Opinion

If the Mexican government were sending suicide bombers across the border to blow up buses and nightclubs, I would hope that the American government would build a wall to keep them out. In my opinion, that is not a racist policy.

Research on early childhood development has consistently yielded results that illustrate the benefits of a preschool and kindergarten education.

Budget cuts, outdated textbooks and dangerously high high school drop-out rates are just some of the reasons why Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has proposed a restructuring of Los Angeles Unified schools.

Comparatively speaking, it's good to be gay in California. For instance, last year's bill approving gay marriage passed in the state legislature and didn't get scrapped by the lack of blue-blooded liberals in Sacramento; it was Gov. Schwarzenneger's ambig

Yossi Olmert made his extremist views against the Palestinian people and the nation of Iran clear on May 17 during a talk entitled 'Israel: A Discussion of Recent Events'.

I've done my time. In order to avoid taking a foreign language in college, I took three years of French in high school. Three years in a class taught by a phlegmatic, 70-year-old woman who told us how great the war in Iraq was because her husband was an

It's kind of like when you go back to your hometown and you find out that the city put up a shopping mall where the playground you used to frequent when you were a kid used to be.

The Associated Students of UC Irvine manipulated votes in last month's student election in an effort to get their student fee initiatives passed despite widespread opposition.

Attempts on university campuses to silence opposition to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the rise of anti-Arab and anti-immigrant racism, to the unlawful detention and torture of Muslims and other prisoners of war, to murderous economic policies and

The word 'holocaust' stirs up emotions among people all over the world for many different reasons. The word 'genocide,' which most people agree the Holocaust was, is defined as 'the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, polit

Monday, May 15 marks the 58th anniversary of the creation of the apartheid state of Israel.

With the United States, especially California, falling behind in education, you would think that the vast majority of the population would be eager to ensure that students are graduating high school with a basic understanding of what they learned in ninth