On the night of Oct. 17, my family and I, along with thousands of Porter Ranch residents, were startled into wakefulness by the acrid scent of the thick smoke which had begun to shroud the sky. Just a few hours later, my mother answered the door to find police...
The World War II-era United States was shaken to its core on Feb. 19, 1942 when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forced relocation and internment of thousands of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Such camps, a notable...
A few weeks ago, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill No. 730 (AB 730), which would prohibit the distribution of “materially deceptive audio or visual media” of candidates with the intent to damage that candidate’s reputation until 2023. ...
American citizens pay a higher cost for health care than those of any other country, largely due to obscure regulations that essentially grant hospitals the power to arbitrarily charge emergency room patients. In the case of an emergency, patients are told by health...
On Feb. 24, U.S. District Judge Gray Miller ruled that it is unconstitutional to require only men to register for the draft, declaring that exempting women from the requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause. Though the decision could...
Today’s teens live in an age in which technology and the internet are readily accessible, which means that remaining connected is fairly simple. Due to the availability of various apps created specifically for mobile phones, teens are able to post about intimate...
Americans are more apprehensive of terrorism now than in any of the years since Sept. 11, 2001, according to a December 2016 CBS poll. Since then, events such as the 2015 Paris attacks and the 2016 Orlando shootings have only escalated this fear. This fear has even...
In the last decade alone, hundreds of single-sex educational institutions have appeared in the U.S., touted as a viable solution to a wide array of student failures ranging from truancy to substandard test scores. The support for such schools is based upon the idea...
Last year, the Los Angeles Times boldly declared, “LA City Council presses ahead with plan for homeless shelters.” The plan in question, which was touted by Mayor Eric Garcetti, was to set up more emergency shelters for homeless individuals across the city, a...
In 1931, 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, one of the first female pitchers in professional baseball history, struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig during an exhibition game. In the 1920s and early 1950s, players like Lizzie Murphy and Mamie “Peanut” Johnson made...
