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...

“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...

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...

Daily Bruin: What is the basic mission of the Council on American Islamic Relations and what is your role in the organization? Hussam Ayloush: CAIR is one of the largest Muslim advocacy groups in the United States today. Read more...

With his victories this week in Virginia and Tennessee, the Kerry Express rumbles on toward the inevitable. John Kerry’s main rivals, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and Sen. Read more...