Jon Wong

That said, the last few weeks in the 2012 Republican presidential primary has been, for a lack of a better term, turbulent.

One of the largest applause lines in the State of the Union was the moment when President Obama mentioned his success in repealing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which barred gay and lesbian soldiers from serving openly. The extended standing ovation for the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is not particularly surprising, given that it was one of Obama’s signature accomplishments, one of many that happened during last December’s lame duck session.

To the average American, Rand Paul’s sudden emergence into the national spotlight has been quite dramatic. The news that a little-known Republican senatorial candidate...

Judging by the dozen or so lawsuits filed by state attorney generals across the country against the recently passed health care reform bill and...

Last week, a large number of UCI students, like many others across the UC system, came out to protest massive cuts to public education...

The confetti and balloons have dropped and the Republicans have drained the last of their celebratory champagne. From Tuesday’s Massachusetts election results it would...

There’s a bill that has received increased attention from the American news media lately, and it isn’t about health care reform. In fact, it...

If you’re a progressive activist, last Tuesday’s election results were, to put it mildly, crushing. Of the four big races receiving major national attention, three of them were clean victories for conservatives: Virginia’s gubernatorial election, New Jersey’s gubernatorial election, and Maine’s Question 1, a measure to overturn Maine’s newly passed same-sex marriage law. While progressives and Democrats could downplay the results in Virginia and New Jersey (Creigh Deeds was a very flawed candidate and Jon Corzine has suffered from numerous ethical and economic issues), the results in Maine could not be ignored.

EQUALITY: Jon Wong recounts the cross-generational progress shown in LGBT marches in Washington DC.

Despite the passage of Proposition 8 in Nov. 2008 and California’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of Proposition 8 in June, the battle for marriage in California is not over yet. Another fight over same-sex marriage is expected, and both sides are already preparing for the next round.