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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Column

It’s not about hugging trees

Events in Joshua Tree National Park show how little we care about our environment Imagine this headline: Off-roading vehicle enters restricted area during middle...

How do you solve a problem like Maduro?

So long, farewell? Or is Maduro not the problem? Since National Assembly leader Juan Guaidó declared himself interim president of Venezuela last month, news of...

The Student Debt Trap: Why millennials are settling down later

Mounting student loans are pushing back the prospect of marriage There was a lot of talk about America’s improved economic status during President Donald Trump’s...

A worthwhile debate or a reward to virtue signalers and trolls?

Some Catholics, Native Americans and Black Hebrew Israelites walk onto the Mall... After video of what appeared to be a group of MAGA hat-wearing Catholic...

The problem with “woke capitalism”

How the marriage of market capitalism with social progressivism trades the interests of the worker in favor of profit While it may have already fallen...

How Tulsi Gabbard threatens the Democratic status quo

A populist progressive enters the presidential race You may have missed it among the many Democrats who declared their presidential bids this month, but Hawaii...

I had a shot at the military. Why shouldn’t a transgender person be able to?

The reality of recruitment means everyone deserves a chance to serve It wasn’t long after my freshman year of high school that I developed a...

The problem with plastic roads

Counterintuitively, plastic roads increase our dependence on single-use plastics As the global population increases, the production of plastic does as well, with an average increase...

Why farmers must use nitrogen fertilizers efficiently

California has the worst air quality in the nation — mostly due to nitrogen oxide emissions Fertilizers for crops have been an achievement that has...

Revisiting the curmudgeonly anger and totally acceptable, politically-incorrect vlugarities of George Carlin

Why Carlin’s jokes work and why today’s PC police might crucify him regardless Benjamin Porter — bbporter@ucdavis.edu As one of my high school English teachers always...

Trump begins to right the wrong on America’s disastrous foreign policy

The withdrawal of American forces from Syria finally moves the U.S. away from its catastrophic military endeavors It’s time to give credit where credit is...

Life and Death in Trump Country

What “deaths of despair” can teach — and warn us — about America’s future When Kate O’Neill wrote her sister’s obituary in October 2018,...

Israel, Palestine and the battle for free speech in America

Texas’ Israel loyalty oath is a form of political coercion and a blatant attack on Americans’ right to freedom of speech In Texas, a...

How California fails its inmate firefighters

  Volunteer inmate firefighters are at the frontlines of California’s wildfires but are often left jobless upon release Across the nation, Americans have been bombarded with...

Land of the free and incarcerated

America must decide if it wants to rehabilitate prisoners or continue punishing them America prides itself on being number one in many categories, but there’s...