With 60,000 individuals forced onto the street, Los Angeles has the largest homeless population in the country. The city has had a long and complicated relationship with its homeless community and recently, as the number of homeless in the city skyrocket, more residents are calling for something to be done. Unfortunately, in a recent poll, 65% of LA county...
Last year, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 100, committing California to receiving energy from only renewable sources by 2045, effectively pushing for carbon neutrality. While the bill was a step in the right direction, it does not go far enough. Current projections of atmospheric carbon dioxide see concentration sailing above 410 ppm, correlating to a rise in...
Earlier this November, the Daily Northwestern, a student newspaper in Illinois, issued an apology in response to public outrage regarding a recent article of theirs that covered a protest on their school campus. The protest was held in response to an event the Northwestern College Republicans were hosting, during which former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was asked to speak....
Facebook doesn’t have a strong reputation for respecting privacy — in fact, the company thrives on being as invasive as possible. It collects as much personal data on users as possible across all of their services. Using Facebook and Instagram gives the company a wealth of information, including hobbies and interests, and even if a user doesn’t have any...
On Wednesday, Oct. 30, Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, announced that the platform will no longer run paid political ads. This appears to be a direct response to Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to not ban or restrict political ads on his own social network. Political ads have been under scrutiny on social media and are often blamed for the...
If someone is a frequent user of social media platforms and takes part in the trends, then they shouldn’t be a stranger to the prevalent “ok boomer” phenomena. This phrase has become a popular discourse topic between generations and is causing many people to take sides on the once comedic and lighthearted meme. Due to the significance many groups...
The Second Amendment should be reinterpreted to protect the rights of states to protect themselves with well-regulated militias. Home protection should be done with nonlethal weaponry. Hunting should be permissible in designated hunting zones with weapons provided on the hunting grounds. But most importantly, the Second Amendment in its current form should be eliminated, private gun ownership should be...
U.S. President Donald Trump has recently demanded that South Korea pay nearly 400% more in 2020 for the cost of keeping U.S. military troops in the Korean peninsula. While Trump had previously mentioned that South Korea should be compensating the U.S. for the cost of maintaining the troops in the peninsula, his proposal is unreasonable and sudden. The president’s...
On Monday, Nov. 4, the U.S. took the first step in a year-long process to formally withdraw from the Paris climate accord. The accord was signed into effect on Nov. 4, 2016, by 196 states that agreed to prioritize a global response to climate change. As part of the agreement, each state had to propose plans that displayed how...
The Trump administration has long been fighting to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), a program that protects over 700,000 young immigrants from the threat of deportation. This would put those hundreds of thousands of people at risk of being deported, and many are afraid that the U.S. Supreme Court is finally ready to let the...