During presidential campaigns we often forget that, despite acting to the contrary, America is not the center of the world. As a superpower — I would argue imperial power — the U.S. values the liv...
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Frustrating. That is how I would describe last week’s “debate.” Let’s start with the president. Historically speaking, incumbents typically underperform in the first of the debates for two rea...
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Rejoice! The NFL’s referee lockout has ended! But remember there was another strike, one that will affect our lives as students and future parents more directly — the Chicago Teachers Union strike...
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In the European Debt Crisis’s latest development, Italy is attempting to reshape its government in the wake of its massive national debt. UCSB political science Professor Benjamin Cohen spoke to the...
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The United Nations declared Monday the symbolic date the human populace reached seven billion, with an infant in Manila, Philippines claiming the landmark birth. Official acceptance of the world popul...
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Former Libyan head of state Muammar Gaddafi was killed under uncertain circumstances near his hometown of Sirte last Thursday. Christopher McAuley, an associate professor of black studies, spoke to th...
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Santa Barbara City Council candidates met with a coalition of regional youth groups to discuss high school students’ political concerns on Monday night at the Louise Lowry Davis Center. The Future L...
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Rescue Education California is spearheading a campaign to pass a public referendum to directly fund the state’s public education system with revenue from a severance tax on oil and gas companies ope...
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Governor Jerry Brown vetoed State Senate Bill 185 earlier this month on the grounds that it would go against the precedent set by Proposition 209, a related public referendum passed in 1996. If passed...
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Since June, students and professors in Chile have boycotted their classes to protest the country’s profit-driven education system, preventing many people from pursuing degrees and leaving many other...
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CSB professor of communication Walid Afifi spoke to the Daily Nexus about the implications of the Palestinian bid for statehood as part of a new weekly column that allows professors to share their p...
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While yesterday marked a day of advocacy at 10 UC campuses for the approval of a proposed state measure that would authorize public universities to consider factors such as gender and race in the coll...
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Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons workers voted to ratify a new labor contract this past Sunday, narrowly avoiding a possibly detrimental strike. Labor unions and representatives from the supermarkets’ pa...
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UCSB Marine Science Institute’s research professor of oceanography Uta Passow and her team received a $22.5 million grant from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative to continue research on the Deep...
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The Santa Barbara City Council unanimously passed a motion on Tuesday endorsing the consolidation of regional homeless advisory committees with several nonprofit organizations in an effort to minimize...
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“dusty rusty crusty musty ass california hills”
“frowning in plaid (haunted radios, bird bones + anthropomorphized wind)”
“warming my hands on bridges i’ve burnt”
“songs that make me see god”
“My Playlist #236”
“classy wine moment and intellectual conversation”
“90s heroin chic model off duty”
“tweet tweet bird emoji map emoji”
“not my circus, not my monkeys”
“a grave is probably cheaper than an apartment”
“ATE THESE BITCHES LEFT NO CRUMBS / DID IT IN DESIGNER PUMPS”
