Polk is a retired government lawyer in Southern California. He graduated from Yale Law School and is a member of the UCLA Alumni Association. By Sam Polk Now that the election has been decided by judicial fiat instead of counting all the votes, it has taught us three painful lessons: the separation of powers and checks and balances of the founders has broken down because the Supreme Court has clearly become partisan; the archaic electoral college has lost its purpose and must go; we need a single, uniform national election system. Read more...

Barr is an organizer and campaign coordinator for UCLA CALPIRG. By Kathleen Barr President Clinton announced a historic preservation plan on Friday that will protect 60 million acres of our national forests from further road-building, logging, mining and other destructive activities. Read more...

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Perng is a fourth-year political science student and executive director of the Bruin Republicans. By Simon Perng “With the inauguration of President-elect George Walker Bush, most Americans can now anticipate a new era of government, rooted in civility, cooperation and bipartisanship.” As if you haven’t heard this before. Read more...

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Watson is a professor of English at UCLA. He can be reached at [email protected]. By Robert N. Watson Behind by over half a million votes nationwide, behind (according to independent non-partisan estimates) by over 20,000 votes in Florida if the election had been properly run there, behind (it is increasingly clear) in even the official Florida count if his unscrupulous handlers hadn’t blocked one for five weeks, George W. Read more...

Angelucci is a law student and the co-founder of MENS (Men Enabling New Solutions). He invites comments at [email protected]. By Marc Angelucci As we break our new year resolutions regarding our health long before Superbowl Sunday, it sometimes helps to know others are also breaking them with regard to their own health. Read more...