Actress Busy Philipps shared a deeply personal experience on her show Busy Tonight. After hearing that Georgia passed a new law putting new restrictions on abortions, Busy shared that she, at age 15, had an abortion. She continued to talk about how the women who are in this difficult position should be the ones to choose what’s best for...
On May 6, National Security Advisor John Bolton announced that the United States military was sending an aircraft carrier along with several other offensive destroyers into the Persian Gulf to “warn” Iran about its behavior and ambitions in the Middle East. The decision comes immediately after the Trump administration escalated additional sanctions on Iran’s manufacturing exports and Secretary of...
Nationwide, higher education institutions are navigating a period of uncertainty around the laws that govern our response to sexual harassment, which includes sexual violence. Understandably, the UC community is concerned. As UC’s Systemwide Title IX Director, I want to allay any confusion or fear. I write to explain how some recent developments affect UC, including proposed federal regulations and...
On Easter Sunday, April 21, Sri Lanka suffered a devastating series of mass bombings that resulted in almost 300 casualties, including many international citizens as well. The attacks were carried out by a domestic radical Islamist terrorist organization with ties to ISIS, who later claimed responsibility and claimed that the attack was “retaliation for the Christchurch massacre,” which occurred...
The 2016 presidential election brought with it a cascade of fake news to the popular social media site Facebook, and in an effort to crack down on the spread of non-factual information on their site, Facebook has decided to partner with fact-checking services. As of April 17, 2019, one such publisher is Check Your Fact, a fact-checking news site...
Modernity has given birth to the “college experience,” a notion that an undergraduate degree encompasses more than just tedious coursework. It is an idea that college students receive an experience that allows them to discover their interests and sets them on a path of discovery. College is now viewed as a place made up of many different people, clubs...
The running pool of candidates on the Democratic tickets reflects the fracturization within the American left. It may feel to many like a race between progressives and moderates, identity and policy and even rhetoric and action. It is clear that in order to secure the nomination, Democrats must find a voice based on practical solutions to current issues as...
Climate change is the most important issue of our time. This is a fact that is becoming more and more difficult to ignore every year. California, in particular, has been plagued by droughts and frequent wildfires recently. If society hopes to stop the worst impacts of climate change, people need to take strong action today. That means making the...
Ever since former Vice President Joe Biden’s entrance into the 2020 Democratic primaries on April 25, the field has broken historical records, featuring the largest amount of candidates in American history, the greatest number of women candidates and non-white candidates and the first openly gay candidate as well. Democrats now face the daunting task of choosing between a whopping...
As you enter the HUB area, you are presented with many different dining choices. There’s Panda Express, Chronic Taco, Hibachi-San, MOD Pizza and, not too far away, you can find Subway and the Habit. The fast food restaurants offer a number of different choices but lack healthy options. As a UCR student, the predicament of not knowing what to...