Amid the clamor of Sen. Brown’s stunning upset in Massachusetts against Martha Coakley, the Supreme Court issued their judgment of the landmark case Citizens United v. FEC. The 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act, better …

Republican Scott Brown’s recent victory for the Massachusetts senatorial seat left vacant after Ted Kennedy’s death has excited many conservatives for good reason. After years of being shunned by the American majority, it seems like …

George Lakoff has a way with words. The UC Berkeley linguistics professor has spent a great deal of his career commenting on the ways that conservatives have used rhetoric to frame the political landscape to …

As UC Berkeley students enjoyed their winter breaks, they may have noticed in their inboxes a curious e-mail from Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. Most probably deleted it without reading. A shame — it was more delightful …

The Daily Californian’s front-page story on January 25 was on crime in and around the UC Berkeley campus. They report that since a peak in 2006, robberies around the “campus area” had been steadily declining, …

On 26 and 27 October 2009, the focus of the debate over abortion came to rest at UC Berkeley. In an unprecedented move, a monolithic display consisting of graphic images of aborted human fetuses was …

It seems the public school system, for all its supposed value as a driver of economic progress, has nevertheless failed in instilling students with the ability to make practical, ethical, or legal judgments. Over three …

The American political scene has been in turmoil over the past few months as the Democrat-controlled Congress addresses health care. The system, in general, has some very real problems that go unaddressed amid the din …

Since February of 2009, a fight has been brewing in Sacramento and across the state over the matter of SB 572, a bill which seeks to establish an annual commemoration of the nation’s first openly …

With California’s legislature chronically unable to balance the budget, the state has been financing itself largely through bond sales. Of course, the legislature’s poor fiscal policies and stifling economic regulations ensure that future generations will …