Tag: politics
Highlander Newsroom 01/28/15
This week in the Highlander Newsroom, we talk about the plans for a new commuter and transfer student lounge on campus, criticize people's food...
Can we stop writing laws so ineffectually they become useless?
Two years ago, Californians overwhelmingly voted Proposition 35, the Californians Against Sexual Exploitation (CASE) Act, into law, but the Ninth Circuit of Appeals on...
Turkeygate: Defending the Obama girls against slut-shaming
The latest social media scandal, fondly dubbed “Turkeygate” by the media, has hinged on the way that Malia and Sasha Obama are supposed to...
President Obama: More accomplished than you think
Turn on CNN, Fox News or MSNBC and there will be umpteen talking heads and pundits shouting about how much of a failed and...
And then they came for the Baha’is…
Martin Niemoller, esteemed Lutheran pastor and valiant critic of Nazi German oppression, was made popular through his post-World War II statement, “First they came...
Parties campaigning the right way
With the UCR campus being covered in posters and flyers distributed by the hundreds these recent months, it is apparent that the ASUCR elections...
Editorial: The Highlander’s ASUCR Endorsements
This week, UCR students will choose their future.
Elections to select those who will make up the 2014-2015 ASUCR senate are now underway. Over 60...
Economic sanctions by US, allies, is the safest route to fight...
Putin’s recent gains in Crimea are bad news for everybody — some are even calling this the beginning of another Cold War between Russia...
Letter to the Editor: ASUCR presidential debate
Hello fellow Highlanders! I am writing this letter to the editor because of what I saw that occurred during the Presidential debates last week....
The discreet charm of the “stupid party”
During this year’s CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) last March, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, billed as the savior of the Republican Party by Time...