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Superdelegates threaten election integrity

Superdelegates threaten election integrity

Jeremy Fu April 28, 2016

Donald Trump has been branded with multiple monikers over the past election cycle and the hotel magnate, skyscraper builder, country club owner and plane flying billionaire has never ceased to please the...

Outrage over Panama Papers unwarranted

Outrage over Panama Papers unwarranted

Peter Maroulis April 28, 2016

Everybody’s probably heard about the Panama Papers leak, but what most people probably have not heard is that these supposedly incriminating documents are completely innocuous (and just about worthless)....

Liang case evidences scapegoating of minority officers

Liang case evidences scapegoating of minority officers

Ashley Zhang March 18, 2016

July 17, 2014 — white New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Daniel Pantaleo kills African-American Eric Garner. Garner passes away from an illegal chokehold after repeating the now famous phrase,...

History curricula should align with elections

History curricula should align with elections

Anant Marur March 16, 2016

With presidential candidates like Donald Trump seizing control of the nation’s politics, educating the masses is more important than ever. In the United States, an alleged paragon of democracy, voter...

Sanders’ promise of free college tuition will backfire

Sanders’ promise of free college tuition will backfire

Claire Dennis March 16, 2016

Over the past several months leading up to November’s presidential election, millions of millennials have been “feeling the Bern.” It seems as though the elderly self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist...

Imminent correction in technology sector will shock Silicon Valley greatly

Imminent correction in technology sector will shock Silicon Valley greatly

Kate DeAndre March 16, 2016

Private technology equity in Silicon Valley has experienced unprecedented and uncontrolled growth in past years, resulting in a current correction in valuations as growth slows. This issue may lead to...

Media should neither celebrate nor condemn women’s bodies

Media should neither celebrate nor condemn women’s bodies

Jessica Wong March 16, 2016

Recently, countless commercial brands and advertisers have received harsh criticism for promoting the “thin ideal” — the presentation of slim female models as the norm. Such advertisements implicitly...

Paly should offer driver’s ed elective for sophomore students

Paly should offer driver’s ed elective for sophomore students

Grace Kitayama February 25, 2016

One of the highlights of becoming a teenager is getting a driver’s license. For many students, however, driving has become more than simply a perk of turning 16; taking the wheel is now a basic skill...

Paly should present more options for CTE and VAPA classes

Paly should present more options for CTE and VAPA classes

Bethany Shiang February 25, 2016

Across most student transcripts, core classes spanning Math, English, Science and Social Science will arise as commonalities. However, these transcripts are diversified with more specified classes that...

Scalia’s death & perversion of the constitution

Scalia’s death & perversion of the constitution

Peter Maroulis February 25, 2016

America was built on a foundation of democracy 238 years ago; today, the country is in somewhat of a midlife crisis. With the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative judge on the...

Big and small money threaten political integrity

Big and small money threaten political integrity

Avi Tachna-Fram February 25, 2016

In the past four years since the Citizens United case, the media and the public have carefully analyzed and studied the effects big money, donations to a candidate over $200, have had on politics. However,...

Apple compliance important step to fight terrorism

Apple compliance important step to fight terrorism

Gillian Robins February 24, 2016

Today Apple will give its official response to the Justice Department’s motion to comply with the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) in decrypting the iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook. Farook was one...

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