A Los Angeles city council member is seeking to exempt California’s largest city from a state law permitting the construction of more housing. His reason: backyards. Read more...

Sometimes you have to walk away. The University of California announced last week it is cutting ties with Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific publisher. The University will no longer be paying millions in subscription fees each year to get its campuses access to published work and the ability to share their research. Read more...

Students have seen it all: an undergraduate student government blithe to their concerns, an undergraduate student government unaware of their concerns and an undergraduate student government incapable of addressing their concerns. Read more...

It takes a lot of courage to read off your political resume to a group of kids and teenagers. Or maybe just a great deal of hubris. Read more...

This post was updated Feb. 25 at 4:36 p.m. Undergraduate representation in academia could have died by a thousand cuts. This year, though, it took only 20. Read more...

We all can admit Westwood Village has a relevancy problem. Empty storefronts lace the streets, and it’s hard to miss the vacancy notices straddling the sidewalk. Read more...