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There’s been a lot of talk about big money and the power of special interests in our elections this year. Proposition 54 embodies the worst of both. Prop 54 is on the ballot solely because one California billionaire, who, after spending millions of dollars trying to influence California policy and elections, is now using our citizen […]

How the alt-right gets PC wrong Donald Trump has spent much of the 2016 presidential campaign railing against political correctness. And you know what? I agree with him. People today get offended too easily. They can’t take a joke. Some of them have never experienced actual oppression, and they develop a compulsion to find something […]

Holding journalists and representatives accountable Rap music, as it was intended, has lit a fire and got white people in their feelings. In an opinion column written last week by opinion editor Eli Flesch on what is now termed the “Chance the Rapper Controversy,” a host of ideologies were invoked to obfuscate the racial realities […]

Taking academic risks can help students learn more effectively Two important things happened to me in middle school: I was accepted into honors English and President Obama was inaugurated after an election season that sparked my deep interest in politics. And while this country has changed profoundly in those eight years since President Obama took office, […]

Native Americans are a ceremonial people of song and prophecy. One prophecy, that of the Seventh Fire, predicts that protectors from the four sacred directions will rise to defeat a sinister black snake that burrows deep in the earth and ravages the lands. The protectors are led by the seventh generation — today’s young people […]

The 2016 presidential election has without question shown that Americans are frustrated with the political process. From the presidential nominees to the lack of transparency and accountability in our state government, voters feel powerless and long for change. As the Chair of the UC Davis College Republicans chapter and a political science major, I believe […]