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Women on Trump’s cabinet keep dropping like flies — why?

Anyone keeping up with the Trump administration must be familiar with one name: Karoline Leavitt. Leavitt has become one of its most recognizable faces...

Paparazzi shouldn’t have the right to stalk

Paparazzi are a plague to privacy. In today’s world, they fuel cheesy tabloid culture by taking pictures of the famous in borderline aggressive ways....

Timely, timeless and tailored: The fashion language of influencer weddings

Wedding bells and ringtones have rung over the past week as influencers have tied the knot in very public ways. From Paige Lorenze and...

The UN is a bad joke with no punchline. 

In the midst of the Second World War, the Allied Powers created the United Nations (UN) — a global peacekeeping organization dedicated to preventing...

Skinny is back, but whose fault is it?

Check the comments of any recent Ariana Grande post. Between discussions about her new music and the many fans complimenting her makeup, there’s one...

Political spending shouldn’t be protected as free speech

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) made a few rulings in late June , from transgender athletes in sports to birthright citizenship....

Democrats need to listen to their own voters

“Vote Blue no Matter Who” has become one of the Democratic Party’s defining slogans, but recent primary elections suggest that Democratic voters want more...

The need for more youth-centric online spaces

Poptropica. Club Penguin. Webkinz. These were the online spaces that defined childhood in the early 21st century. These digital spaces were designed for younger...

Movies aren’t billion dollar lottery tickets

Hollywood has a multi-billion dollar problem: budget control. Over the past few years, there has been an influx of disappointing entertainment that is upsetting audiences....

Feed-ing into propaganda: The effects of memetic warfare

The face of propaganda shifts as times change, and governments have always manipulated the media to achieve their own goals. During World War II,...

Should standardized testing come back to UC admissions?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of California unanimously agreed to abolish the testing requirement, as high school students could no longer safely take...

Tax incentives are working for California’s film industry

California’s film and television industry has struggled mightily over the past five years. COVID-19 forced the world to stay home and away from theatres....

24/7 Denny’s on campus? It’d be a Grand Slam

Picture this: it’s three in the morning during finals week. You’ve been studying for eight hours. Your stress is peaking. You doomscroll to suppress...

Five Reasons Why You Should Learn How to Drive in Irvine

How else will you almost run people over on Ring Road? Or nearly scrape another car at intersections? Or nearly smash the back of your car while backing up through seven different spaces, to snag that one parking spot at the very end of the road, without alerting any other drivers by, say, honking or turning your blinkers on?

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