San Diego, CA, March 14, 2013 — After a four year campaign, UCSD’s undergraduate student government has passed a resolution urging the University of California, San Diego to cease its investments in companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The bill, which was cosponsored by multiple student government members, was similar [...]

“It’s not every day we get to paint a roof in Midtown,” said Special Projects Manager for the New York City Service Wendy Dessy to a group of volunteers assembled in the basement of the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center. As she distributed buckets filled with paintbrushes and gloves, an audible hum of [...]

Prior to his dropout from the University of Colorado, Aurora theater-shooter James Holmes had been seeing a mental health specialist at the University. However, school specialists, trained mostly to treat academic anxiety, were ill equipped to address Holmes’s condition. New evidence indicates he may have also called his psychiatrist just minutes before he entered the [...]

By Paul Tae Yang In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been helping my friend on some search engine optimization (SEO) work for WiserEarth, a non-profit dedicated to fostering collaboration among individuals from other non-profits and government and civic organizations around the world. WiserEarth does this through its online social network platform at Wiser.org. After [...]

Few foresaw the direction that the Supreme Court would take the decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as PPACA or Obamacare. Immediately after the decision, public focus was still on the retention of the individual mandate. Though the Court’s change in the Medicaid expansion was unexpected, Health and Human Services [...]

As I write this, a single piece of legislation with the greatest potential to improve America’s health sits in limbo in our nation’s capital. As soon as a few weeks from today, the government will release its final decision on a bill with roots in the beginning of the 20th century. Contrary to popular opinion, [...]

On Saturday, Spain’s Finance Minister Luis de Guindos announced that, in an emergency meeting, Eurozone and other European financial leaders agreed to a €100 billion bailout of private Spanish banks. While Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner rallied to sing the plan’s praises, German Chancellor [...]

A new law passed in Saudi Arabia will give women the right to vote without the approval of her male guardian (normally a father or husband). Saudi women only recently gained suffrage rights, and this recent legislation does away with the additional approval restrictions. The first election where women may vote without male guardian approval [...]

“If I die, post these to my Facebook,” Moustafa Salah, age 22, said half-jokingly as I photographed him in a fifth-story apartment one block from Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo. He and four friends prepared for their return to the battle being waged below between Egypt’s Central Security Forces (CSF) and unarmed protesters, which has [...]

Whether you’re registered to vote Democrat, Republican, Independent, or not at all, you’ve probably tuned into some of the recent coverage of the GOP debates. The debates, which give us a glimpse into the brains (or lack thereof) behind the potential candidates for the next United States presidency, have become a new source of comedy [...]