Capitalism needs moral defense It was nice to see Sara Triplett’s moral argument against minimum wage laws (“Raising minimum wage restricts worker, employer rights,” Jan. 9). Read more...

Sometimes, a single word can be the difference between freedom and prison. In the U.S., most people take free speech for granted, assuming that we can say almost anything without much risk of legal punishment. Read more...

Politicians everywhere have a new role model: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Please, ignore your disbelief and your urge to laugh for just a moment. Yes, during this past year his term did bear an uncanny resemblance to a disaster. Read more...

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On MTV, a young girl with heavily lined eyes and markedly glossy lips is explaining to me why Yves St. Laurent is her clothing brand of choice ““ apparently because it’s lack of popularity makes it the most conspicuously elite label. Read more...

Winter break was going swimmingly until my mother picked the middle of a perfectly good day to teach me a life lesson by wrapping herself in a blanket. Read more...

It’s been a very merry Christmas for the UC Board of Regents. On Dec. 21, 2005 the limited liability corporation they formed with Bechtel National, BWX Technologies and Washington Group International was awarded the contract to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory for a seven-year term. Read more...