Gabriel Becerra is a third year International Affairs and Public Policy student here at UCR. He participates in several political student organizations with the most time spent with YDSA which meets every Thursday. Email: [email protected]
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It’s that simple. Bernie Sanders, the most favorably viewed...
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The University of California (UC) regents will be voting between two proposed tuition models soon, but it’s hard to say when. Though the vote was originally scheduled for Jan. 22, 2020, the regents were forced to push it back due to their failure to post details regarding the...
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The world was shocked to hear that beloved basketball player Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others passed away in a tragic helicopter accident on Sunday, Jan. 26. TMZ, one of the first media outlets to report on the story, has been chastised for reporting the news...
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The 2019 novel coronavirus, or 2019-nCoV, spread throughout the Chinese city of Wuhan in December of 2019 in the form of a respiratory illness. The illnesses caused by the coronavirus range in severity, with some cases being as benign as the common cold, and others more extreme, resulting in...
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The Super Bowl has come and gone again, which means the average American sat around and watched roughly two hours of advertisements from some of the biggest corporations in America; that is, the corporations that could afford the $5 million price tag of a 30 second spot during the big...
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In the age of information, it is harder than ever to discern fact from conjecture. Seeing as even the most unassuming issues can be blown out of proportion by the internet, it's hardly surprising that in times of crisis an already dangerous situation can be exacerbated by conspiracy theorists...
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Jeanine Cummins’ novel, “American Dirt,” was sent to bookstores across the country with an editor’s note that spoke about how fervently Cummins wished to “give these people (the faceless brown mass at the Mexican border) a face.” Executive Vice President and Publisher Amy Einhorn attempted to give Cummins, who is...
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Planters took to Twitter on Wednesday, Jan. 22 to announce that their longtime mascot Mr. Peanut had passed away. It was revealed in their recent pregame Super Bowl commercial that the 104-year-old peanut sacrificed his life to save his friends when their car swerved into a canyon and left them...
The 2020 Oscar nominations were released this January, and they’re pretty much exactly what everyone has come to expect. To nobody’s surprise, films like Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” both received Best Picture nominations, and, perhaps a little more surprisingly, Todd Phillips’ “Joker” was nominated for a total of 11 Academy...
Michelle Carter, the woman convicted of convincing her boyfriend Conrad Roy to take his own life, has been released from her sentence of 15 months with no parole on account of good behavior. A white woman who murdered another human being had a lesser sentence than a person of color (POC) received for selling marijuana. This decision is an...