Universal Income programs became popular during Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign, who promised to give each American adult a “freedom dividend” of $1,000 a month. While interest in Yang’s presidential campaign ended early, the interest on guaranteed income program only grew, both, locally and nationally. These conversations promoting Guaranteed Income have…

Since 2005, when University of California, Merced opened, the number of undergraduate freshman applications for admission to the UC system has almost tripled from 76,508 to 203,700. In the same period, the number of transfer applicants nearly doubled from 24,439 to 46,155. More than half of the rise in applications…

Ross Laylock passed away of AIDS in January 1991. His partner, the artist Felix Gonzales-Torres, memorialized Ross with the piece Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.). The exhibit consists of a pile of 175 pounds of wrapped candy. The 175 pounds represent approximately the weight that Ross was when he…

Virgil, the classical Roman poet, recounts Aeneas’s story, the Trojan hero who, after the destruction of Troy, migrated to the banks of the Tiber to found what eventually became the Roman Empire. Virgil’s poem, the Aeneid, emphasizes that Rome was founded over traditional roman values: persistence, self-denial, and obedience to…

Abelardo Morel’s photograph “A Tale of Two Cities” confounds the reader by juxtaposing words written from left to right with words written from right to left. While the more positive messages from Dickens’ novel are written in the sinistrodextral such as “it was the season of hope”, the dextrosinistral messages…