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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It is a conflict seldom talked about in the Western hemisphere and even less so in the United States.  While we often pride ourselves in thinking that colonialism and the oppression of one people by another are things of the past, a remote desert territory in North Africa reminds us that this is yet to [...]

Cartoon by Carlos Latuff On the evening of Sunday October 9th, clashes between protestors and the Egyptian army left at least 36 dead and over 300 injured, according to Egypt’s health ministry. Earlier Sunday, approximately 200 marched from Shuobra, a large neighborhood on the outskirts of the city, toward downtown Cairo. Although there are variant [...]

In April 2010 Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the New START nuclear arms control treaty. The treaty, ratified and entered into force this past February, reduced both countries’ levels of deployed nuclear weapons to numbers not seen since the 1950s. However, American support for the treaty was not universal – despite endorsements [...]

Many in Indian Country are painfully aware of the circus performance that is this summer’s Principal Chief election for the largest federally recognized tribe in the U.S., the Cherokee Nation. This election season; however, has brought to the surface a plethora of social and economic issues from same-sex marriage, health care, citizenship of the descendants [...]

By Alex Shams The Arab Spring electrified progressives around the world in a revolutionary momentum unlike any we have witnessed in a generation. Images of square after Arab square filled to the brim with protesters calling for democratic reforms have helped provide those of us struggling to maintain our faith in “people power” with a [...]