It’s that time of the year again. You’re ready to pull your hair out because there are 13 different classes you could take to fulfill a requirement you don’t really care about fulfilling, 27 different professors, 62 teaching assistants, and no way to know which combination is going to be at all palatable for the next 10 weeks of your life. Read more...

You can’t always get exactly what you want. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Simple enough to make it into one of the world’s best rock songs, and yet it is a concept that many in this blessed and prosperous country seem unable or unwilling to grasp. Read more...

Monday’s Supreme Court decision allowing renewed affirmative action in higher education has produced more questions than answers. What percentage of one’s heritage must be minority to qualify for racial preferences? Read more...

Having destroyed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs, the United States and the international community must now focus on a problem that could very well be even more threatening to the stability of the Middle East: the prospect of a nuclear Iran. Read more...

High school is over and now it’s time to make the big decisions. Obviously, your first important one has already been made ““ which college to attend. Read more...

Long-distance relationships tend to be a bit like baby sea turtles ““ many thousands are conceived, hundreds come to life, but an astonishingly small percentage of them actually survive. Read more...

Welcome to UCLA! You are about to begin one of the most important, most challenging, most exciting times of your entire life. During the next few years, most of you will transition from the last days of the relatively confined, somewhat predictable world of adolescence into the wide open, unpredictable world of the rest of your life. Read more...