“Innocent until proven guilty” is woven into our country’s Constitution. But California’s bail system fixes an exorbitant and discriminatory price tag on the right to be treated as innocent. In practice, “innocent until proven guilty, if you have the money,” is more accurate. The bail...

Chandra Bozelko spent over six years at York Correctional Institution in Niantic, Connecticut. During her time at the facility, each cell was given five pads per week to share between two inmates. This allows for only one change a day in an average cycle, instead...

The U.S. Census, already riddled with inaccuracy due to undercounting of immigrant, inner-city and houseless communities, stands to have its data further tainted in 2020. A revoltingly partisan directive on the part of the current administration requested that the U.S. Census Bureau add questions about...

“Thoughts and prayers.” “Thoughts and prayers.” “You have my thoughts and prayers.” Last week, Thom Tillis, U.S. Senator for North Carolina, tweeted “Tragic news out of Florida. Please keep the victims, their families, first responders and the community in your thoughts and prayers.” We want...

Congress is turning 46 million people away from access to healthy food while they sit on their privileged pedestal in D.C. debating legislation that perpetuates stigma around food insecurity. The Trump administration’s projected 2019 fiscal budget proposes a 30 percent funding rollback for the Supplemental...

It has been five months since the waves of tropical hurricanes devastated southern states and U.S. territories in the Caribbean Sea. For weeks, push notifications trafficked the cell phones of millions, each carrying bleak updates of death tolls, desperate supply needs and more storms yet...

In a single day, a farmworker can spend 12 hours bent over, pausing only to lift buckets of produce that weigh up to 40 pounds in the blistering sun, often not making enough money to break through the poverty income threshold. Migrant and seasonal farmworkers...

Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) throughout the UC system are not equipped to meet the mental health needs of students, and the UC itself is to blame. Three in five students nationwide are burdened by anxiety, and around one in four students report it severely...

The rise of the #MeToo movement has amplified the voices of the historically silenced. It has seized the microphone from the powerful and passed it to the previously powerless, providing a long-overdue platform for survivors of sexual abuse. One critical voice, however, is still inaudible:...

As the three-day government shutdown comes to an end, relief washes over the Trump administration and Senate members — but hundreds of thousands of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients are yet again put on the backburner. At midnight on Jan. 19, government operations...