Opinion

By placing Russia on a scary list, the U.S. government ignores reality In January, the State Department revamped its system of travel advisories, making it easier for American citizens to know what dangers await abroad. The updated model uses a tiered ranking system to designate the safest and most dangerous countries in the world for […]

By: Diana Olivares — deolivares@ucdavis.edu Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by individual cartoonists belong to the cartoonists alone and do not necessarily indicate the views and opinions held by The California Aggie.

Diplomacy in the digital age Donald Trump is undoubtedly the first President of the United States to use Twitter as a form of diplomacy. That is, if you can call it that. For the past two years, Trump has made headlines with his bullying tactics on social media, featuring absurd nicknames, uninformed rants and accusations […]

You’re not a cat, you just like bringing people dead birds in your mouth You are better than most other people. You are perhaps more lithe, more graceful, surely more cunning, definitely more skittish and just the right mixture of totally composed and suddenly spastic. You are better at catching lizards, too. You do not […]

Randomwordgenerator.com had this to say: “Zydeco, Goldfish, Eleven, Bottles, Stardust” Twitter exploded on Friday when a leaked video of Kanye West became the subject of national attention. In the video, West appears to be using the online word generator site “randomwordgenerator.com” to write songs for his upcoming album “Jesus Jesus I Am God, Kanye West, […]

How the Trump Era evolved out of the OJ Simpson saga If the OJ Simpson ordeal had not occurred and was instead a work of fiction produced decades from now, people might say something like, “You know, I think this might actually be a rough allegory for the Trump Era.” Of course, this wouldn’t be […]

UC fails to meet deadline, noncompliance could result in tuition hike A 2017 audit outlined that the University of California had not disclosed $175 million to the public — an amount the University of California Office of the President says is incorrect — showing that UCOP exercised misleading budget practices while continuing to request more […]

Agriculture is the real culprit in California’s water worries After I graduated from high school, my family and I spent a month in a cabin on the west shore of Lake Tahoe, California. It was the August of 2014, one of the driest months for the state, so for the Sierras to be dusty at […]

By: Ariel Hilomen — abhilomen@ucdavis.edu Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by individual cartoonists belong to the cartoonists alone and do not necessarily indicate the views and opinions held by The California Aggie.

Bylaws made incomprehensible after years of legislative tinkering When a student recently pursued the process to recall elected officials, ASUCD failed them. According to the Judicial Council’s opinion issued in the case Nelson v. ASUCD, the resulting process “was riddled with inconsistency, confusion, miscommunication, and amounted to a denial of the petitioners [sic] right to […]

Citing the success of AT&T and Comcast, UC Davis begins tuition changes that model the current net neutrality environment As more telecom and internet service providers announce altered pay brackets, the Northern California school UC Davis has decided to follow the trend. Starting in Fall 2019, UC Davis will integrate a new tuition collection system […]

By playing on our fears, the media has inflated the threat of Islamist terrorism From 1995 to 2014, 3,264 people died in the U.S. from acts of terrorism. From 1999 to 2015, 533,879 people died in the U.S. from gun violence. More Americans have been killed by guns since 1968 than in all U.S. wars […]