Opinion

The sweet taste of victory, the bitter bite of deception   By NEVAEH KARRAKER — nakarraker@ucdavis.edu   Ballots for Proposition 50 are flooding mailboxes, and, for many first-years at UC Davis, it’s their first time voting in California. With the disappointment expressed by many in response to the actions of the Donald Trump administration, the […]

The sweet taste of victory, the bitter bite of deception   By NEVAEH KARRAKER — nakarraker@ucdavis.edu   Ballots for Proposition 50 are flooding mailboxes, and, for many first-years at UC Davis, it’s their first time voting in California. With the disappointment expressed by many in response to the actions of the Donald Trump administration, the […]

From cozy nights in to local whimsical adventures, there is no limit to what you can do this Halloween season   By THE EDITORIAL BOARD — opinion@theaggie.org   Now that it’s officially fall (as of one month ago), it’s — at long last — time for the Editorial Board’s Official Guide to Fall. There’s a […]

How accessible does science need to be?   By ABHINAYA KASAGANI — akasagani@ucdavis.edu   Let me start by saying Academia and I are not friends. Most days I don’t understand her, and she doesn’t understand me, but we keep in touch anyway. I get most of my information from her, and she’s usually credible. On […]

Recent efforts by the Trump administration discredit journalists and enforce a single narrative By THE EDITORIAL BOARD   On Oct. 14, new restrictions were issued by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, targeting the work of the “very disruptive” journalists within the United States Pentagon: requiring escorts, discouraging communication with sources and barring publication of information without […]

Proposition 50 offers Californians the opportunity to flip five Republican House seats blue in response to Texas’ redistricting   By THE EDITORIAL BOARD — opinion@theaggie.org   At a time when President Donald Trump and Republicans are dominating headlines, Proposition 50 offers an alternative: a way to use your voice, even when it feels bleak, a […]

How did a generation raised on fantasies of revolution grow to idolize the leisure class? By GEETIKA MAHAJAN — giamahajan@ucdavis.edu The start of the 2020s felt like the end of the world as we knew it. Between a global pandemic and constant political upheaval, it seemed like the very pillars of society were collapsing — […]

How to thrive in the face of indifference  By JACKSON IVY — jjivy@ucdavis.edu To be young in today’s world is to struggle. We struggle for calm, justice or some assurance that things are not as bad as they seem, yet so many things are stacked against us. Media reports are rarely good, and it’s too […]

How MAGA Christianity is being used to protect the Trump administration By SABRINA FIGUEROA — sfigueroaavila@ucdavis.edu When you grow up in the Catholic church, going to mass with medieval stained glass windows and the Virgin Mary constantly staring you down, you retain a lot of religious guilt about everything you do, especially if your actions […]

What global protests reveal about the state of our nation By NEVAEH KARRAKER — nakarraker@ucdavis.edu Immigration is arguably the most prevalent issue in the world right now, and the unease encompassing it isn’t leaving anytime soon. Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, Poland and Germany are being swept deep into a wave of anti-immigration protests. Although […]

In defense of puns as a form of highbrow humor By ABHINAYA KASAGANI — akasagani@ucdavis.edu I promise the reader that the initial conception of this article did not stem from my being relentlessly mocked for my penchant for puns. My sincerest apologies that we all cannot be absolutely hilarious with the way we turn words […]

Affective polarization: an affliction with insufferable symptoms By VIOLET ZANZOT— vmzanzot@ucdavis.edu History will have its way with the affective polarization that exists in America today. Future textbooks will have headlines that read “The battle between the blue-haired and red-capped raged onward,” and Alligator Alcatraz will be memorialized similar to Manzanar. Much as we may have […]