maintenance — relieving themselves, managing menstrual products, changing clothes, injecting insulin, adjusting medical devices, changing colostomy bags — all while hyperaware that a […]

Though we must maintain our sanity, we also need to be aware of the news By SAGE KAMOCSAY— skamocsay@ucdavis.edu The news is horrible. Everybody knows this — between bombing cities, the Epstein files, human rights violations in America and hundreds more pages of awful stories, keeping up to date with world events can be incredibly […]

Has thrifting culture resulted in a new kind of materialism? By ANJALI IYER — amiyer@ucdavis.edu Last summer, my friend and I decided to visit the Goodwill bins in Sacramento as a post-finals reward. I was no stranger to the perils of the bins, having heard stories of friends finding used diapers and sanitary pads hidden […]

The rise of surveillance TV  By ABHINAYA KASAGANI — akasagani@ucdavis.edu In 2024, when Rob Rausch dismissed Leah Kateb on national television in Love Island Season 6, my world was turned upside down. I had always prided myself, to some degree, on my faculty for consuming reality TV “ironically.” Yet, somehow, I found myself sucked into […]