I struggle to find a more tired rhetoric than that which promotes the United States as having “prevailed” over other countries as a result of its extraordinary work ethic. Read more...

Since the early 1960s, public higher education in California has operated under the “Master Plan,” which divides responsibilities among the University of California, California State University system and community colleges. Read more...

“The United States has no use for Black History Month.” The simple ignorance of this statement justifies the existence of Black History Month today. Garin Hovannisian’s misguided column, “Black History Month divides present world,” (Feb. Read more...

President Bush’s newly released federal budget proposal for 2005 calls for increased funding for Pell Grants: scholarships awarded by the federal government to financially disadvantaged college students. Read more...

Last Thursday I woke up to find a parking ticket on my car’s windshield, something not too uncommon in our cramped Westwood. But what was remarkable was that I was parked in my own driveway. Read more...

The Democratic Party is in trouble. Sen. John Kerry has collected more votes than Howard Dean in every primary so far, including his latest victories in Nevada and Washington, D.C. Read more...

George Orwell should have been at the Constitutional convention because, according to Garin Hovannisian in “Patriot Act protects citizens” (Feb. 4), when our founding fathers conceived a nation built upon the ideals of individual liberty and free will, they were obviously thinking with his book “1984” in mind. Read more...